I’ve spent a lot of my life waiting for new books by David Mitchell. The man might well be one of the best and brightest writers of fiction in Britain, but alas, for he’s far from fast.
Though his first few books came out in relatively quick succession, there were four years between the release of Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, and another four between that latter and last year’s The Bone Clocks. To wit, till this morning, I wouldn’t have expected its successor to see store shelves until 2018 at least—nor, it seems, would Carole Welch, the publishing director of Spectre.
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