Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream
of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black
velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than
he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him
out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily
familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called
Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a
labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining... And Richard, who only
wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets
of his native city. Includes extra material exclusive to this Headline Review
edition.