Just Finished Reading: “Ghostwritten” by David Mitchell

David Mitchell is probably best known for his novel The Cloud Atlas but as I observed on 31 January, has (allegedly) said he’s writing an uber-novel, so I thought I’d better start with his first book, Ghostwritten.

And although The Cloud Atlas may be Mitchell’s best-known work, Ghostwritten was (is) no slouch either. It debuted to critical praise in 1999, went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for the best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for...