Black Swan Green

Limited first edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 378. Publisher's forest green boards, lettered in silver foil to spine, illustrated endpapers. No dustwrapper, as issued. In shrink-wrapped matching slipcase. 1/1000 copies signed by the Author.

Mitchell's fourth novel. Longlisted for the 2006 MAN Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award. A New York Times Notable Book. Selected as one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists for 2003. A coming of age novel, chronicling a year in the life of Jason Taylor, an imaginative 13-year-old who stammers, writes poetry, worries about his reputation among his peers, and has a knack for encountering the oddest people. "[A] brilliant new novel." –The New York Times Book Review