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Bloomsbury presents Illuminations by Alan Moore read by Rory Kinnear Emilia Fox Laura Haddock Nina Sosanya Toby Jones Clarke Peters Mark Meadows Sian Clifford Alan Moore and Matt Reeves

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE

From New York Times bestselling author Alan Mooreone of the most influential writers in the history of comicsa dynamite story collection The New York Times Book Review which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality

In his firstever short story collection which spans forty years of work Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discoverand in some cases even make and unmakethe various uncharted parts of existence

In A Hypothetical Lizard two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications In Not Even Legend a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate In Illuminations a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industrys major players over the last seventyfive years Moore reveals the dark beating heart of the superhero business

From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang Illuminations is exactly thata series of bright startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic