Author: Susanna Clarke
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 22 October 2026 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Circus) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 96 pages
204 x 136 x 14 | 172g
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**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