'The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that deepened our understanding, ignited our curiosity and helped us escape. A masterful work of weird fiction, it’s a novel that grips, perplexes and moves you, usually all at once!' ( Observer, The Best Books of 2020) 'It’s always great to have some fiction to heartily recommend, and while there’s been stiff competition this year, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke has won out in the end. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box.' (David Mitchell) 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being. The beauty of the House is immeasurable its kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. Lost texts must be found, secrets must be uncovered. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead.

On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. The spectacular new audiobook from the best-selling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, ‘one of our greatest living authors,’ New York Magazine. Shortlisted for The Costa Novel of The Year Award.Ī Sunday Times and New York Times best seller.Ĭhosen as A Book of The Year by the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times. Winner of the 2021 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year. Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction.

Piranesi audiobook