From the unparalleled imagination of international bestseller Alan Moore, author of From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, which take us to the fantastical underside of reality.
Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.
'Illuminations is a wonderful collection, brilliant and often
moving. A few are stories I've loved for years (in one case, for
decades), some were new to me, often managing to be both
mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban
reality, written in language that coruscates, concatenates and
glitters. But the short stories in this book also turn out to be a
sort of camouflage, or a frame, for 'What We Can Know About
Thunderman,' a short novel that's a scabrous, monstrous, often
hilarious, unmasking and reinvention of the people who made the
comics, and the lives destroyed by the four colour funnies. It's
Alan Moore's Guernica, a time-hopping ontological Imaginary Story
that refuses to leave your head after you've read it'
*Neil Gaiman*
One of the great fiction minds of his generation
*Rolling Stone*
The king of comics
*Guardian*
Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the
temporal neverending
*Financial Times*
His bighearted passion for his people ... and the whole monstrous
endeavour of the human condition is infectious. I’m not sure
there’s a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore
*Entertainment Weekly*
One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... Moore’s
influence can be felt everywhere—in our literature, on our screens,
in our politics
*Guardians*
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