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    David Mitchell


    Born

    in Southport, The United Kingdom

    January 12, 1969


    Website

    http://www.davidmitchellbooks.com/


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    Genre

    Fiction


    Influences

    John Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLilloJohn Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Russell Hoban, Italo Calvino, Peter Carey, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Wright, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Joyce...more


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    David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed bygd an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to okänt, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two chil
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    David Mitchell Biography

    David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, Ghostwritten and The Bone Clocks. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir, The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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    David Mitchell

    Praise for Unruly

    Unruly is part Horrible Histories part jolly romp guided by Alan Bennett. Perhaps this is how history should be done: not by patient scholars, but by free-swearing actor-comedianscramming more ideas and j ...

    Guardian

    Full of jokes and canny insights, 100 per cent sparkier and more revernt than your school textbooks

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    An enjoyable, rollicking read, definitely not a conventional history book

    Sunday Times

    Unruly is part Horrible Histories part jolly romp guided by Alan Bennett. Perhaps this is how history should be done: not by patient scholars, but by free-swearing actor-comedianscramming more ideas and j ...

    Guardian

    Full of jokes and canny insights, 100 per cent sparkier and more revernt than your school textbooks

    I

    An enjoyable, rollicking read, definitely not a conventional history book

    Sunday Times

    Unruly is part Horrible Histories part jolly romp guided by Alan Bennett. Perhaps this is how history sh