This month we will be taking a loot at&nbs p\;The Great When by Alan Moore. \;
\n"The year is 1949\, the city London. Amidst t he smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard\, a hapless eighteen ye ar-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day\, on an errand to acqui re books for sale\, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. I t is a fictitious book\, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physicall y there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great Wh en\, a magical version of London beyond time and space\, where reality blu rs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wo ndrous\, terrible beings. But this other\, magical London must remain a se cret: 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 wo rse). So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly a nd tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers\, gangsters\, and murderer s - 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..."
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