Black Swan secrets revealed
David Mitchell talks about his new fiction, Black Swan Green
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DAVID MITCHELL
Wednesday 30 May, 7pm, Rutherford Theatre, 76 Portland Place, W1 £7 (0845 456 9876)The Booker-nominated novelist talks about his new, uncharacteristically straightforward book Black Swan Green. After three time-bending, multi-stranded novels embracing sci-fi, Japanese gangsters and classical music, this one takes the linear route through one year – 1982 – of a stuttering teen boy's life in the titular Worcestershire village. Expect family conflict, the Falklands, trouble with girls and lots of British Bulldog.