David Mitchell is a writer of the first water. This is the second book of his that I have read and reviewed for this column (his excellent book “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” being the first) ...

An intricately interwoven tale of six stories set in different times and places, Mitchell's 2004 novel is "a wonderful book that is hard to describe," writes Gates. Though its "mind-bending nesting ...

My best friend from childhood, a ravenous science fiction reader, has been bugging me for several years to pick up David Mitchell’s 2004 novel Cloud Atlas. Since my friend once read every Hugo Award ...

The directing trio will shoot the historic/sci fi epic -- starring Halle Berry and Tom Hanks -- in parallel using two complete teams. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The film is based on David ...

It's not often that any fiction writer, much less a foreign one, ends up being chased down a Shanghai street by a gaggle of fans. Yet that's just what happened British author David Mitchell on a ...