david mitchell | Snowy Fictions

Getting Horror Right: David Mitchell’s Slade House

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Jun 28, 2021 | Book Recommendations, Book Reviews, literature

Slade House, a 2015 novel by the genre-blending David Mitchell, is a terrific delight. Wrapped with mystery, gothic themes, notions of life and death and thrills, Slade House is a fantastic read. Here’s my Goodreads review: ” Slade House is a fantastic...

Writing With Themes: Lessons From Cloud Atlas

by Madeleine Rose Jones | Apr 19, 2020 | literature, Writing Tips

We can learn a lot regarding themes in creative writing by looking at Cloud Atlas. Cloud Atlas is a fantastic book, brimming with a single theme: the human soul. Spanning centuries and lands, David Mitchell takes us on a journey where the impossible is reality, and...