About the Book: Great When :A Long London Novel
A propulsive tour through a fantastical London, where history and myth collide,
murder stalks the streets and the mundane becomes very magical indeed…
The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital is Dennis
Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen-year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One
day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that
simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel.
Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?.
Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical