David Mitchell

With his spectacular new novel Utopia Avenue, literary jack-of-all-trades David Mitchell has once again hit the mark: Times, Guardian and Sunday Express chose the novel as book of the year!

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder.

David Mitchell, born in 1969 in Southport, Lancashire, is considered one of the greatest contemporary storytellers. His subject is nothing less than the whole world. The wealth of ideas, images and plots, the vastness of the panorama of times, settings, characters, worlds and details that characterize his novels is unique. His work has won him the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, among others, and he has twice been on the Booker shortlist. In 2011 he received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, and in 2015 the World Fantasy Award for The Bone Clocks. Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. His bestselling novel Cloud Atlas was made into a film by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings.