Adapted from deborah darkness best selling trilogy of novels, series 1 follows brilliant historian diana bishop is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from oxford's bodleian library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire matthew clairmont.the second series of a discovery of witches sees matthew and diana hiding in time in the fascinating and treacherous world of elizabethan london here they must find a powerful witch to help diana master her magic and search for the elusive book of life. In the present day however, their enemies have not forgotten them.