OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEShortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years ... Funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical' NEIL GAIMANThe year is 1806. centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country.Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell.So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.

Clarke's second novel Piranesi was published in Septemer 2020 and was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. It has won the Kitschies Red Tentacle Award, the British Book Awards Audiobook of the Year, been shortlisted for Costa Novel Award, the Women's Prize, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Prize, the RSL Encore Award, the British Science Fiction Association's Best Novel, the Bloggers Books Award, been a finalist for the Goodreads Fantasy Book of the Year and the Ray Bradbury Prize, and been longlisted for 2021 Booktube Prize