This week we are truly honoured to welcome the legendary Susanna Clarke to You're Booked! Her debut novel was the beloved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu, set in the world of Jonathan Strange, followed in 2006. Her latest is Piranesi, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We talked to her about the lure of the library, reading and running away, magic, mysterious narrators and there's even a few bonus Christmas gift ideas!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Reginald Hill - A Clubbable Woman

Jane Austen - Sanditon

Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Anthology

John Irving - The World According To Garp

Rosemary Sutcliffe - Eagle of the Ninth

Cynthia Harnett - The Great House

Barbara Leonie Picard - Ransom For a Knight

Ruth Manning Sanders - Book of Dwarves

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Ursula K Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

AA Gill - Pour Me

Albert Camus - The Plague

Joan G Robinson - Charley

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

William Shakespeare - King Lear

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

EM Delafield - Dairy of a Provincial Lady

Anne Lister - The Secret Diaries

Anthony Horowitz - Foyles War

Anthony Horowitz - The Word is Murder

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

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