Slade House

Resumen del libro

Walk down Slade Alley - narrow, dank, easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. A small black metal door is set into the right-hand wall.

No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it opens. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for its red-brick surroundings and too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside.

At first, you won't want to leave. Too late, you find you can't. This spine-chilling, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion on Hallowe'en, 2015.

For it is on the last Saturday of October, every nine years, that a 'guest' enters the attic of Slade House. They do not know they have been hand-picked, but they will soon discover who has drawn them there, and why...

Biografía del autor

David Mitchell was born in Southport in January, 1969.<br><br>His first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under 35 and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.<br><br>His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.<br><br>His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He has since published Black Swan Green (longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (longisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize). His most recent book, The Bone Clocks, is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.<br><br>In 2003 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.<br><br>David Mitchell now lives in Ireland.