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.

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.

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