{"product_id":"piranesi-winner-of-the-womens-prize-2021-9781526622433","title":"Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE \u0026amp; MR NORRELL, ‘one of our greatest living authors’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMessages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e__________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being … \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite puzzle-box' \u003cb\u003eDAVID MITCHELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' \u003cb\u003eMADELINE MILLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Brilliantly singular’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery … This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' \u003cb\u003eERIN MORGENSTERN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Head-spinning … Fully imagined and richly evoked’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Pre-order now**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e – with an exquisite new package and an exclusive introduction by V E Schwab**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Buy \u003ci\u003eThe Wood at Midwinter\u003c\/i\u003e – a beautifully illustrated Christmas story from the queen of fantasy**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781526622433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.6(H)x12.8(L)x2(W)200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 200\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eSusanna Clarke's debut novel \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eFirst Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of Grace Adieu\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. \u003ci\u003ePiranesi \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Derbyshire.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eReminds us of fiction’s power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one * Guardian, Autumn highlights *\u003cbr\u003eI could have lived in the first hundred pages of \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e by Susanna Clarke forever.  It’s a dream of a novel -- Anthony Doerr * Observer, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eClarke’s fantastical parable of solitude, imagination, ambition and contentment is a spectacular piece of fiction, and the perfect reading accompaniment to a year like no other * Guardian, Best Fiction of 2020 *\u003cbr\u003eA startling novel of austere magical realism … Clarke affirmed herself as one of Britain’s most singular novelists * Daily Telegraph, Best Novels of 2020 *\u003cbr\u003eLike Hilary Mantel, Clarke made the very notion of genre seem quaint  ... \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is a tenebrous study in solitude … A remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a thriller …  Compelling … A fever dream - disorientating, engrossing, persistently strange … It burrows into the subconscious, throwing out puzzles long after the final page … Brilliantly singular\u003c\/p\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly peculiar … It subverts expectations throughout … Utterly otherworldly\u003c\/p\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA gently comic, thoroughly beguiling read … The ‘House’ - its upper rooms lost in clouds, its lower chambers drowned by the sea - will haunt my dreams * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eThe most curious confection … Blending elements of mythology and fantasy, with nods along the way to CS Lewis and Tolkien … Genuinely moving climax that throws open the doors of the halls in more ways than one * i paper *\u003cbr\u003eHer prowess as a stylist is undiminished … Piranesi’s naively observant voice also nods to the narrators of those Enlightenment parables of flawed Reason lost amid marvels and monsters – think Defoe’s Crusoe, Swift’s Gulliver, Voltaire’s Candide * The Arts Desk *\u003cbr\u003eClose to perfect ... Full of wonders and an infectious ecstasy ... Clarke has the same skill Flann O’Brien poured into \u003ci\u003eThe Third Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e for making insane worlds feel as solid as our own * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling fable about loneliness, imagination and memory * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and bewitchingly strange\u003c\/p\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel of exceptional beauty ... The cliché that this book is hard to put down is for once true; I can think of few recent books that keep the reader so passionately hungry to know what happens next and to understand the hints and guesses that appear in greater and greater profusion ... There is at the heart of her writing a rare capacity for the immediate: the stripped, wide-eyed descriptive simplicity of someone who, like her \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, has gone through some sort of barrier and brought back news. -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA novel to revisit - a house you can open again, with statues touched by quiet thoughts and strange tides ... To read \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is to be the labyrinth and the traveller in the labyrinth, which is poetry and prose * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost, and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls! -- MADELINE MILLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book that’s deliciously weird but meticulously constructed to achieve maximum suspense. Susanna Clarke doesn’t just write about magic; she channels it on to the page\u003c\/p\u003e * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling and transcendent ... Clarke's writing is clear, sharp - she can cleave your heart in a few short words ... The mystery of Piranesi unwinds at a tantalizing yet lightning-like pace - it's hard not to rush ahead, even when each sentence, each revelation makes you want to linger * NPR *\u003cbr\u003ePlunges deep into those forbidden fortresses from which the un-mad and mortal among us are forever barred ... The only possible conclusion is: Clarke is writing from experience ... With great effort, Clarke has un-unpicked her personality and returned to this world, our Earth, so that the rest of us might know her exquisite burden. Welcome back, Fairy Mistress, if only for a