Raven King’s Shadow: Susanna Clarke Returns to Jonathan Strange World

It opens up as the Raven King’s fairy military brushes up across the north of England and the city finds itself surrounded by shadowy figures. “When at last they arised out of the haze, the citizens saw that they were not trolls or titans– as they had feared– yet trees, the ordinary trees of England.

Clarke Revisits Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Universe

Clarke claimed: “The Diocesan of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City is a tale I have actually been thinking of for a long time. It’s permitted me to review a personality from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell– one of those who are simply glimpsed in the darkness of that publication.”

Fictionable Publishes New Clarke Story

Fictionable editor Richard Lea claimed: “We’re pleased to bring viewers a fascinating record from the globe of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a wonderful story where they can learn more about the mystical Raven King a little much better. And it’s terrific to provide it alongside such a strong collection of tales, varying from split to power outage and from the dissolution of the abbeys to tree surgical treatment on a council estate.”

The tale is set to appear on the Fictionable website on 24th April 2025, together with a story by Icelandic writer Fríða Ísberg, equated by Larissa Kyzer and stories by Bronia Flett, PR Woods and Jeremy Wikeley.

Bishop Ranulf’s New Alliances in a Changed World

Twenty-one years after the publication of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Bloomsbury), bestselling author Susanna Clarke has actually returned to the globe of the novel in a new narrative, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, published by Fictionable.

In a world transformed, Bishop Ranulf discovers that there are new alliances to be made between Norman, English and fairy. And so he goes in search of the fairy king: “He had actually already served three kings. He did not see why he ought to not work to a fourth.”