A mysterious building containing sea, clouds and wildlife is the setting for this intense and enigmatic tale read by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s other picks
September 2021
Susanna Clarke: ‘I’d really ceased to think of myself as a writer’
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a triumphantly unusual Women’s prize winner
Justine Jordan
Women’s prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke’s ‘mind-bending’ Piranesi
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi favourite to win Women’s prize for fiction
Books that made me
Susanna Clarke: ‘Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman taught me to be courageous in writing’
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Susanna Clarke, Claudia Rankine, a biography of Tom Stoppard and more
April 2021
Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees
Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award
March 2021
First trans woman makes Women's prize longlist, alongside Dawn French and Ali Smith
Torrey Peters among 16 finalists, with chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo lamenting lack of older writers
October 2020
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke review – byzantine and beguiling
The gloriously strange follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is more than worth the lengthy wait
September 2020
Book of the day
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke review – an elegant study in solitude
Susanna Clarke: ‘I was cut off from the world, bound in one place by illness’
Autumn arts: our critics pick the best shows, film, music, books and TV
Biggest books of autumn 2020: what to read in a very busy year
September 2019
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell author to return after 16-year gap
Susanna Clarke, whose bestselling debut sold 4m copies, will publish her second novel, Piranesi, in September 2020
July 2018
Made in ...
Susanna Clarke on Bradford: ‘It made me feel like an outsider, but I loved it. It was full of drama’
The author on not fitting in, marauding gangs of dogs – and escaping into the hills with hunky King Arthur
December 2015
Children's books
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke – review
Faolan: ‘it is all encompassing, fascinating and – strangely – very believable’
May 2015
Susanna Clarke on the TV Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: ‘My own characters were walking about!’
The mansion, the wigs, the shadows … the scene is set for the TV adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Susanna Clarke goes on set to find her fantasy novel coming uncannily to life
