Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience

Susanna Clarke, Sunday Times bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

A riotous tour of occult London . . . a sustained feat of bravura brilliance. Bring on the next instalment.

Guardian

Think Terry Pratchett writing one of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London novels – but still unmistakeably Alan. This has 'massive hit' written all over it

John Higgs

It's a romp, and it's full of loving attention to the past . . . Freed from the tyranny of the speech bubble, you sense Moore is really, really having fun.

Sunday Times

'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying: and that's just the first page. Now read on

Iain Sinclair

Wonderfully immersive . . . a heady tumble of language, full of allusions and ripe adjectives

Financial Times