02320cam a2200385 i 4500 1680523024 TxGeo 20241017120000.0 240326s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781635578843 hbk. 1635578841 hbk. (OCoLC)1458656113 TxGeo rda Moore, Alan, 1953-, author. Great when / Alan Moore. Long London novel Great when. Long London Great when. London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2024] 336 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Long London quintet, The ; 1 "The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles 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 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20241101. Bookstores Fiction. Books Fiction. Antiquarian booksellers Fiction. Magic Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Historical fiction. The Long London quintet ; 1. QS5