For his new book, Slade House, David Mitchell is following in J.R.R. Tolkien's footsteps by creating a Middle-earth of his own. Photo: Paul Stuart
Cloud Atlas writer David Mitchell says he believes he has created his own version of Middle-earth for all his future books.
Teasing a book festival crowd recently with excerpts from his forthcoming novel, Slade House, he says it would inhabit the same Newtonian law-bending universe of 2014’s The Bone Clocks. It is “by far the darkest book I’ve done”, he says, and “an exercise in world-building and cosmology”.
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