Slade House

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' Independent 'Deliciously creepy' Sunday Times 'Irresistible' Mail on Sunday 'Skin-crawling' Observer 'Manically ingenious' Guardian 'An elegant fright-fest' The Times The chilling seventh novel from the critically acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs . . . PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL 'A thrilling and gifted writer' Financial Times 'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail 'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius' New York Times Book Review 'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill' Independent on Sunday 'A superb storyteller' The New Yorker

Turned at the age of twenty-five, Slade Blackwell has been a vampire for over two hundred years. He was attacked and left for dead by Lilith Bronwyn, the oldest known vampire. He gets the chance to exact his revenge when Lilith is injured in a fight and loses her memory. Slade finds that when she is helpless and vulnerable he can't kill her so he saves her and keeping her secretly in his home he tries to find out what makes Lilith the way she is. What turned her into a brutal killer. Lilith has wandered the world for over a thousand years angry and destructive. But now with no memory of who she is or how she became a vampire she depends on Slade to help her remember her past. Lilith falls in love with Slade and can't understand why he keeps her at arm's length. Can Slade and Lilith find a way to be together without their past getting in the way.

David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing. Novels such as Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks demonstrate the author's dazzling literary technique in an oeuvre that crosses genres, genders and borders, moving effortlessly through time and space. David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, including discussions of all of his novels to-date plus his shorter fictions, essays and libretti. As well as offering extended coverage of Mitchell's most popular work, Cloud Atlas, the authors explore Mitchell's genre-hopping techniques, world-making aesthetics, and engagements with key contemporary issues such as globalization, empire, the environment, disability, trauma and technology. In addition, this book includes an expansive interview with David Mitchell as well as a guide to further reading to help students and readers alike explore the works of this tremendously inventive writer.

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THE LONG WAY HOME Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler, planets which hold hidden dangers. And if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys ... that is when the real fighting starts. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "-[Drake] has developed a following for his Slammers just short of cult proportions." -Rave Reviews

Prenez la route après le pub, suivez la ruelle aux murs de brique. Si les conditions sont réunies, vous devriez trouver l'entrée de Slade House. Une inconnue vous y accueillera, et vous proposera d'y entrer. Au début, vous n'aurez pas envie d'en partir. Ensuite, vous vous rendrez compte que partir est impossible... Tous les neuf ans, les habitants de la maison – un frère et une sœur – proposent à quelqu'un de les rejoindre – quelqu'un de différent, de solitaire : un enfant précoce, un policier fraîchement divorcé, un étudiant timide. Mais que se passe-t-il vraiment à l'intérieur de Slade House ? Pour ceux qui le découvrent, il est déjà trop tard... Slade House est une histoire de maison hantée comme seul pouvait la réinventer David Mitchell : pastiche, humour, et terreur se mélangent et raviront les aficionados de l'horreur comme les lecteurs les plus prudents. Traduit de l'anglais par Manuel Berri.

"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May 1884.