Blogs in April 2020

Utopia Avenue 13th April 2020

The imaginative and award-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell returns to spin a web of music and money as a psychedelic British band in the ‘60s finds fame and fallout among such legends as...

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Slade House 28th September 2018

Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and 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....

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Number9Dream 18th March 2014

As Eiji Miyake’s twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as...

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 1st January 1970

Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...

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