Susanna Clarke: 'You’ve got to play with things being very fantastical and also slightly humdrum'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2025-05-23

This spring we've heard from Fríða Ísberg, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods already. But we bring this series to a close with Susanna Clarke and her short story The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City. Clarke tells us that it's a story she's been thinking about for some time. "I have never really stopped thinking about Strange and Norrell," she says. "It's a world that keeps summoning me back." In the novel, The Raven King was very young when he first arrived in England, Clarke exp...