Neverwhere

National Bestseller and selected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time, this ultimate edition features the author’s “preferred text” along with the special tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Published in 1997, this novel marked the debut of a major talent in urban fantasy. Over the years, various versions emerged in the U.S. and U.K., but this edition reconciles those works and reinstates scenes cut from the original. The story follows Richard Mayhew, a kind-hearted London businessman whose life changes dramatically when he helps a bleeding girl. This act of kindness thrusts him into Neverwhere, a hidden London filled with shadows, monsters, and angels, existing in a subterranean labyrinth. Here, he encounters Door, the girl he aided, who is a powerful noblewoman on a mission to avenge her family’s murder and save her kingdom from destruction. To return to his former life, Richard must join Door on her perilous quest, risking everything in the process. The author, a #1 New York Times bestselling writer of over twenty books, has received numerous literary accolades and currently resides in America, originally hailing from England.