The Bishop Of Durham Attempts To Surrender The City

By (author) Clarke Susanna
Short description/annotation:
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic
Description:

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic

1110 A.D. The fairy host sweeps across the North of England and the city of Durham is under siege. Wearily the Bishop of Durham, Ranulf Flambard, prepares to surrender – something which proves far more difficult than he could have imagined.


His quest will lead him through a landscape of unco-operative rivers and enchanted forests to a New Castle on the banks of the River Tyne – where, with any luck, he will be received by a court of deceptive, would-be fairy queens, shape-shifting stags and a beautiful teenage Raven King.


A long-lost chapter in the lore of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City is an enchanting and enchanted adventure into the magic of medieval England.

Praise for Susanna Clarke:
‘Spellbinding’ Dua Lipa
‘A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling’ Madeline Miller
‘Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous’ Katherine Rundell

Review quote:
Praise for Susanna Clarke: ''Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human
Review quote:
What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being
Review quote:
Spellbinding
Review quote:
A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling
Review quote:
Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint
Review quote:
One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more
Review quote:
Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous
Review quote:
A treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered
Review quote:
Purely joyful reading
Review quote:
Utterly compelling – bewildering, intense, moving, shocking, combining a haunting fantasy with sharp insight
Biographical note:

Susanna Clarke’s debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has been published in more than thirty-four countries and has sold over 4 million copies worldwide. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004 and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won the 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. Clarke''s 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

Promotional headline:
From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic
Feature:
This giftable, exquisitely illustrated hardback short story, set in a corner of the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell universe, will be a treasure to Susanna Clarke fans old and new
Feature:
Exquisitely illustrated by Victoria Sawdon, this beautiful gift edition will delight fans of Ma