
A MAJOR SEVEN-PART BBC TV SERIES OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDTwo magicians shall appear in England The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me The year is 1806 England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon & centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country Proceeding to London he raises a beautiful woman from the dead & summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French Yet the cautious fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange Young handsome & daring Strange is the very opposite of Norrell So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England & France & their own obsessions & secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine