Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human – BERNARDINE EVARISTOThis is a great huge long book that will change your life … One of my all-time favourite books – ANN PATCHETTA modern masterpiece … It is that rare beast, a cult novel that is also a mainstream smash hit and continues to beguile its legions of readers to the present day … An indelible, fascinating story, one to lose oneself in for days, even weeks * SPECTATOR *What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being – DAVID MITCHELLA miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling – MADELINE MILLERClarke’s imagination is prodigious, her pacing masterly * NEW YORK TIMES *One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Full of epic sweep and intimate human drama … An imaginative treat * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Many books are to be read, and a few are meant to be lived in for weeks. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is of this last kind * WASHINGTON POST *Purely joyful reading – NAOMI ALDERMANRavishing … Combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece that rivals Tolkien * TIME *Admirably inventive, frequently delightful – MICHEL FABERFeels unduly classical and nostalgic and yet timeless at the very same time and it has, at the heart of it, that thing which every truly great novel needs: a brilliant story … I adored this book * GUARDIAN *A triumph of imaginative storytelling * IRISH TIMES *

Susanna Clarke’s debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Her second novel Piranesi was an international bestseller and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Derbyshire.