Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 & inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark & stormy night Turn down Slade Alley
- narrow dank & 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 & invites you inside At first you won't want to leave Later you'll find that you can't This unnerving taut & intricately woven tale by one of our most original & bewitching writers begins in 1979 & 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 & for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic at the top of the stairs