David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas

Hearing that David Mitchell is to serialise his latest work through Twitter, brought to mind his novel Cloud Atlas; it is a clever construction with multiple narrators - six of them actually - linked through time, so the reader is transported both into the past and the future. It works, too - though we found the device of the birth mark a little clunky.

Reading it (or seeing the film, come to that) leaves you pondering the fact that one small act, in one small place in a corner of our world can, in time, connect humans in a way that is both disturbing and uplifting.

One to dwell on...