Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Susannah Clarke's fantasy masterpiece of Regency-era magicians, faeries and madness with this sumptuous hardback collector's edition.
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab.
1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French.
Yet the cautious Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician. Young, handsome and daring, Jonathan Strange is his very antithesis. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men – which overwhelms that between England and France. And soon their own secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781526681553
Number of pages: 864
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human - BERNARDINE EVARISTO
This is a great huge long book that will change your life ... One of my all-time favourite books - ANN PATCHETT
A 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 MITCHELL
A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling - MADELINE MILLER
Clarke’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 ALDERMAN
Ravishing ... 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 FABER
Feels 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
A delightful romp through an alternative 19th-century England, where magic is real but not exactly glamorous. There's a brilliant balance between a rich, believable historical setting and a cleverly imagined... More
This has been one of those books I've intended to read for a long time and I finally did it! I am already a fan of Clarke's writing having read the exquisite Piranesi.
Set in the 1800's, Jonathan...
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Magic returns to an England in the depths of war with France. It is heralded in by two magicians. This story is a wonderful densely written fantasy story. It has rambling footnotes, it has Georgian politics, a... More
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