David Mitchell was born in 1969 and his first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was published by Sceptre in 1999 to great acclaim and won the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM (2001) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists 2003.
(contains) extreme imaginative fluency - The Sunday TimesRemarkable and enjoyable book - Lytham St Annes ExpressDavid Mitchell has fast established himself as a novelist of considerable authority and power ... Anyone who read his remarkable debut, or its successor, NUMBER9DREAM, will instantly recognise the characteristic moves and bold gestures of this amazing extravaganza. His novels have a gleefully kelptomaniac air, moving from the most tawdry thrills to thunderous, visionary spectacle; they are unlike anything else, and you emerge from them dazed, amazed, unsure of the exact nature of the overwhelming experience ... a tremendous novel ... CLOUD ATLAS is one of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable ... Mitchell is a novelist who knows exactly what he is doing, and one who is always one or two steps ahead of the reader; and at the end it seems to evaporate like the best dream you ever had. - Philip Hensher, SpectatorHis most accomplished achievement to date...a novel in the biggest, most exhilarating sense. - The ObserverA complete narrative pleasure - The Guardian(A) virtuoso performance...deeply impressive - The Daily TelegraphAn intense, arcing colossus of a book whose narrative links, supplied by the voices of six main characters, are spun out into a unified theory of everything : history, human evolution, science, the will to powe
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