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David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast

In this episode of the short story series, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell introduces one of the great, early 20th century horror stories: WW Jacobs’s chilling short story The Monkey’s Paw, which is...

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Ursula K Le Guin by David Mitchell: ‘She was a crafter of fierce, focused,...

The Cloud Atlas author and Earthsea devotee reflects on his encounters with a formidable and pioneering novelistNews: Ursula K Le Guin dies aged 88I only met Ursula K Le Guin the once, and her first...

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David Mitchell meets David Peace: ‘I’ve slowed down. I can’t believe I...

Fifteen years after they made it on to Granta’s best young British novelists list, the two authors discuss self doubt, obsessions and making a home abroadDavid Mitchell: To begin, I’d like to float the...

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Sjón's top 10 artificial humans in fiction

Golems, clones, cyborgs and dolls ... these are some of the most urgent cautionary tales ever toldThe story of man trying to compete with the gods in creating a living being is one of the earliest...

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Kate Bush to publish book of lyrics, introduced by David Mitchell

How to Be Invisible, a collection of lyrics from across the singer’s 40-year career, will be published in December by FaberShe is famous for incorporating the work of Emily Brontë, James Joyce and...

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The 100 best books of the 21st century

Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000Read an interview with the author of our No 1 bookRead Ali Smith...

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‘What’ll happen if I try this?’: David Mitchell on writing Cloud Atlas

Bold and ambitious, this wildly inventive novel blurred genre boundaries in six interlinked stories. The author reveals his inspirations• The 100 best books of the 21st centuryBig books are made of...

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David Mitchell announces Utopia Avenue, his first novel in five years

Due out next summer, the novel will explore the power of music, following the career of the eponymous psychedelic bandCloud Atlas author David Mitchell is to tackle the story of “the strangest British...

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Our House Is on Fire by Greta Thunberg et al review – a family and planet in...

A courageous family account of Greta Thunberg’s Asperger’s diagnosis becomes a must-read ecological message of hopeA movement born without a face tends to acquire one. Since August 2018, when...

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Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape

From Hilary Mantel to Kazuo Ishiguro and Marlon James to Sebastian Barry, writers share their favourite literary comfortsAuthor of American Wife and the forthcoming Rodham: What If Hillary Hadn’t...

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Top 10 books about Tokyo | Nick Bradley

From quiet stories of domestic life to accounts of horrific crime, these books introduce the reader to a vast, almost unknowable cityTokyo: an elusive fictional character in its own right, the subject...

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David Mitchell: 'I think most writers have a deep-seated envy of musicians'

The bestselling author’s new novel Utopia Avenue dives into London’s 60s music scene. He talks about writing cameos for Bowie and Zappa, world-building and not repeating his greatest hitsDavid...

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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – a musical journey

This portrait of a 60s band on the rise conveys the spirit of the age with gleeful energy David Mitchell’s eighth novel, Utopia Avenue, arrives both as a distinct and distinctive book, and as a further...

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Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – endless prog rock noodling

The acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas hits a bum note with this hackneyed story of a band in the late 1960sI may never forgive David Mitchell for writing Cloud Atlas. It was a gloriously inventive...

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This month’s best paperbacks: Richard Osman, International Booker nominees...

Here are some outstanding new paperbacks for May, including Osman’s bestselling crime caper, Adam Buxton’s memoir and a fascinating study of eelsContinue reading...

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David Mitchell: ‘The world still thinks autistic people don’t do emotions’

The writer on how translating The Reason I Jump for his non-verbal autistic son was a lifesaver and his excitement at seeing the new Matrix film he co-wroteAuthor David Mitchell, 52, was born in...

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The Reason I Jump review – an empathic study of nonverbal autism

Documentary inspired by Japanese teenager’s bestselling book takes us into the world of young neurodivergent people across the worldHere is a documentary with something to tell us and something to...

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David Mitchell: ‘If I need cheering up, Jamie Oliver’s recipes usually help’

The novelist on mind-expanding Ursula K Le Guin, reading Joyce’s Ulysses during lockdown and taking comfort in cookbooksMy earliest reading memoryAged five or so, at primary school: a story about two...

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Top 10 world-spanning novels | CA Davids

Writers from David Mitchell to Graham Greene and Rachel Kushner tell stories that seek out interconnectedness, testing and pulling at the idea of nationhoodThink global … think local, no? It feels...

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Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo

David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114On Sunday the Future Library, a project dreamed up...

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