The Great When: A Long London Novel

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When Dennis comes into possession of a book that shouldnt 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 Blakes 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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PRAISE FOR ALAN MOORE: '[Alan Moore] is the Shakespeare of the comic book' * Daily Telegraph *
PRAISE FOR ALAN MOORE: Here is an author who possesses a mastery of language teamed with a seemingly limitless imagination, all underpinned by a sanguine, occasionally waspish sense of humour * Financial Times *

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Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.