<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Mitchell, David 1969-]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Mitchell, David 1969-]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=Mitchell%2C%20David%201969-&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:00:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization; a gentetically engineered "dinery server" on death row - the narrators of this novel hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C352240</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C352240</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/352240037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utopia Avenue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager Levon Frankland, gay, Jewish, and Canadian, is not unduly burdened by conscience. The drummer is a drummer. Over two years and two albums, Utopia Avenue navigates the dark end of the Sixties, its parties, drugs and egos, political change and personal tragedy; and the trials of life as a working band in London, the provinces, European capitals and, finally, the promised land of America. What is art? What is fame? What is music? How can the whole be more than the sum of its parts? Can idealism change the world? How does your youth shape your life? This is the story of Utopia Avenue. Not everyone lives to the end.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1148102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1148102</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1148102037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade -- enthralling in its storytelling, imagination and scope. Set at a turning point in history on a tiny island attached to mainland Japan, David Mitchell's tale of power, passion and integrity transports us to a world that is at once exotic and familiar: an extraordinary place and an era when news from abroad took months to arrive, yet when people behaved as they always do - loving, lusting and yearning, cheating, fighting and killing. Bringing to vivid life a tectonic shift between East and West, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is dramatic, funny, heartbreaking, enlightening and thought-provoking. Reading it is an unforgettable experience.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C676262</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C676262</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/676262037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Swan Green]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys' games on a frozen lake; of "nightcreeping" through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigre who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1563731</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1563731</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1563731037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slade House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents an odd brother and sister extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it's already too late.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1563730</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1563730</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1563730037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bone Clocks]]></title><description><![CDATA[One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking. The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes daughter, sister, mother, guardian is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon. Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this kaleidoscopic novel crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C851231</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C851231</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/851231037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghostwritten]]></title><description><![CDATA[An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. Add to this - a Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause and effect.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C685485</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C685485</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/685485037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utopia Avenue]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1164303</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1164303</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell, David 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1164303037</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slade House]]></title><description><![CDATA[Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. 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Using a question and answer format, Naoki explains why he talks loudly or repeats the same questions, and why he likes to jump. Abundantly proving that people with autism do possess imagination, humour and empathy, he also makes clear how badly they need our compassion, patience and understanding.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1265161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1265161</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Higashida, Naoki, 1992-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1265161037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Inner Voice of A Thirteen-year-old Boy With Autism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francis Upritchard]]></title><description><![CDATA[This artist's book, published on the occasion of Francis Upritchard's exhibition In die Höhle (In hell) at the Vienna Secession in 2010, stands out in its extraordinary design and conception. The new installation's themes included the exhibition history of the institution as well as Hippie or New Age counter-cultures. Upritchard questions hegemonic attitudes of mainstream culture, and its definition, for example, of the 'exotic', or the differentiation between 'critical' and 'decorative'. The bestselling British author David Mitchell has created a parallel literary narrative to Upritchard's work with a new short story written especially for the book.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C753606</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C753606</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[mul]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Upritchard, Francis, 1976-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/753606037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>In Die Höhle</subtitle><language>mul</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>