Ive just read the excerpt and wow am I intrigued to see how the rest of the book turns out.
In just a handful of pages it already feels like a descriptive delight and I'm already building a visual of the House/World.
I have pre ordered the book and am excited to continue reading it.

Thank you for providing this excerpt for me to read.

Its going to be very difficult for Susanna Clarke to improve on her previous bestseller, but from the short preview supplied by Netgalley, she might just have pulled it off. Nothing like "Johnathon Strange" nevertheless "Piranesi" shapes up to be a magnificent fantasy, broad in scope and deep in mystery. We meet a house, possibly representative of our World, full of hallways, landscapes, an ocean which floods and objects, thousands of statues, and inhabited by two people.

There's still magic, old magic, and two main protagonists, both with secrets. Fans will be happy.

I'd say this book has the flavour of Carnivale or Circe or even the Night Circus but I'm sure will carve its own niche in readers minds. The language is mesmerising and this short teaser certainly left me wanting more.

Thanks to #Netgalley and the Publishers #Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (UK & ANZ) for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
Having read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which I loved, I was so excited to get this extract and it certainly didn’t disappoint! I cannot wait to find out more, this book is due to be published 15th September 2020 and I cannot wait.

A great teaser - the timing for this is wonderful and the ambient and characters are wonderful - looking forward to purchasing and reading more ... Susanna Clarke has a fiendish mind!

It's always hard to get a complete feel for a book from a sample, but this one was intriguing. It's been a long wait for another book from Susanna Clarke to the point where some thought there wouldn't be one. It's a long time since I read Jonathan Strange, but this felt quite different. Same writing style, but a different set up. I was reminded a little of the Starless Sea and came away even more curious about what might be about to happen.

Review of just a mere snippet of the whole book.

A SAMPLE only so no reflection on the complete work.

In this alternative existence the world is presented as an incredible mansion over three floors with numerous halls going off to the points of the compass. Our narrator is one of just two “human beings”, he is called Piranesi by the other male and ‘Piranesi’ our narrator, knows no other name for himself and he calls the older man The Other.
Both see themselves as scientists and meet once a week for an hour to plan, seek out and discover truth.
The Other has some lofty ideas of his own which he shares. Piranesi is more methodical and open to discover through experiences. He has begun detailing each hall and keeps a journal for a future being to read and understand.
There is a sense that the world not only tolerates their presence but actively encourages it. However, Piranesi is concerned that a female child appears among the bones of those that have died and if she was meant to be his wife before her death what of the future without children.

Annoyingly too short to gauge where this fantasy is heading or what insights and truths it hopes to reveal and share. This isn’t my preferred genre but I am quite comfortable in these pages. The author is a trusted imaginative writer who one can trust to take us on this journey but sadly my trip has ended before it even began.

I will look out for this book and if the mood catches me be glad to resume this fantasy saga. For her fans Susanna Clarke has built upon her growing reputation and they will be delighted with this book that confirms her status.

I marvel at the imagination and meaning such creative writing instils. For me there needs to be a deeper message than just the pure entertainment her genius creates. Perhaps this not knowing is the intrigue and impetus to make me seek out the completed novel and answer my own inquisitiveness.

I was worried this book wouldn't live up to my high expectations (I adore "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell"). I needed have worried. Going off of that excerpt, this promises to be just as much of an incredible read.

Having read this teasing extract, I *must* see what happens next. Being a huge fan of Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell, I was always going to read this anyway, but it is so different. Reading the extract I imagined I was in the Louvre or the V&A - in those huge museums full of marble statues and grand staircases - I really hope that there is lots of references to ancient Rome, and art given the title and cover. Piranesi, the 18thC Italian printmaker/artist was apparently famed for his drawings of imaginary prisons - which already explains a lot.

REading the extract has really made me look forward to this book!! Piranesi is about Piranesi's house which is a fantastical labyrinth with an ocean inside! I loved the style of writing and would recommend picking up the complete book

This is only a sample but boy do I wish it wasn't. I read and fell in love with Susanna Clarke's first novel 14 years ago. It was a novel that spoke to the very core of me so the prospect of a new novel has had me brimming with excitement. From the sample I have just read, Piranesi is worth the wait. Clarke's writing is on point. Her economy of story telling is to be admired and envied and the story she is telling is alluring. I cannot form any proper judgement on Piranesi until I have read the full text but if this sample is anything to go by then Susanna Clarke has not lost her touch.

