{"product_id":"9781526643247","title":"The Great When: A Long London Novel","description":"Author: Moore, Alan\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526643247\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 06 Jan 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. I'd fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e The year 1949, the city London.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Dennis's life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldn't exist; an entirely fictional book from inside \u003ci\u003eanother\u003c\/i\u003e novel.\u003cbr\u003e The book hails from The Great When, a magical shadow-London, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts like Crime, Poetry and Riot are incarnated as mystical beings that stalk the streets. This discovery brings terrible danger, as the book's presence leaves the doorway open between the two Londons, and The Great When must remain a secret.\u003cbr\u003e Soon Dennis finds himself in the city's occult underbelly, negotiating sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers     some imaginary, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. If Dennis cannot return the book and close the gate, he risks dire repercussions...\u003cbr\u003e Neither London will ever be the same again.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHistory collides with magic in \u003ci\u003eThe Great When\u003c\/i\u003e. Dark, ridiculous, propulsive, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller Alan Moore opens the gates to capital metafictional chaos in the genre-busting first instalment of the Long London series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e'It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience  - this shows us something absolutely new' \u003cb\u003eSusanna Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' \u003cb\u003eIain Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' \u003cb\u003eAdam Curtis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'A weird book and a complete joy' \u003cb\u003eMariana Enraquez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cb\u003eHeather Parry\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509053145246,"sku":"UBD-9781526643247","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526643247.jpg?v=1780640639","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526643247","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}