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D.M. Mitchell
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Pisze książki: kryminał, sensacja, thriller
D. M. Mitchell has been compared to Ruth Rendell, Martina Cole, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Linwood Barclay, Dickens and even the Bronte sisters! This wide array of writing styles is appropriate - though Mitchell is known for his psychological thrillers, he is determined that each of them will be different, so they might be set in different eras, may be straightforward thrillers or have a supernatural or horror twist, and he avoids like the plague the standard and unimaginative serial killer format! You'll find he uses different styles of writing to suit different types of books - it also keeps him from getting bored...
D. M. Mitchell was born into a small mining community in Yorkshire, England. His career advisor said he had two options - go down the mines or become a policeman. Being scared of the dark and never having much meat on his bones, he declined both and in his early years bounced like a pinball from job to job - warehouses, cinema projectionist, market trader, salesman - you get the picture. He sort of made a success of himself and now lives in a money-pit of a cottage in a tiny village in the cream tea heart of the South West of England. His first remembered attempt at pushing the boundaries of creative writing was during a school lesson at the age of nine. Titled simply 'Rain' his proud masterpiece began with 'It started to rain' then there followed eight pages of nothing but the words 'pitter-patter', concluding with 'and then it stopped'. It was handed over and duly reviewed by his brick wall of a teacher, whose eyebrows flickered up and down ominously, his cheeks flushing bright red, before declaring it total rubbish. He tore it up into ribbons, showered him with his first, and no doubt only tickertape ceremony, and gave him a meaty slap around the head (they could do that sort of thing in 1967). He made him write 'I will not write stupid things for eight pages' for eight pages. Thus he learnt a number of valuable early lessons - the meaning of irony, writing is very subjective, everyone's a critic, and no-one likes a smart-arse. He persevered, his first novel appearing in 1986 and disappearing into the attic the same year. It's still up there. Many manuscripts later he used to save the piles of rejection slips to paper his bare walls. So the adage is, keep at it, in these times of economic depression you'll soon have the house fully redecorated. Nowadays, writing is the one thing he feels totally comfortable with, except perhaps for a cup of Horlicks on a cold winter's night when the rain goes pitter-patter against the window panes (there it is again...). Characterisation is an important and noticeable aspect of all Mitchell's novels. It allows him to be whoever he wants to be when he gets fed up of being himself, which is quite often. So too is a sense of mystery and the exploration of the darker side to humanity. There are always strong elements of a complex puzzle to be solved in a D M Mitchell novel, many disparate parts ultimately coming together, tragedy and comedy sitting side by side. As in life, nothing is as it first seems. He takes a keen interest in history, a thread which runs through his writing, whether it's the 1960s or 1970s, as in 'Max' and 'Pressure Cooker', or the Victorian 1880s, as in 'The House of the Wicked'. His favourite novelists include Barry Unsworth, Thomas Hardy, John Steinbeck and Graham Swift. Top two favourite historical books: Culloden, by John Prebble and The Face of Battle by John Keegan. He also collects first edition novels and takes a keen interest in anything old, tatty and in need of love and restoration. His wife says he needs to get out more. He has three grown children and also enjoys photography, painting and walking the Blackdown Hills with his wife and an overly excitable Border Terrier - or is that an overly-excitable wife and a Border Terrier... One of the two. He'd like to thank his growing legion of fans for allowing him to practice being a writer and sharing in his strange and lurid imaginings.
