In my mind, they are the one and the same. (Check out comedian David Mitchell's Twitter bio: "This is the David Mitchell who's in Peep Show and things, not the novelist or the former Tory MP.")

Black Swan Green was actually the first David Mitchell book I read - it was fortuitously assigned as summer reading for AP Lit my senior year of high school. It's a fairly straightforward bildungsroman, but it's still wonderfully written and very Mitchell. I would 100% recommend reading it.

The things I would do for a half-dark special with mild sauce right now….

OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN.
Rest in peace, Robin. You brought so much joy and laughter to so many. I'm going to go watch the Birdcage on Netflix and weep a bit.