5x15: David Mitchell, Conway Hall

Literary Awards
Mitchell's blockbuster debut novel, Ghostwritten, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, which honours the best book published by a writer under 35. After the flyaway success of number9dream and then Cloud Atlas, Mitchell was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelist and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential people. The Bone Clocks was the third of Mitchell's novels to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize.
About The Bone Clocks 
The Bone Clocks brings stylistic vim to bear the genre-bending ambition of Cloud Atlas. It begins in 1984 with the teenage runaway Holly Sykes, whose occult abilities see her unknowingly caught up in an eternal conflict. Each volume then moves ahead a decade in her life until 2043, cycling through a diverse series of narrators. Mitchell’s novels have always reused characters – creating what fans have dubbed ‘the Mitchellverse’ – but The Bone Clocks goes even further, linking all his previous works together. It’s also a potent statement of environmentalism, taking our current consumption of resources to its apocalyptic end-point.
Mitchell has achieved the rare feat of crafting a huge world that is entirely his own, a fictional universe that – while drawing on dozens of literary predecessors – remains unique. His readers trust him to take them places that many authors would not dare attempt. He has no fear of unfashionable genres and mediums. Even his short story, ‘The Right Sort’, published entirely through Twitter, seems less a gimmick than a natural fit for its subject. Reading Micthell transforms your perspective of contemporary writing. Don't miss this chance to hear all about the Mitchellverse from Mitchell himself.