Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

Read in hardback. Has been sitting on my bedside table since nominated for the Booker Prize in 2004. Finally got round to reading it after challenge from Gillian.

Enjoyed the nested structure of the stories, felt some were more successful than others. It's a long book, not to be undertaken lightly.

Read more about it at Booker Prize website.

Black Swan Green, David Mitchell

March Book Club Book, chosen by Rachel. Read in paperback.

A coming of age tale, set in the early 80's. Should be my era. Was bogged down in the middle until I read an Amazon review suggesting the book should be read as a sequence of 30 short stories, each with a beginning, middle and end. Then I got on much better with it and enjoyed it to the end.