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Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

by Neil Gaiman

A second London beneath the familiar one

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    Selected for NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

    Selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time.

  • Author recognition

    #1 New York Times bestselling author

    Identified as a #1 New York Times bestselling author.

  • Critical praise

    Praised by the San Diego Union-Tribune

    Quoted praise describes the story as “a fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

A second London beneath the familiar one

Richard Mayhew’s ordinary life is disrupted by a chance act of kindness, drawing him into a hidden London inhabited by people who have slipped beyond the city’s usual boundaries. The novel uses this shadow city as the setting for a fantasy of survival and the possibility of returning home. This edition presents Gaiman’s preferred text and also includes the short tale “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.”

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in contemporary fantasy set within a reimagined city.
  • For readers who enjoy stories about hidden worlds and journeys prompted by an unexpected act of kindness.
  • For those seeking an edition that includes both the preferred text and an additional Neverwhere tale.

Themes

Hidden worldsUrban fantasyKindnessSurvivalBelonging and return

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Book overview

National Bestseller

Selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"--and including his new Neverwhere tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

"A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune), Neil Gaiman's first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy, and a perennial favorite of readers everywhere.

"Delightful ... inventively horrific."

--USA Today

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