[1] In 2011, he published his memoirs under the title Come the Revolution, described by critic Peter Craven as 'a great journalist's reflection of the colour and horror of history on the run.
'[2] Dame Carmen Callil, the founder of the renowned feminist publishing house Virago Press, said of the book that 'Mitchell adds two special qualities to a fabulous life: a great heart and a magical pen.'
Mitchell left World in Action to become editor of the Trotskyist daily newspaper, Workers Press, later renamed The News Line, before returning to Sydney in 1986 to join the John Fairfax-owned The Sun-Herald.
Between 1992 and 1994 he was Sun-Herald European correspondent based in London and later became State Political Editor and president of the NSW Parliamentary Press Gallery (2001–07).
In 2022 Mitchell published two further books: A Coup in Canberra (February),[4] a reassessment of the stormy career of Prime Minister Sir John Gorton, and Mountbatten: Britain's Warlord (July).