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...