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. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. About the Author David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. 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. Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it.

The book tells the story of various mysterious events occurring over a thirty-five year period at an estate known as Slade House.

His seventh book, Slade House is an expanded version of a story Mitchell originally wrote on Twitter. 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. Slade House is a mystery-horror novel published in 2015 by the British novelist David Mitchell.

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