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Photo: AFP / FILE When author David Mitchell's son was diagnosed with autism at three years old, the British author and his wife Keiko Yoshida felt lost, unsure of what was happening inside their son’s head. In an effort to find answers, Yoshida ordered a book from Japan written by non-verbal autistic teenager Naoki Higashida. Entitled The Reason I Jump, the book was a revelation for the couple who gained a deeper understanding into their son’s behaviours. The pair went on to translate the book into English, and it has since inspired a documentary film of the same name, following the dai...

How David Mitchell connected Utopia Avenue to his previous books Christian Holub In one sense, David Mitchell published a new novel this year, titled Utopia Avenue. But in another sense, it was just the latest installment in the great meta-novel that Mitchell has been writing for his whole career. Some of Mitchell's novels are very focused on a specific time and place. Utopia Avenue, for instance, is the story of an eponymous '60s British rock band, while 2010's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is set entirely in the Japanese city of Nagasaki in the late 18th century, ...