Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
By Susanna Clarke. Read by Richard Armitage.
2024. 36hr. Macmillan Audio, DD (9781250384867).
Clarke’s much-lauded debut novel is 20 years old but feels like it has been part of our collective reading awareness for much longer. The alternate history of magicians in London influenced many of today’s favorite speculative writers, like V. E. Schwab, who wrote an introduction to this anniversary edition and reads it with the excitement of a fan and the wisdom of a scholar of Clarke’s work. Richard Armitage then steps in and sweeps us away on his deep, velvety voice, one much worth
