{"title":"Alan Moore","description":"Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell,  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lost Girls. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Jerusalem and The Great When. He was born in Northampton and has lived there ever since.","products":[{"product_id":"i-hear-a-new-world-hardcover","title":"I Hear a New World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the second book in the Long London Series, a daringly inventive fantasy novel about murder, mayhem, and magic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical version of London, until he rediscovers an unpleasant reminder of his last adventure-a key that he'd secretly brought into his own world from the other for safekeeping. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut while Dennis may believe he's done with the Great When, it's far from done with him. When Dennis gives the key to a friend, its magical properties reawaken, bringing creatures from the other world into Dennis's and sparking riots in Notting Hill. Even worse, Dennis's old crush Grace Shilling has been forced into the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesperate to keep Grace safe, Dennis follows her into Long London. But once inside the other city, it will not let him go away again so easily, and Dennis and Grace must fight to set things right in the Great When and their own world, or forever lose their lives-and each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of Moore's characteristically stunning world building and rollicking prose, \u003ci\u003eI Hear a New World\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary second adventure in the Long London series.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101948678367,"sku":"9781635578881","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qVaKhc7EQX9781635578881.webp?v=1781075942"},{"product_id":"the-great-when-a-long-london-novel-paperback","title":"The Great When: A Long London Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new series about murder, magic, and madness set between two Londons-one recovering from World War II, and one a secret world unlike any other.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience.\" -Susanna Clarke, \u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePiranesi \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJonathan Strange \u0026amp; Mr Norrell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1949, amidst the smog of London, Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop, discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, one only existing within another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDennis 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, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks facing gruesome and grave repercussions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some from legend, some frighteningly real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the center of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons forever . . .","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102204334303,"sku":"9781639737345","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MsQ-BHyb1h9781639737345.webp?v=1781079137"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alan-moore.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}