Shadow of Night
core novel 2012 All Souls Universe
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (278,074 ratings, collected 2026-09-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780670023486 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Shadow of Night (2012) is the second novel in Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, continuing directly from the events of the first book. Historian-turned-witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont use timewalking to travel back to sixteenth-century London, seeking a tutor who can help Diana control her awakening magical abilities and safe distance from enemies pursuing them in the present. There they move among the School of Night, a circle of scholars, spies, and freethinkers linked to Matthew's own past, while continuing their search for clues to the whereabouts of Ashmole 782, the palimpsest manuscript with mysterious writing hidden beneath a spell. Navigating Elizabethan court politics, espionage, and the complications of Matthew's old acquaintances and rivalries, the couple work to protect themselves and unravel the manuscript's origins before returning to their own time.
Where it sits
- Universe: All Souls Universe
- Series: All Souls Trilogy core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Deborah Harkness
Notes
- From the series record (All Souls Trilogy): Original trilogy; all three volumes were New York Times bestsellers.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series All Souls Trilogy: position 2 of 3: previous A Discovery of Witches (2011) · next The Book of Life (2014)
- Internal chronology, within All Souls Universe: position 2 of 5: previous A Discovery of Witches (2011) · next The Book of Life (2014)
Sources
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