Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a ‘guest’ is summoned to Slade House. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe’en, 2015. 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.Ī stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open.
Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall.
Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Slade Houseīorn out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. You can win 10 copies of this fantastic book for your reading group! We even have an exclusive extract for you to read first. The book was selected with the help of a panel made up of Reading Agency and library staff from across the UK. Slade House by David Mitchell will be featured on the Radio 2 Book Club on Monday 16 November.
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