The Great When

SKU: 9781526643230
The Great When

The Great When

SKU: 9781526643230
Author: Alan Moore
C-Format·Ages 18+
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At a glance

🌙 Fantasy Realm & Tone
Strange, dark, imaginative, atmospheric
⚡ Story Pace
Richly layered, immersive, steadily unfolding
✨ Fantasy Vibes
Hidden Londons, occult mystery, surreal magic, dangerous knowledge
👑 Fantasy Themes
Reality versus illusion, power, creativity, hidden worlds
🔮 Magic & Mystery
A mysterious book opens the door to a secret magical version of London
🔥 Fantasy Hook
A young bookseller becomes entangled in a bizarre supernatural underworld hidden beneath postwar London
🧝 Perfect Fantasy Readers
Fans of intelligent urban fantasy, literary magic, and dark surreal worlds
📖 Readers Who’ll Love This Fantasy Book
Readers who enjoy atmospheric fantasy fiction filled with occult mysteries, layered storytelling, and imaginative world-building

The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital is Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen-year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?

Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks bizarre and disastrous repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse).

So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both London's forever.

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
336
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Published
1 October 2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781526643230

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