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Prepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained - a gem of a novel from ´one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country´ ( Independent ).

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Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you´re looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn´t quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.

A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won´t want to leave. Later, you´ll find that you can´t.

This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe´en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a ´guest´ is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs . . .

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Manically ingenious . . . Each fresh product of Mitchell´s soaring imagination functions as an echo chamber for both his previous ideas and his oeuvre to come Liz Jensen, Guardian

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Mitchell, David

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks and Slade House. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer´s entire body of work.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from the Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy´s Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man´s Voice from the Silence of Autism.

He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland.
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