On my radar: novelist David Mitchell’s cultural highlights

The author on Bach’s endlessly rewarding Goldberg Variations, the best noodles outside Japan, and how he plans to catch the sunlight in Norway

Author David Mitchell was raised in Worcestershire. He studied at the University of Kent before moving to Hiroshima in Japan where he taught English for eight years. He published his first novel, Ghostwritten, in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Guardian first book award. In 2003 he was selected by Granta magazine as one of its 20 Best of Young British Novelists. Two of his novels, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were both shortlisted for the Booker prize. His latest novel, The Bone Clocks, published in 2014, was longlisted for the Booker and is just out in paperback. He lives in Clonakilty in County Cork. His new novel, Slade House, is due out in October.

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