"Moore is a wizardly prose stylist whose sentences flow in a Joycean stream . If you''re looking for a writer to ensorcell you in a saga of hard-boiled crime and surrealist horror, here is your magus." -- The Wall Street Journal "Extraordinary . very funny . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience." -- Susanna Clarke, New York Times bestselling author of PIRANESI and JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL "The worldbuilding is extraordinary and the plot is utterly gripping. Readers are sure to be sucked in." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review " The Great When is a corker .

Moore is entirely in charge here, confident and witty and pulling us along. The Great When is the first book in The Long London Quintet. If you read it, that fact will make you very happy indeed." -- Parade "[A] wondrous and polyphonic adventure . Maximalism is *in* again, folks: strap in and have yourself a blast." -- Electric Literature "Like Dickens, Alan Moore has us waiting on the dock, impatient for the next installment of his breathless, time-travelling classic. A preternaturally convincing hallucination from London''s fetid past transports us, in some mysterious way, over the abyss of our impoverished post-digital present. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying: and that''s just the first page.

Now read on." -- Iain Sinclair "A profound, gorgeous novel of secret magics and lost souls." -- Sunyi Dean, USA Today bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS "Alan Moore is a visionary artist and a myth maker, and in The Great When he delivers the mystical core of the occult tradition of London: a fantasy novel that features Arthur Machen, Austin Osman Spare, an alternative world that is more real than ours, bookstores, crime and a city traumatized by the war. And he does this with fun, with challenging and beautiful writing, with delight and with the knowledge that there are portals and only a few can access them. This is a weird book and it''s a complete joy." -- Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT " The Great When , a book with a keen sense of the uncanny, has a pleasant lightness." -- The New York Times Book Review "Moore constructs a world that blurs the lines between the seen and unseen, tethering his vision to both historical touchstones and a magickal alternate dimension. This is not just a story; it is also an act of literary alchemy that challenges readers to question the realities they take for granted-and to revel in the shadow world of their own imaginations.

" -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal never-ending." -- Financial Times "A rollicking adventure." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two "Moore''s latest is a love letter to the city of London, full of small ironies and nods to the history and character of its neighborhoods as well as its resilience post-WWII." -- Booklist "A wildly kinetic and entertaining adventure . as well as a kind of postwar coming-of-age tale for its young protagonist and his spirited companion." -- Locus Magazine "In his expansive and ambitious new novel, The Great When , Alan Moore pens a love letter to art, literature and London that''s sure to capture readers'' imaginations . He illuminates every little detail of a London reeling from the end of the war, and his joy in doing so is palpable; this book is as much a celebration of our London as it is the creation of a new one. Characters are so vividly rendered that you can practically see them in full-color illustrations .

Readers seeking big ideas and colorful splashes of language will love exploring The Great When -and look forward to future entries in the Long London series." -- BookPage "[ The Great When with fun, with challenging and beautiful writing, with delight and with the knowledge that there are portals and only a few can access them. This is a weird book and it''s a complete joy." -- Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT " The Great When , a book with a keen sense of the uncanny, has a pleasant lightness." -- The New York Times Book Review "Moore constructs a world that blurs the lines between the seen and unseen, tethering his vision to both historical touchstones and a magickal alternate dimension. This is not just a story; it is also an act of literary alchemy that challenges readers to question the realities they take for granted-and to revel in the shadow world of their own imaginations." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal never-ending." -- Financial Times "A rollicking adventure.

" -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two "Moore''s latest is a love letter to the city of London, full of small ironies and nods to the history and character of its neighborhoods as well as its resilience post-WWII." -- Booklist "A wildly kinetic and entertaining adventure . as well as a kind of postwar coming-of-age tale for its young protagonist and his spirited companion." -- Locus Magazine "In his expansive and ambitious new novel, The Great When , Alan Moore pens a love letter to art, literature and London that''s sure to capture readers'' imaginations . He illuminates every little detail of a London reeling from the end of the war, and his joy in doing so is palpable; this book is as much a celebration of our London as it is the creation of a new one. Characters are so vividly rendered that you can practically see them in full-color illustrations . Readers seeking big ideas and colorful splashes of language will love exploring The Great When -and look forward to future entries in the Long London series." -- BookPage "[ The Great When st is a love letter to the city of London, full of small ironies and nods to the history and character of its neighborhoods as well as its resilience post-WWII.

" -- Booklist "A wildly kinetic and entertaining adventure . as well as a kind of postwar coming-of-age tale for its young protagonist and his spirited companion." -- Locus Magazine "In his expansive and ambitious new novel, The Great When , Alan Moore pens a love letter to art, literature and London that''s sure to capture readers'' imaginations . He illuminates every little detail of a London reeling from the end of the war, and his joy in doing so is palpable; this book is as much a celebration of our London as it is the creation of a new one. Chara with fun, with challenging and beautiful writing, with delight and with the knowledge that there are portals and only a few can access them. This is a weird book and it''s a complete joy." -- Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT " The Great When , a book with a keen sense of the uncanny, has a pleasant lightness." -- The New York Times Book Review "Moore constructs a world that blurs the lines between the seen and unseen, tethering his vision to both historical touchstones and a magickal alternate dimension.

This is not just a story; it is also an act of literary alchemy that challenges readers to question the realities they take for granted-and to revel in the shadow world of their own imaginations." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal never-ending." -- Financial Times "A rollicking adventure." -- Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Part Two "Moore''s latest is a love letter to the city of London, full of small ironies and nods to the history and character of its neighborhoods as well as its resilience post-WWII." -- Booklist "A wildly kinetic and entertaining adventure . as well as a kind of postwar coming-of-age tale for its young protagonist and his spirited companion." -- Locus Magazine "In his expansive and ambitious new novel, The Great When , Alan Moore pens a love letter to art, literature and London that''s sure to capture readers'' imaginations . He illuminates every little detail of a London reeling from the end of the war, and his joy in doing so is palpable; this book is as much a celebration of our London as it is the creation of a new one.

Characters are so vividly rendered that you can practically see them in full-color illustrations . Readers seeking big ideas and colorful splashes of language will love exploring The Great When -and look forward to future entries in the Long London series." -- BookPage "[ The Great When with fun, with challenging and beautiful writing, with delight and with the knowledge that there are portals and only a few can access them. This is a weird book and it''s a complete joy." -- Mariana Enríquez, author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT " The Great When , a book with a keen sense of the uncanny, has a pleasant lightness." -- The New York Times Book Review "Moore constructs a world that blurs the lines between the seen and unseen, tethering his vision to both historical touchstones and a magickal alternate dimension. This is not just a story; it is also an act of literary alchemy that challenges readers to question the realities they take for granted-and to revel in the shadow world of their own imaginations." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Moore makes.