LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
A very special book indeed, magical in all its senses, which has just won the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award for best book. Slow to get into and long, it is written in the style of the period in which it is set, Regency, which I felt added to its charm. It’s about magicians, different strands of magic, highly imaginative with many layers and intricate sub-plots and, despite the dusty language, is totally compelling. A highly intelligent alternative history which I urge you to read and become totally hooked. If you are interested click here to visit the publishers site.
Comparison: Charles Palliser, Glen David Gold, Iain Pears.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Synopsis
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E Schwab
Over 4 million copies sold
'The book I wish I'd written' R F Kuang
'Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous' Katherine Rundell
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…
'Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint' Guardian
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781526681553 |
| Publication date: |
12th September 2024 |
| Author: |
Susanna Clarke |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
896 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Historical Fiction
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Susanna Clarke Press Reviews
‘Full of spells, bad weather, statues that talk, haunted ballrooms and sinister gentlemen with thistledown hair … be enchanted! *****’ Elle
‘Brimming with cod-academic references and myths, pert drawing-room comedy and genuinely chilling fantasy, this will appeal to devotees of Sarah Waters as much as to Harry Potter fans’ Marie Claire
‘Pick up Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and start reading. It is, as befits a novel about two rival magicians, spellbinding … This is masterful, brilliantly paced storytelling. At its best, as when the barriers between Earth and faerie dissolve completely and she imagines what magic feels like, it is completely mesmerizing … prodigiously imagined, elegantly witty, superbly crafted’ Scotsman
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About Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959, the eldest daughter of a Methodist Minister. In 1990 she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, published by Bloomsbury in October 2004.
Susanna lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer Colin Greenland.
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