https://nicemachine.net.au/tags/susanna-clarke/ Recent content in Susanna Clarke on nicemachine Hugo -- gohugo.io en-au Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nicemachine.net.au/book/2026-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://nicemachine.net.au/book/2026-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell/ What is an ‘English’ magician? A fun question, and this novel starts as a fun exploration of that. Formal and controlled magic appears to be the answer, rather than spirited and wild. The writing is historical tongue in cheek, and copious footnotes add to the sense of this being a formal historical account. So far so good, but before long the tale get bogged down in fairly tiresome and irrelevant side stories.