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WEEK 7 - Wednesday 2nd March 2005

CLOUD ATLAS
David Mitchell

Published by Sceptre
ISBN: 0340822783

Book Club MORE, MORE, MORE!!!

Read the reviews of our third Book Club title, 'The American Boy' from our featured Book Group, Richard & Judy, and our celebrity reviewers Griff Rhys Jones and Ian Hislop, plus find out more about the story and the author >>here
 
Book Club ABOUT THE BOOK

In Cloud Atlas David Mitchell combines the stories of six individuals to create a masterful whole, which is both thought provoking and incredibly exhilarating.

The morality and ambitions of a reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified ‘dinery server’ on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation, echo and impact on each others stories down the corridor of history and point to a terrifying vision of the world’s future which challenges our ability to shape not only our destiny but those that will come after us.

Book Club ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Mitchell was born in 1969 in Southport, Lancashire, brought up in Worcestershire, lived in Hiroshima for eight years and now lives in the west of Ireland with his wife and daughter.

His first novel, Ghostwritten, was published in 1999 to great acclaim and won the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, followed in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

In 2003, David was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Earlier this year, Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Book Club ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Published by Sceptre
(ISBN 0340822783)

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Book Club RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB

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