* JonathanStrange & Mr Norrell polarised readers when it burst onto the fantasy scene in 2004 — some found it tiresomely long and contrived, while others desperately hoped for more. Now, 16 years later, British author Susanna Clarke has published her second fantasy novel, Piranesi. It is nothing like
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