Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.
A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
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Intricate, multi-layered structures spanning diverse historical periods and speculative futures characterize the narrative design of Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell established a distinct reputation through complex nested storytelling that bridges genre boundaries, linking disparate historical vignettes, contemporary realism, and futuristic fiction into single overarching works. Born in 1969, the English author and screenwriter frequently connects his novels through shared characters and sprawling fictional mythologies.
Born in 1969 in Southport, Lancashire, Mitchell grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire. During childhood, he did not speak until age five and subsequently developed a stammer. He went on to study English and American literature at the University of Kent before spending eight years teaching English in Japan, where he committed himself to creative writing. His debut novel, Ghostwritten (1999), earned the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Over the course of his career, Mitchell has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the South Bank Show Literature Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.
In 2018, Mitchell received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in recognition of his entire body of work. Beyond his original fiction, he collaborated with KA Yoshida to translate two non-fiction books from Japanese by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism and Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism. Mitchell has also expanded into screenwriting, co-writing the film script for The Matrix Resurrections and contributing to television and stage adaptations. He lives in Ireland with his wife and their two children.
Mitchell's fiction is recognized for its stylistic versatility, shifting seamlessly between historical fiction, coming-of-age narrative, dystopian science fiction, and dark fantasy. A defining feature of his oeuvre is the thematic and character continuity that spans across multiple books, creating a unified macro-narrative universe. Whether depicting a adolescent in 1980s Worcestershire in Black Swan Green or chronicling an immortal conflict in The Bone Clocks, his prose focuses on memory, power dynamics, mortality, and human connection across time.
2 books in catalog
Intricate, multi-layered structures spanning diverse historical periods and speculative futures characterize the narrative design of Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell established a distinct reputation through complex nested storytelling that bridges genre boundaries, linking disparate historical vignettes, contemporary realism, and futuristic fiction into single overarching works. Born in 1969, the English author and screenwriter frequently connects his novels through shared characters and sprawling fictional mythologies.
Born in 1969 in Southport, Lancashire, Mitchell grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire. During childhood, he did not speak until age five and subsequently developed a stammer. He went on to study English and American literature at the University of Kent before spending eight years teaching English in Japan, where he committed himself to creative writing. His debut novel, Ghostwritten (1999), earned the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Over the course of his career, Mitchell has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and has won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the South Bank Show Literature Prize, and the World Fantasy Award.
In 2018, Mitchell received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in recognition of his entire body of work. Beyond his original fiction, he collaborated with KA Yoshida to translate two non-fiction books from Japanese by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism and Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism. Mitchell has also expanded into screenwriting, co-writing the film script for The Matrix Resurrections and contributing to television and stage adaptations. He lives in Ireland with his wife and their two children.
Mitchell's fiction is recognized for its stylistic versatility, shifting seamlessly between historical fiction, coming-of-age narrative, dystopian science fiction, and dark fantasy. A defining feature of his oeuvre is the thematic and character continuity that spans across multiple books, creating a unified macro-narrative universe. Whether depicting a adolescent in 1980s Worcestershire in Black Swan Green or chronicling an immortal conflict in The Bone Clocks, his prose focuses on memory, power dynamics, mortality, and human connection across time.
