The Great When

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A dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London fictional and real by a legend of modern fantasy

‘It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience this shows us something absolutely new’ Susanna Clarke
‘A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying’ Iain Sinclair
‘Unmistakably Alan’ John Higgs
‘A beautiful riot’ Guardian

I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. Id fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.

The year 1949, the city London.

Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Denniss life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldnt exist; an entirely fictional book from inside another novel.

The book hails fr