The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse

Susanna Clarke, who wrote the excellent historical fantasy Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, has an audio version of her new short story (set in the universe of Neil Gaiman's comic fantasy Stardust) up on British Radio 4. Like most of her shorter work (some of which has graced the Op-Ed page of the New York Times), it's a polished little gem, and it has enough real history in it to qualify as more than just "period fantasy." The audio version is only up for a week, although the story will appear in her upcoming collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories.