Read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

A man alone in an infinite house of statues and tides; Susanna Clarke's second novel.

Victorian London, a grappling hook and twins who share the story.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.

Shakespeare's son dies of plague and his wife Agnes grieves; the play is named after him.

Visit the iconic Big Ben clock tower in London, one of the most famous landmarks in the world