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    Black Swan Green: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

    David Mitchell

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    The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell.

    Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award

    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006

    January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

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    Praise for Black Swan Green

    • David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good . . . Black Swan Green is just gorgeous. - Daily Mail A delight to read from beginning to end - Sunday Express Luminously beautiful - The Times I do hope to read a better British novel this year, but I can't honestly say that I expect to. - Scotsman Mitchell is just about the best writer operating in Britain today . . . a novel that, like each of its predecessors, sticks in the back of your head for weeks after you've finished it. - Arena Spry, disconcerting and moving. It is also extremely funny even - or especially - at the blackest of moments. - ObserverIntricate and beautiful - Time Out Hugely touching and enjoyable - Observer

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    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell

    Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize, and adapted for film in 2012. It was followed by Black Swan Green, shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Both were also longlisted for the Booker.

    In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. David Mitchell's sixth novel is The Bone Clocks (Sceptre, 2014).

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