The Great When

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Step into a London where history and magic intertwine in The Great When. This dark and thrilling tale follows Dennis, a second-hand bookseller, as he uncovers a mysterious book that leads him into a shadowy, magical version of the city.

A gripping blend of metafiction and fantasy set against post-war London.

Set in 1949, London is still recovering from the aftermath of war when Dennis stumbles upon a novel that shouldn’t exist, a book from inside another novel. This discovery pulls him into The Great When, a magical shadow-London where the lines between reality and fiction blur.

In this alternate London, abstract ideas like Crime, Poetry, and Riot take on physical forms, roaming the streets as mystical beings. The book’s existence threatens to keep the gateway between the two Londons open, and the secret of The Great When must be protected at all costs.

Diving deeper into the city’s occult underworld, Dennis encounters sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers, some imaginary, some terrifyingly real, each with their own agendas. If he can’t return the book and close the portal, the consequences will be dire, and neither London will ever be the same.

Alan Moore, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, delivers a dark, propulsive, and genre-defying journey through both the real and fantastical streets of London in this first installment of the Long London series.

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