Neverwhere
#6475 of 8,085 books · #1349 in Fantasy
Shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (1998).
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels. He must survive if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780062476371
- Genre
- Topics
- Hidden worldsHeroism and self-discoveryUrban fantasy adventure
Awards
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult LiteratureShortlisted(1998)
Other awarded books from Neil Gaiman
- American Gods (2011)4 wins · 39 score
- The Graveyard Book (2008)2 wins · 20 score
- Anansi Boys (2006)3 wins · 15 score
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)1 win · 15 score
- Stardust (2007)1 win · 7 score
- Coraline (2012)1 win · 5 score
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