Cloud Atlas author tells Edinburgh audience that his next book, Slade House, amounts to ‘world building and cosmology’ along the lines of Tolkien’s
Cloud Atlas writer David Mitchell says he believes he has created his own version of Middle Earth for all his future books.
Teasing a sold-out Edinburgh international book festival crowd with excerpts from his forthcoming novel Slade House, he said it would inhabit the same Newtonian law-bending universe of 2014’s The Bone Clocks. It was “by far the darkest book I’ve done”, he said, and “an exercise in world building and cosmology.”
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