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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jun 30, 2015 | 9780340921623 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 15, 2020 | 9781444768008 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 2, 2014 | 9781848945043 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jun 30, 2015 | 9780340921623 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 15, 2020 | 9781444768008 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 2, 2014 | 9781848945043 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jun 30, 2015 | 9780340921623 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 15, 2020 | 9781444768008 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 2, 2014 | 9781848945043 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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The dazzling new novel from the author of CLOUD ATLAS, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival.
Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking . . .
THE BONE CLOCKS follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon.
Praise for The Bone Clocks: Longlisted for the Booker Prize
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A globe-trotting, mind-bending, hair-raising triumph - Guardian
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He is funny, hip and full of life. Which other writer could match his witty elision of fiction and science, of sense and nonsense? This beautiful explosion of adventurous ideas may well take him, finally, beyond the Booker shortlist. - The Times
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If only real life were as elegant and generally encouraging as a Mitchell novel! He writes with scintillating verve and abundance. - Daily Telegraph
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For its experimentation, humour, hybrid energy, and sheer narrative pleasure, The Bone Clocks compels admiration. - Evening Standard
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No one, clearly, has ever told Mitchell that the novel is dead. He writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience - New York Times Book Review
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Mitchell's vision of the future may be bleak, but the force of his storytelling made The Bone Clocks a joy - Time Australia, Number Two in Best Fiction of 2014
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A globe-trotting kaleidoscope that covers both ancient and new ground, The Bone Clocks is fiction at its most spellbinding - MiNDFOOD
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
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, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
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