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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - The Eloquent Page
A special illustrated edition of the stunningly original and brilliant first novel from a storytelling genius. Under the streets of London there’s a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There’s a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining… And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. I’ve always considered Neverwhere to be the granddaddy of modern urban fantasy. Thinking about all the excellent books I’ve read since I started The Eloquent Page, I’m sure there are many who owe their genesis to Gaiman’s masterwork. Books like The City’s Son by Tom Pollock, Sixty One Nails by...
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