Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader.

Today we are happy to have with us Deborah Harkness. Deborah a former Philadelphia native, graduate from Mount Holyoke, Northwestern and UC, Davis with her doctorate. She is renowned for her work as an historian of science and medicine. She has obviously studied alchemy, magic and the occult.

She’s published two works of non-fiction, but it is the All Souls Trilogy that probably brings you to this show, and perhaps, if I can convince her, a visit to our bookstore.

A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of life make up the trilogy and now she has embarked on another journey, primarily that of Marcus in her new book, Time’s Convert.

Oh and by the way, the trilogy will soon be a mini series that is scheduled for release, unless the date has been pushed back, this month.

Time’s Convert seems to be the first book (we’ll ask) of a second trilogy one which explores characters that may have seem to have been peripheral to All Souls, but now take center stage and develop into protagonists with stories trait and agendas we haven’t seen before (at least in sharp detail).

We learn a great deal more about time, maturity and love, along with a precis of about child rearing.

With that in mind, if you care to take note aof anything I say, I tend to remable,

Welcome Deborah and thanks so much for joining us today.

I like to start with covers and epigraphs and here are two perfect ways to begin. The cover is amazing. (book by its cover). The cover conveys love, time, place and a kind of longing and an arc of antiquity, much like your own studies.

And then the epigraph by Thomas Paine. His name and character are mentioned 82 times in this book. And the epigraph standing alone describes our times to a T. Was that meant to be?

What is it about Common Sense, as a woman of common sense and an historaian that brings this man to a book about Vampires, Daemons and witches?

ON to the book, cause that’s what we’re here for,

I know that you started this book about Matthew. What made you pivot.

What about the Father and Son dynamic.

ANd the course, to me the most fascinating aspect of the book is time. What are your feelings about time. Is it a construct of man so as to avoid all things happening at once, or is it this skein (as your portray) that weaves us into space AND time?

Is memory akin to time in any way?

The medieval and the modern

My bookstores logo and mascot is the Griffin. You can see it on our website.w

What do they do for a living?

Talk a little bit about your discoveries with regard to “raising the virtuous child”.

Shakespearan order from chaos. How do we, in these times, given the epigraph create order of what seems like chaos.

You know I have interviewed a lot of authors and when I ask them about our current situation they all agree, almost to a T. I have concluded that is because authors are bright.

Talk about how you equated, to some degree, the recent royal wedding and the motifs of the book.

TV show. Humbling.

Are the stories in your head ready to put down on paper. You know what’s going on with these people don’t you?