D. M. Mitchell was born into a small mining community in Yorkshire, England. His career advisor said he had two options - go down the mines or become a policeman. Being scared of the dark and never having much meat on his bones, he declined both and in his early years bounced like a pinball from job to job - warehouses, cinema projectionist, market trader, salesman - you get the picture. He sort of made a success of himself and now lives in a money-pit of a cottage in a tiny village in the cream tea heart of the South West of England. His first remembered attempt at pushing the boundaries of creative writing was during a school lesson at the age of nine. Titled simply 'Rain' his proud masterpiece began with 'It started to rain' then there followed eight pages of nothing but the words 'pitter-patter', concluding with 'and then it stopped'. It was handed over and duly reviewed by his brick wall of a teacher, whose eyebrows flickered up and down ominously, his cheeks flushing bright red, before declaring it total rubbish. He tore it up into ribbons, showered him with his first, and no doubt only tickertape ceremony, and gave him a meaty slap around the head (they could do that sort of thing in 1967). He made him write 'I will not write stupid things for eight pages' for eight pages. Thus he learnt a number of valuable early lessons - the meaning of irony, writing is very subjective, everyone's a critic, and no-one likes a smart-arse. He persevered, his first novel appearing in 1986 and disappearing into the attic the same year. It's still up there. Many manuscripts later he used to save the piles of rejection slips to paper his bare walls. So the adage is, keep at it, in these times of economic depression you'll soon have the house fully redecorated. Nowadays, writing is the one thing he feels totally comfortable with, except perhaps for a cup of Horlicks on a cold winter's night when the rain goes pitter-patter against the window panes (there it is again...). Characterisation is an important and noticeable aspect of all Mitchell's novels. It allows him to be whoever he wants to be when he gets fed up of being himself, which is quite often. So too is a sense of mystery and the exploration of the darker side to humanity. There are always strong elements of a complex puzzle to be solved in a D M Mitchell novel, many disparate parts ultimately coming together, tragedy and comedy sitting side by side. As in life, nothing is as it first seems. He takes a keen interest in history, a thread which runs through his writing, whether it's the 1960s or 1970s, as in 'Max' and 'Pressure Cooker', or the Victorian 1880s, as in 'The House of the Wicked'. His favourite novelists include Barry Unsworth, Thomas Hardy, John Steinbeck and Graham Swift. Top two favourite historical books: Culloden, by John Prebble and The Face of Battle by John Keegan. He also collects first edition novels and takes a keen interest in anything old, tatty and in need of love and restoration. His wife says he needs to get out more. He has three grown children and also enjoys photography, painting and walking the Blackdown Hills with his wife and an overly excitable Border Terrier - or is that an overly-excitable wife and a Border Terrier... One of the two. He'd like to thank his growing legion of fans for allowing him to practice being a writer and sharing in his strange and lurid imaginings.
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Blackdown D.M. Mitchell
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D. M. Mitchell, Anglik pochodzący z górniczego Yorkshire, miał dwie opcje. Mógł zostać górnikiem albo policjantem. Sęk w tym, że cierpiał na klaustrofobię i bał się ciemności, a na dodatek uchodził za chuderlaka. Dlatego właśnie zdecydował się na karierę pisarską i przez długie lata dorabiał jako magazynier, operator projektora kinowego i przedstawiciel handlowy. Jednocześnie pisał i pisał. Jak dotąd napisał już ponad dwadzieścia książek. Żadna z nich nie została wydana w Polsce i również Blackdown nie został przetłumaczony na nasz piękny język. A szkoda – to nie jest zła literatura.
Blackdown to kryminał, którego akcja rozpoczyna się tuż po klęsce Napoleona pod Waterloo. Jeden z żołnierzy otrzymuje list od swojego brata, którego nie widział od kilkunastu lat. Brat prosi go o pilny powrót do domu, co mężczyźnie nie bardzo się uśmiecha. Jako nastolatek zwędził broń ojcu i… zastrzelił swoją matkę. Oczywiście to był wypadek, ale papa oświadczył, że nie chce go już nigdy widzieć. Dlatego właśnie chłopak trafił do armii i przez długie lata nocował pod gwiazdami, dbając jedynie o to, żeby mu proch nie zamókł. Czy to możliwe, żeby ojciec mu wybaczył? I dlaczego brat, którego bohater pamięta jako dziecko, nagle żąda jego powrotu?
Okazuje się, że w rodzinnych stronach sporo się dzieje. Ojciec stracił większość majątku na walce z oskarżeniami o szpiegostwo na rzecz Francji. Brat z kolei nie żyje i wszystko wskazuje na to, że został zagryziony przez grasującą w okolicy tajemniczą bestię. Bohater postanawia przyjrzeć się bliżej sprawie i rozpoczyna prywatne śledztwo, które szybko doprowadzi go na ślad pewnego spisku o całkiem sporych rozmiarach. Czeka go również pojedynek na ringu z cyrkowym osiłkiem, parę kolejnych trupów i związany z tym pobyt w więzieniu.
Blackdown nie jest trudną lekturą. To prosty angielski, sprawnie wykorzystany do opisania ciekawych wydarzeń. Niezłe opisy, wiarygodne dialogi, barwny świat niewielkiego miasteczka z początków XIX wieku – podobnych powieści na polskim rynku nie ma wiele. Nie ma też i Blackdowna; pozostaje więc angielski oryginał bądź e-book dostępny chociażby na Amazonie…
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