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Slade House

The chilling and bewitching novel by the acclaimed author of CLOUD ATLAS

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Slade House

By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues, Thomas Judd
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Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.

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 by name 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 reaches 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...

(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton©2015 David Mitchell Classics Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Science Fiction Scary
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Critic reviews

Ingenious . . . a deliciously creepy story to be read for plot and for pleasure, with your heart racing, and your eyes involuntarily skipping forwards to find out what happens
Packed with heady ideas and pulsing with dark energy . . . both dazzlingly inventive and compulsively readable
An elegant fright-fest of the highest order . . . Mitchell masterfully, humorously, combines the classic components of a scary story - old house, dark alley, missing persons - with a realism, when describing the lives of the victims, that is pacy, funny and true
A clever and deep-frozenly chilling Gothic horror story . . . genuinely good, genuinely scary
Mitchell seamlessly brings together his clashing parallel realities through wordplay so dazzling it seems to defy its own gravitational rules
Chilling and dazzling . . . but the real skill of the book is in its emotional impact. Mitchell makes you care about each of the narrators
Irresistible
Mitchell's most pleasurable book to date, which also features some of his finest writing . . . a quiet, delightful triumph
Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell's Slade House. It's a wildly inventive, chilling, and - for all its other-worldiness - wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to return to its clutches quite often (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl)
A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician
One of the most enjoyably, deliriously frightening novels I've read in ages . . . gleeful, skin-crawling brilliance
His work manages to beguile, impress and delight in equal parts . . . highly effective, creepy and witty
It's a gripping premise which becomes increasingly suspenseful as the stories move closer to the present day . . . Be warned, this is not a book to read before bedtime
Manically ingenious . . . Vending-machine horror tropes, believable characters, wild farce, existential jeopardy, meta-fictional jokes: into the cauldron they go. Mitchell is at home in this kitchen
A marvellously horrific, sharp and concise masterpiece . . . The novel's brevity should not lead the reader to underestimate just how much punch Mitchell's prose packs. His fiction is intoxicating
I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Intricately connected to David Mitchell's previous books, this compact fantasy burns with classic Mitchellian energy. Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it's a Dracula for the new millennium, a Hansel and Gretel for grownups, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See)
Crackling with menace, yet a delightful sly wit
A deliciously creepy, page-turning mystery . . . Mitchell's gift for characterisation shines through, making everyone vivid
All stars
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I was initially lured into David Mitchell's worlds by Blackswan Green and ever since have eagerly awaited his next novel. This doesn't disappoint. It's a gripping story with the reoccurrence of characters events from the other novels that I always get a bit of a thrill.

The book is divided in to sections each 9 years apart and narrated by a different character. Mitchell really nails both the voice of the character and the feel of the point in time in which they are set.

The audiobook gets the balance between performance and reading just about right.

If you enjoy Mitchell's other novels you'll love this.

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This doesn't give anything away about what's going and the reader has to make sense of what's going on at Slade House. The writing is so good that this is not confusing but compelling and kept me wanting to read on. It's creepy and unsettling in all the right ways. One small caveat is that I suspect it helps to have read The Bone Clocks.

The narrators are very good.

Twisting and time-warping tale

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What about Tania Rodrigues and Thomas Judd ’s performance did you like?

Performed well by both performers, good characterisation

Any additional comments?

Essentially it is series of interconnected short stories. It helps to have read the Bone Clocks recently as there are recurring themes and characters. That being said it should not matter if you have not read it as the references this book makes serve more as just a nod to its predecessor.

Bone Clocks prequel

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I enjoyed this book. Not as scary as I thought it would be but that's no bad thing. Just one very tiny point though- Ely is not in Norfolk it's in Cambridgeshire!!

Enjoyable

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Interwoven and interconnected in the style we expect of David Mitchell, this is as much a series of related stories as anything. Characters are briefly but vividly drawn and the narrators do an excellent job of bringing them to life, with diverse accents and distinct voices. Revommend recommend recommend.

Plunge into a claustrophobic, layered story

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