Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical novel written by David Mitchell, published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK.

The novel is written from the perspective of Taylor and employs many teen colloquialisms and popular-culture references from early-1980s England.

It also introduces Jason's older sister Julia, friend Dean "Moron" Moran, popular boy Nick Yew, Gilbert "Yardy" Swinyard, Ross Wilcox and his cousin Gary Drake, golden boy student Neal Brose, tomboy Dawn Madden, Mervyn "Squelch" Hill, bully Grant Burch, local legend Tom Yew and "less shiny legend" Pluto Noak.

Jason secretly publishes his poems in the Black Swan Green Parish magazine under the alias "Eliot Bolivar".

He's scared to stand up and speak during the school's weekly rhetoric session, but is saved by a call from his South African speech therapist, Mrs. de Roo.

Escaping up a tree, Jason witnesses Tom Yew, on leave from the Navy, make love to Debby Crombie.

This chapter explores Jason's perspective on the growing British instability in the Falklands War and arguments between his mother and father.

Jason finds an invitation to join the Spooks, a local secret society made up of Noak, Burch, Swinyard, Peter Redmarley and John Tookey.

Jason makes it with ten seconds to spare, but his friend Moran is injured when he falls through a greenhouse.

The real benefactor is revealed to be Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck (a much younger version of whom also has a part in Cloud Atlas).

Jason goes on two trips: one with his father for a work event, another with his mother to her job at Yasmin Morton-Bagot's gallery.

Jason's mother takes over as manager of Yasmin Morton-Bagot's gallery, La Boite aux Mille Surprises.

In shock, Wilcox steals Tom Yew's Suzuki and crashes it, losing part of his right leg.

After being taken to the Principal's office, Jason reveals that Brose has been running an extortion scheme intimidating other boys in his year for money.

[2] On Metacritic, the book received a 81 out of 100 based on 22 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".