{"product_id":"the-bishop-of-durham-attempts-to-surrender-the-city","title":"The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times on THE WOOD AT MIDWINTER\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[ \n\u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake . . . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review on PIRANESI\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\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!\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eMadeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SONG OF ACHILLES and CIRCE\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fiercely funny, beautiful writer, Clarke attacks her subject with the wit and craft of a Dickens or Austen, effortlessly mixing historical figures and events in with her magical ones. And that magic: nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does . . . She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eLev Grossman, TIME Magazine on JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSusanna Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \n\u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Hugo Award-winning \n\u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wood at Midwinter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling and prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePiranesi\u003c\/i\u003e, an enchanting, beautifully illustrated short story set in the world of \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange and Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e'He had already served three kings. He did not see why he should not be useful to a fourth.'\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the conquest of Northern England, the fairy host sweeps across the countryside. The city of Durham finds itself surrounded. But the encircling forces are not fairies, nor even other humans, but trees that trap the city within an eerie wood. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanulf, Bishop of Durham-a consummate politician-understands that the survival of the Northern English people depends on his finding a way to unite the two races, human and fairy. And he's not averse to improving his own position at the same time. With these aims in view, he sets off for the New Castle, in search of the new King-the leader of the fairy host, rumored to be a mysterious human boy, no more than fourteen years old, who speaks no word of any human language. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet 700 years before the events of \n\u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City\u003c\/i\u003e is a bewitching, must-have addition to any fantasy reader's shelf, featuring beautiful illustrations throughout. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eClarke, Susanna\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSusanna Clarke's debut novel \n\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 \n\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. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of Grace Adieu\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. Piranesi was a \n\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the RSL Encore Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. 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