The early extract for Piranesi was stunning. It was so unusual and I don't remember ever reading anything like it before. I am really looking forward to reading the rest of the story and being able to explore this fascinating world. The only negative point I have is that the sample stopped at the worst point and now I can't read any more until September.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloomsbury Publishing for the sneak peak!

This short extract is magical, fascinating and mysterious. It left me intrigued and wanting more. If you’ve loved reading The starless sea...You should read this. This book will unravel another level of imagination. Can’t wait to read the full story now.

This is a review of an extract rather than the full book.

A promising start. Set in a world obviously in the future (there are references to artifacts from the 20th century) where there are apparently only a few living humans remaining.

I can't say more than that at present - but would like to read the full book.

My thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for this glimpse into the book...

Although this is just a small insight into the novel, the opening still manages to create a strange and mysterious feeling. There is a sense of intrigue and I sense that even by the end, the reader may still be left wondering.

As a huge fan of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell I began to read this short but nonetheless intriguing extract with bated breath. My appetite for the rest of the novel is well and truly whetted and I cannot wait to read the full novel. Thank you very much for the advance extract!

This extract is amazing. Loved the world building. It was intriguing. Already pre ordered my copy. Thank you NetGalley and Bloomsbury for the extract.

I have been looking forward to Susanna Clarke's next book for a long time so I was very excited to read this advanced extract for Piranesi - and now having read it, I am even more excited about reading the book in September!

The extract introduces us to a strange and beautiful world of endless hallways, filled with statues, and tides which roar in and out of these vast empty spaces. The protagonist, Piranesi, tells us that he is one of only two humans inhabiting this 'House', which extends across the entire world. I was very confused for the first few pages, but I am also incredibly intrigued to find out more, and I love this beginning, it is such a promising start! So far it seems very different and I love the imagination of the setting. I can't wait to find out more.

My thanks to NetGalley and to Bloomsbury for this terrific advanced extract.

#piranesi #netgalley

If I were to say that I had been eagerly waiting for this book since it was announced last September it would only be a partial lie, because really I have been eagerly waiting for any new writing from Susanna Clarke for the last 10 years.

This extract is just long enough to impress that Clarke has not lost her touch since Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, or The Ladies of Grace Adieu, It is strange and intriguing and chock-full of beautiful and sinister imagery. I got to the end of this extract and almost wished I hadn't read it, because now my mouth is watering and my teeth are chomping for more, and I have to wait 3 more months to have that hunger stated.

Very short, but intruiging preview. Brings to mind "A Slow Regard of Silent things" in some ways. I struggled with the pacing of JS&MrN, but this one is going on my Wishlist.

What a weird little extract - so different from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Clarke's critically acclaimed debut) and yet all the more intriguing.

I found myself thoroughly confused, though I did not feel this to be a bad thing. It is a book meant to confuse, meant to addle your brains, meant for you to submit to its weirdness and float, adrift, upon the Tides that go through the House, knowing little about where it will take you next. I enjoyed this confusion, and wanted to know more about this odd House with rainfall and clouds on the Upper Halls and an Ocean stuck in its Lower Halls, and Piranesi, who seemed to have no concept of birth parents or the world beyond (IS there a world beyond the House?)

To him, the House *is* the World, and it comprises only him and the Other; he who believes a Great and Secret Knowledge is hidden in the World, one which will grant them powers they know not. They meet twice a week for an hour to discuss their searches for this Knowledge.

The statues that line the walls, and the bones of the thirteen who came before them are the only other whispers of life, of something, that keep Piranesi company. Until You, the sixteenth, who Piranesi is writing to, and who Piranesi does not know.

This book doesn't have the Austen-feel JSAMR had - but do not let that put you off. Clarke is a brilliant writer in all forms, and I trust her completely. I, for one, am a willing reader, eager to be swept off my feet to float adrift on the Tides of Clarke's making. Just be warned that it will be bizarre, and mysterious, and outlandish.