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The Great When
A propulsive tour through a fantastical London, where history and myth collide, murder stalks the streets and the mundane becomes very magical indeed...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 Londons forever.Thrilling, lyrical and sparkling with dark humour, The Great When is the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore.'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair?Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' Adam Curtis'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez?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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I Hear A New World
'Extraordinary' Susanna Clarke, bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellA continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London - fictional and real - by a legend of modern fantasy It's 1958. A time of Rock and Roll, of protest, riot and change. and London is full of danger. Dennis Knuckleyard is finally growing up, and above all he wants to leave the Great When in the past. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical shadow version of London, managing even to palm off what should've been his last souvenir of that experience - an iron key he secretly brought back. But while Dennis may believe he's done with the Great When, it's not done with him. The unsuspecting rube now in possession of the key has discovered its magical properties, bringing forth mythic, occult beings into Dennis's London and sparking riots in the capital. Worse still, Dennis hears his first love Grace has returned to the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities. Desperate to keep Grace safe and return London to normal, Dennis follows her back into the hidden city. But once it has him back, The Great When will not let him go away again so easily. He and Grace must fight to set things right or forever lose everything. Electrifying, absurd, magical and more true than you might believe, I Hear A New World takes the reader back to Long London for a thrilling and fantastical second instalment. Praise for The Great When: the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore. 'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair 'Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' Adam Curtis 'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez 'Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience' Susanna Clarke
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The Great When
When Dennis comes into possession of a book that shouldn't exist, a new chapter in his life begins and a different, alternate London reveals itself - and with it a cast of characters each more unlikely and fantastical than the last. Long London occupies precisely the same geographical space as our London - but it is a city built from dreamscapes and art, from fiction and nightmares. This is the London of penny dreadfuls and William Blake's dark woodcuts, colliding with Dennis' own time - that of a post-war capital, not long rebuilding itself from its own recent nightmare of war and bombing. This series will be a mad and magical A to Z of the greatest city on earth - with a tale of friendship, murder, betrayal and mischief and the very centre of the map...
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I hear a new world. Un nuovo mondo. Long London. Vol. 2
Il tanto atteso secondo libro dell'emozionante pentalogia di Alan Moore vede Londra invasa dalle rivolte e dal rock'n'roll, mentre Dennis scopre che Grace si trova nella mistica e agghiacciante versione occulta della capitale inglese, il Grande Quando... È il 1958. Un'epoca segnata dal rock'n'roll, dalle proteste e dai cambiamenti... e Londra è costellata di pericoli. Dennis Knuckleyard è cresciuto e desidera lasciarsi alle spalle il Grande Quando più di ogni altra cosa al mondo. Per nove anni ha evitato persino di pensare alla magica versione oscura di Londra, riuscendo a sbarazzarsi anche dell'ultimo souvenir di quell'esperienza: una chiave di ferro che aveva segretamente portato con sé. Ma sebbene Dennis creda di aver chiuso con il Grande Quando, è quest'ultimo a non aver ancora finito con lui. La chiave, ora nelle mani di un povero stolto, si attiva evocando creature mitiche che portano scompiglio nella Londra di Dennis, il quale viene anche a sapere che Grace, per la quale aveva una cotta, ha fatto ritorno nel Grande Quando per indagare sugli strani avvenimenti che si stanno verificando in entrambe le città. Desideroso di proteggerla e di riportare Londra alla normalità, decide di seguirla nell'altra Londra. Ma una volta tornato tra le sue grinfie, andarsene non sarà un'impresa facile. Tocca a Grace lottare per ristabilire l'equilibrio... o finire col perdere ogni cosa. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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The Great When
A Long London Novel€ 20,95 -
The Great When
A Long London Novel€ 32,95