A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDA Book of the Year in TIME, The Times, Financial Times, i paper, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement and BBC.com The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, ‘one of our greatest living authors’ New York MagazinePiranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls.