{"product_id":"i-hear-a-new-world-long-london-2","title":"I Hear a New World (Long London #2)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlan Moore \u003c\/b\u003eis widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Hell, \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003e Lost Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \n\u003ci\u003eJerusalem \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eThe Great When\u003c\/i\u003e. He was born in Northampton and has lived there ever since. \n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eSusanna Clarke, NYT bestselling author of PIRANESI and JONATHAN STRANGE \u0026amp; MR NORRELL on THE GREAT WHEN\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal on THE GREAT WHEN\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A dynamite story collection.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review on ILLUMINATIONS\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The next in the series after \n\u003ci\u003eThe Great When \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eBrian Tanquay, California Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\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\n\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. \n\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. \n\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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of Moore's characteristically stunning world building and rollicking prose, \n\u003ci\u003eI Hear a New World\u003c\/i\u003e is the extraordinary second adventure in the Long London series. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/13\/2026 (EAN 9781635578881, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781635578881, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eMoore, Alan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlan Moore \u003c\/b\u003eis an English writer widely regarded as the most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eLost Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \n\u003ci\u003eVoice of the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eJerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, the short story collection \n\u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e, and also \n\u003ci\u003eThe Great When\u003c\/i\u003e - the first in the five-book Long London series. Alan Moore was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496110948630,"sku":"9781635578881","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781635578881.jpg?v=1783053354","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/i-hear-a-new-world-long-london-2","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}