Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic, with an introduction by V E SchwabOver 4 million copies sold‘Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous’ Katherine Rundell ‘Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years’ Neil Gaiman'The book I wish I'd written' R F Kuang1806. 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

Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human, What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, Clarke’s imagination is prodigious, her pacing masterly, One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more

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.