Long London, Book 1 : The Great When

The year is 1949, the city London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, on an errand to retrieve rare books, Dennis discovers that one of them does not exist. It is a fictitious book, yet it is physically there in his hands nonetheless. How?

Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other London must remain a secret : if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks bizarrre and disastrous repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (of worse).

So begins a journeydelving deep into the city’s occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters and murderers- some from legend, some all too real, and each 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.