![]() ![]() Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a ‘guest’ is summoned to Slade House. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe’en, 2015. 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.Ī stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. 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. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. 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. Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. ![]()
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