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JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL - SUSANNA CLARK...

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Shortlisted 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 GAIMAN The 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.

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