spell! We are grateful to you, oh yes, but we mourn you a little, too—that you must work so hard to be human.” * Wired *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtterly brain-mangling … A creepy, expertly managed crime story\u003c\/p\u003e * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eClose to perfect ... As a work of fiction, it’s spectacular; an irresistibly unspooling mystery set in a world of original strangeness, revealing a set of ideas that will stay lodged in your head long after you’ve finished reading * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eWhy don’t you trip on the new Susanna Clarke book if you want to get your mind bent but don’t much care for drugs? * New York Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA high-quality page-turner - even the most leisurely reader will probably finish it off in a day - but its chief pleasure is immersion in its strange and uncannily attractive setting ... A standout feat * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eCould \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e match the hype? I’m delighted to say it has, with Clarke’s singular wit and imagination still intact in a far more compressed yet still captivating tale you’ll want to delve into again right after you read its sublime last sentence * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eA short and beautiful novel that reads like a poem ... in its cumulative effect of expressing an emotion and state of being that is inexpressible. It’s a strange and lovely read * Buzzfeed *\u003cbr\u003eIn terms of invention and beauty, it’s a fitting heir to Clarke’s first book … Clarke deftly weaves together highbrow and lowbrow so Piranesi as reader is both symbol and story. To read Piranesi is to be the labyrinth and the traveler in the labyrinth, which is poetry and prose … The end of the novel doesn’t exactly provide justice, and closure is only provisional. Piranesi is a gentle man, and a gentle book. It wants to leave doors open for its characters and its readers … Piranesi is a novel to revisit - a house you can open again, with statues touched by quiet thoughts and strange tides * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. \u003ci\u003ePiranesi \u003c\/i\u003eis an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside\u003c\/p\u003e -- DAVID MITCHELL\u003cbr\u003eA wonder * Slate.com *\u003cbr\u003eSusanna Clarke has fashioned her own myth anew and enlarged the world again * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves. This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered -- ERIN MORGENSTERN\u003cbr\u003eOkay, now everyone listen. No, I mean it, shut up for a second. We need to talk about \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e. I don’t… I really do not know how to talk about this book beyond a very high pitched scream and an emphatic grabbing of your knee * Tor.com *\u003cbr\u003eAs gloriously imaginative as its predecessor … A novel that could have been written by nobody else … Her prose is crisp, direct and unfussy … It’s a book about the tension between those who want to possess a world and those who delight in it, describe it, honour it. It’s an extraordinary book, well worth the wait * SFX Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eFifteen years on from Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell, Clarke’s second novel finally sees the light * Sunday Times, What to watch out for next year 2020 *\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Clarke’s monumental masterwork \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the finest works of speculative fiction of the twenty-first century and now, with \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, she once more mines a darkly fantastical vision with a tale of a very singular house and its mysterious inhabitants. Saturated in gothic atmosphere and supernatural lore, \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is simply unmissable\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Waterstones.com *\u003cbr\u003eHere is Clarke’s talent in full flower; Piranesi is the most purely enjoyable novel I’ve read in a long while * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magical house with labyrinthine halls and tides that thunder up staircases\u003c\/p\u003e * The Times, Autumn highlights *\u003cbr\u003eDelightful, discombobulating  … \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e is detective of his own existence ... Gripping * Psychologies *\u003cbr\u003eIt’s 16 years since \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange and Mr Norrell \u003c\/i\u003e– now Clarke is back with a new otherworldly fantasy * Guardian, 2020 in books: a literary calendar *\u003cbr\u003eSixteen long years have passed since the publication of the magnificent \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell.\u003c\/i\u003e Susanna Clarke returns at last in September with \u003ci\u003ePiranesi \u003c\/i\u003e…\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe eerie tale of a man who lives in a flooded house * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eThe long-awaited new book from the author of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eSusannah Clarke’s much-anticipated follow-up finally arrives\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * SFX Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eSixteen years after \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange And Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e, Susannah Clarke returns at last with the otherworldly tale of a man who lives in a flooded house * Daily Mirror *\u003cbr\u003eAn otherworldly study of solitude, celebrating everyday consolations and the comfort of nature …  Inventive, immersive and hard to pin down -- Lisa Allardice * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eHer extraordinary novel pirouettes between CS Lewisesque fantasy and sci-fi thriller * The i *\u003cbr\u003eStructured like a thriller and burrows into the subconscious, throwing out puzzles long after the final page * The Times, The Best Paperbacks of 2021 *\u003cbr\u003eWhat begins as “fantasy” becomes, in a series of hints and echoes and rug-pulling revelations, a detective story, a satire and a witty take on male egoism. 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