The Great When : A Long London Novel
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One of our greatest living storytellers takes a tour through the
dark and beguiling streets of a magical London: history and myth
collide in this story of magic and murder by Sunday Times
bestselling master of modern fantasy Alan Moore.The year is 1949,
the city London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old
who works and lives above a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an
errand to retrieve rare books, Dennis discovers a book that simply
does not exist.It is a fictitious book, yet it is physically there
in his hands nonetheless. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from
the Great When, a dark and magical version of London that is beyond
time. There, epochs blend and reality blurs with unreality, while
concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous and
terrible beings.If Dennis does not take this book back to the other
London, he will be no more. So begins a journey delving deep into
the city’s occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of
sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers – some legendary, some all too
real, and all with their own intentions. Soon Dennis finds himself
at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and
endanger both Londons forever…Magnificently written, propulsive and
darkly sparkling with humour, The Great When is Moore’s most
imaginative work yet, and the first in the fantastic new Long
London series.‘Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative’ Adam
Curtis‘A masterful step from one of our very best, uncompromising
storytellers, Moore peels back the layers of London and reveals not
only the history we know, but the histories that could have been,
and, underneath it all, both the dark and beautiful truths about
who we are as a nation.’ Heather Parry
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Alan Moore ,
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
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Alan Moore,
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
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