{"product_id":"the-bone-clocks-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"The Bone Clocks (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMITCHELL, David.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Clocks.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full deep blue-grey leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt decoration to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Brown satin endpapers. Sewn-in satin bookmark. 624 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the tipped-in signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published London: Sceptre; New York: Random House, 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDavid Mitchell (b. 1969) has established himself across nine novels as one of the most ambitious and structurally inventive writers working in English. \u003cem\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003enumber9dream\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Clocks\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2014, was longlisted and won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Stephen King, reviewing it on publication, named it one of the best novels of the year. It is the most ambitious of Mitchell's books in terms of its span, following a single protagonist from adolescence to old age across six decades while simultaneously conducting a metaphysical war in the margins of ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHolly Sykes is sixteen years old in the summer of 1984, living in Gravesend on the Thames Estuary, when she runs away from home after a row with her mother and encounters a strange woman in a café who asks for \"asylum\" in exchange for a small kindness. Holly does not understand what the woman means. The novel follows her life from that summer — through her twenties in Switzerland and Africa, her thirties as a war correspondent in Iraq, her forties as a best-selling author — to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast in the 2040s, by which point the oil supply has failed and civilisation is contracting around the edges. At each stage of her life, Holly's path intersects with a secret conflict she has never been able to see clearly: a centuries-old war between two groups of psychic beings, one of whom harvests the souls of others to achieve something approaching immortality, and the other of whom exists to stop them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMitchell uses the supernatural architecture not as fantasy decoration but as a structural mechanism — a way of examining mortality, time, and the question of what we leave behind us, from multiple angles and across multiple registers simultaneously. The novel is kaleidoscopic where \u003cem\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/em\u003e was nested, moving between voices and tones with a freedom that only a writer of Mitchell's technical confidence could sustain across 624 pages. Fans were openly hoping it would finally catapult Mitchell to Booker Prize recognition; as has often been said, in any other year \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Clocks\u003c\/em\u003e would have been a strong contender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very minor loss to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000533\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49086383194355,"sku":"1110002990588","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_fd1a3538-d1d7-4c39-a75c-d07bda5cd548.png?v=1779148636","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-bone-clocks-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}