"Bestseller Moore''s satisfying second Long London urban fantasy . again adroitly blends the fantastic and the mundane . Moore''s worldbuilding is as fascinating as ever. Series fans won''t be disappointed." -- Publishers Weekly "Extraordinary . very funny . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience." -- Susanna Clarke, NYT bestselling author of PIRANESI and JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL on THE GREAT WHEN "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 on THE GREAT WHEN "A dynamite story collection." -- The New York Times Book Review on ILLUMINATIONS "I''m not sure there''s a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore." -- Entertainment Weekly "The next in the series after The Great When (2024), Moore''s latest continues his dramatic, epic love letter to London . Readers will enjoy Dennis'' hapless struggle to get out of yet another visit to the Great When alive as well as the entrancing atmosphere and creatures of that other London." -- Booklist "As much as this novel takes place in the other London, the fantastic and terrifying different city, it also unfolds in locales like Notting Hill, Soho, and Kensington . Moore deftly weaves just the right amount of historical and social context into his tale . How long can Dennis and Grace straddle these two worlds, one ever-changing and the other filled with terrors past and present? Will they ever escape the pull of the Great When? Fans of this series will hope not.
" -- Brian Tanquay, California Review of Books continues his dramatic, epic love letter to London . Readers will enjoy Dennis'' hapless struggle to get out of yet another visit to the Great When alive as well as the entrancing atmosphere and creatures of that other London." -- Booklist "As much as this novel takes place in the other London, the fantastic and terrifying different city, it also unfolds in locales like Notting Hill, Soho, and Kensington . Moore deftly weaves just the right amount of historical and social context into his tale . How long can Dennis and Grace straddle these two worlds, one ever-changing and the other filled with terrors past and present? Will they ever escape the pull of the Great When? Fans of this series will hope not." -- Brian Tanquay, California Review of Books continues his dramatic, epic love letter to London . Readers will enjoy Dennis'' hapless struggle to get out of yet another visit to the Great When alive as well as the entrancing atmosphere and creatures of that other London." -- Booklist "As much as this novel takes place in the other London, the fantastic and terrifying different city, it also unfolds in locales like Notting Hill, Soho, and Kensington .
Moore deftly weaves just the right amount of historical and social context into his tale . How long can Dennis and Grace straddle these two worlds, one ever-changing and the other filled with terrors past and present? Will they ever escape the pull of the Great When? Fans of this series will hope not." -- Brian Tanquay, California Review of Books continues his dramatic, epic love letter to London . Readers will enjoy Dennis'' hapless struggle to get out of yet another visit to the Great When alive as well as the entrancing atmosphere and creatures of that other London." -- Booklist "As much as this novel takes place in the other London, the fantastic and terrifying different city, it also unfolds in locales like Notting Hill, Soho, and Kensington . Moore deftly weaves just the right amount of historical and social context into his tale . How long can Dennis and Grace straddle these two worlds, one ever-changing and the other filled with terrors past and present? Will they ever escape the pull of the Great When? Fans of this series will hope not." -- Brian Tanquay, California Review of Books .
" -- Booklist "As much as this novel takes place in the other London, the fantastic and terrifying different city, it also unfolds in locales like Notting Hill, Soho, and Kensington . Moore deftly weaves just the right amount of historical and social context into his tale . How long can Dennis and Grace straddle these two worlds, one ever-changing and the other filled with terrors past and present? Will they ever escape the pull of the Great When? Fans of this series will hope not." -- Brian Tanquay, California Review of Books.