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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, Richard Armitage, V.E. Schwab
- Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, read by Richard Armitage with Neil Gaiman and an introduction by V E Schwab.
The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic.
‘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
Critic reviews
'Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human' (BERNARDINE EVARISTO)
'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being' (DAVID MITCHELL)
'A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' (MADELINE MILLER)
'Purely joyful reading' (NAOMI ALDERMAN)
'Admirably inventive, frequently delightful' (MICHEL FABER)