The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City
The Times instant Top Ten bestseller
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:22nd Oct '26
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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic
**The Times instant Top Ten bestseller**
**A small hardback edition featuring an afterword by the author**
1110 A.D. The fairy host sweeps across the North of England and the city of Durham is under siege. Wearily the Bishop of Durham, Ranulf Flambard, prepares to surrender – something which proves far more difficult than he could have imagined.
His quest will lead him through a landscape of unco-operative rivers and enchanted forests to a New Castle on the banks of the River Tyne – where, with any luck, he will be received by a court of deceptive, would-be fairy queens, shape-shifting stags and a beautiful teenage Raven King.
A long-lost chapter in the lore of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City is an enchanting and enchanted adventure into the magic of medieval England.
Praise for Susanna Clarke:
‘Spellbinding’ Dua Lipa
‘A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling’ Madeline Miller
‘Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous’ Katherine Rundell
Praise for Susanna Clarke: 'Clarke creates a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human -- Bernardine Evaristo, Women's Prize Chair of Judges 2021
What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being -- David Mitchell
Spellbinding -- Dua Lipa
A miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling -- Madeline Miller
Like Hilary Mantel, Clarke has made the very notion of genre seem quaint * Guardian *
One of the greatest and most interesting writers of fantasy in the past hundred years or more * Times Literary Supplement *
Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and beauty that seems at times miraculous -- Katherine Rundell
A treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered -- Erin Morgenstern
Purely joyful reading -- Naomi Alderman
Utterly compelling – bewildering, intense, moving, shocking, combining a haunting fantasy with sharp insight -- Rowan Williams
ISBN: 9781037203909
Dimensions: 204mm x 132mm x 12mm
Weight: 171g
96 pages
Unabridged edition