▸ RELEASED 11 OCTOBER 464 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook
▸ Author Alan Moore
▸ Publisher Bloomsbury
It’s probably not wildly unfair to describe Alan Moore’s literary output to date as “intimidating”. His first book Voice Of The Fire explored the lives of numerous characters in the author’s beloved hometown Northampton over the course of some 6,000 years. 2016’s Jerusalem, meanwhile, took a decade to write and easily breezed past the million word mark. This collection of eight short stories and a novel offers perhaps a rather more approachable way into his writing.
Opening story “Hypothetical Lizard” is the oldest tale included (indeed, with the exception of this and “Cold Reading” from 2009, most
