And to anyone waiting for the new novel, thanks for your patience, too. Sorry it's taking so long. It's the strangest, trickiest fish I've ever tried to land, but hopefully it'll be worth the wait. Home straight now.

. there's a deal on Audible SLADE HOUSE – details here. Should you enter the small black iron door, good luck.

Apologies for my long hibernation. I've been working on my big new novel, and I feel a guilty if I post Xs (right word?) before handing in the manuscript to my patient editors. However. .

One&All, the US @penguinrandom Cloud Atlas 20th anniversary edition is out in time for Black Friday. Signed copies at Barnes&Noble @BNBuzz in store. Open & tilt the book 90 degrees for full Kapowza🙏to designer Will Staehle @unusualcorp & the mighty @gabriellezevin for new intro.

RT @RefugeeTales: Don’t miss the opportunity to hear @david_mitchell read The Dressmaker’s Tale in Wandsworth on 9 July with tickets to att….

To everyone coming to my event at Bath with Mat Osman this evening – SO SORRY but it's cancelled. The plane I boarded this morning developed a fault prior take off. Rebooking was chaotic & slow, so I've had to drive back home. Really disappointed. My Hay event should be OK.

Very much looking forward to a few dates in the UK this month. It's been a long old time.

Just finished @tomlamont's fine & spirit-lifting debut novel of friendship, fatherhood, growth and forgiveness. A bluff song of praise to North London, peopled by engaging, fallible characters, and rich in glinting turns of phrase. @SceptreBooks.

Short notice, but this is on in 96 minutes from now on @BBCRadio3. Thanks to the creatively erudite @MichaelBerkele2 for being such a thoughtful, attentive interviewer.

Morning/Afternoon/Evening All. Just to say my Hay Day is Sunday 26 May 2024, 11.30am (aka 'The Hangover Slot'). Event 79 in See you there.

Last week I finally got myself a real job as a book-defacer, courtesy of @SceptreBooks & @HodderBooks. Thanks to Steve N and his team at the frankly astonishing Hely Hutchinson Book Distribution Centre.

Looking forward to this event at Topping's Edinburgh,.Wed 15th May, 7.30pm – my first time at the store, and my first time in Scotland since pre-pandemic times.

Today I'll let this clip from my editor do the talking. .

I hope you're all well, All. The 20th Anniversary Edition of CLOUD ATLAS has landed. Gorgeous plumage, slinky endpapers, nice paper. New intro by (I blush with pride and gratitude) Gabrielle Zevin. New afterword by me. Pre-orderable here –.

Just read a proof of Kevin Barry's THE HEART IN WINTER from @canongatebooks out in June. Holy Damn it's good. Includes (arguably) THE finest American frontier 'shroom scene in the Western Canon.

Hello All. Sorry I've been so quiet. I'm writing. This however, is a Thing, that makes me feel honoured, happy and old. As we say in showbiz, Very Special Guest & moderator to be announced soon. We'll discuss the present and future as well the past. See you there I hope.

Probably the loveliest edition of Kenji Miyazawa's wild unclassifiable tales ever published from @vintagebooks. Cherished by generations of Japanese readers, translated by Alfred Bester, intro'd by Dr Kaori Nagai @UniKent @ArtsHumsUniKent & prefaced by me.

RT @Mangrii: Desde AYER y las CONVERSACIONES con varias personas que asistieron a la charla de @david_mitchell en el #Festival42BCN, se me….

The audiobook of my first novel GHOSTWRITTEN is on (a rather tasty) offer here courtesy of @audibleuk @HodderBooks. (Soberingly, I started its earliest sections half my lifetime ago.).

I don't have a new novel out this year, but I *did* conclude a lockdown email interview with one of my favourite musicians, Sam Amidon. The interview got wildly out of hand and clocked in at over 50 pages. Here are those pages for fans of Sam's, and the curious.