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The Bone Clocks

Winner of the World Fantasy Award and Longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes

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The Bone Clocks

By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Chris Harper, Jennifer Woodward, Luke Thompson, Nicky Diss, Sandra Duncan
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**Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**

The dazzling novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS.

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict.

Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival . . .

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd©2014 David Mitchell Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Science Fiction Heartfelt Thought-Provoking
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Critic Reviews

600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose . . . Death is at the heart of this novel. And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master . . . It's a whopper of a story (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Fantastical, ambitious, bold and exuberant (Viv Groskop, Books of the Year)
A mind-spinning, genre-splicing time-travelling epic
An extraordinary piece of storytelling (Books of the Year)
A return to the exuberance and genre-hopping of Cloud Atlas, and a proper page-turner (Stephanie Merritt, Books of the Year)
Combines fantastic inventiveness with depth and heart (Books of the Year)
One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time . . . an extraordinary fun house of a novel (Meg Wolitzer)
A ludicrously ambitious, unstoppably clever epic told through a chorus of diverse narrators that is both outrageous in scope and meticulous in execution
Great story, great words, all good
Great fun . . . a tour de force
Mitchell is one of the most electric writers alive. To open a Mitchell book is to set forth on an adventure . . . In his latest novel, The Bone Clocks, Mitchell has spun his most far-flung tale yet . . . Strange and magical
Mind-bendingly ambitious . . . The force of [Mitchell's] storytelling makes The Bone Clocks a joy
Mitchell is a superb storyteller . . . One of the reasons he is such a popular and critically lauded writer is that he combines both the giddy, freewheeling ceaselessness of the pure storyteller with the grounded realism of the humanist. There's something for everyone, traditionalist or postmodernist, realist or fantasist
Magical . . . [it] perfectly illustrates the idea that we're all the heroes of our own lives as well as single cogs in a much larger and more beautiful mechanism
Deeply meaningful . . . The Bone Clocks has everything you might expect to find in a David Mitchell novel: Great characters in settings far-flung over space and time, all tied together by ambitious ideas and gorgeous writing
A sweeping epic . . . that, like Cloud Atlas, spans the ages and tinkers with the hidden gears of human history
The overwhelming impression is of an author at the height of his powers precisely because of a deep and intuitive understanding and curiosity of what it is about to live a life as a human being.
Wild, funny, terrifying . . . a slipstream masterpiece all its own
Unmissable
David Mitchell was my favourite author at college - I raved about The Bone Clocks to everyone I met. . . Mitchell's writing is just as magical for me now as it was back then. (R. F. Kuang)
All stars
Most relevant
If you liked Cloud Atlas you'll enjoy this book. A story of past, present, and (briefly) future. I found the female narrator in the third section slightly annoying at first (she seemed to speak too slowly or something) but I soon stopped noticing. I like to listen to audiobooks on walks or while doing housework & this was perfect.

Loved it

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I'm gobsmacked by the depth and breadth of this narrative, the meticulously interwoven strands, the fantastic characterisation and fascinating aspects of magical realism so deftly intermingled which gut-wrenching realism. Absolutely loved it.

My one and only niggle is that a couple of the narrators were absolutely useless when it came to doing accents that were foreign to them, one American/Canadian attempting the British accent of Holly (which sounded absolutely nothing like the Holly of the first or final chapter, an embarrassingly poor Pakistani accent, the unconvincing Russian accents and the beyond dodgy Australian and Noongar accents (yes, they're different). These are minor niggles though and the overall book/audiobook is enthralling and brilliant.

Absolutely amazing!!

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I am a huge fan of David Mitchell, and The Bone Clocks certainly doesn’t disappoint. Epic, sprawling, extraordinarily creative, at times deeply moving and always entertaining. Anyone who has read Mitchell’s earlier novels will recognise a few characters making a return appearance in this story. Brilliant narration makes the 29 hours fly by!

Another brilliant tale from a master storyteller

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Intricate, excellent mind bending and epic tale. Characters grab your attention and off we go. Brilliant.

Stunning.

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The epic story arcs of The Bone Clocks are quite breathtaking. Holly Sykes - 1980s Gravesend girl, with a penchant for Talking Heads - also mixes in near immortal circles.

Another wonderful novel from David Mitchell

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