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The international bestseller, finally in paperback!Time magazine's #1 book of the year 11 weeks and counting on the New York Times bestseller list Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Longlisted for the Booker prize A Book Sense pick People Top Ten Books of the year Salon.com Top Ten of 2004 New York Times Notable Books of the Year Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction 2004 Nancy Pearl's Top 12 Books of 2004 Washington Post Book World Best of 2004 San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2004 Chicago Tribune Best of 2004 Seattle Times 25 Best Books of 2004 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top 12 Books of 2004 Village Voice "Top Shelf" Raleigh News & Observer Best of 2004 Rocky Mountain News critics' favorites of 2004 Kansas City Star 100 Noteworthy Books of 2004 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 10 Best Books of 2004 Hartford Courant Best Books of 2004 Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two very different magicians who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.
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Susanna Mary Clarke (born 1 November 1959) is an English author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) , a Hugo Award-winning alternative history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time. For the next decade, she published short stories from the Strange universe, but it was not until 2003 that Bloomsbury bought her manuscript and began work on its publication. The novel became a best-seller.Two years later, she published a collection of her short stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (2006) . Both Clarke's novel and her short stories are set in a magical England and written in a pastiche of the styles of 19th-century writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. While Strange focuses on the relationship of two men, Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell, the stories in Ladies focus on the power women gain through magic. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Patrick Nielsen Hayden from Brooklyn, New York (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
