The Clockwork Leviathan

<b>A young woman in South London is dragged across the multiverse in this whirlwind neo-Dickensian fantasy adventure packed with steampunk beetles, eldritch capitalist monsters and occult Soviet cosmonauts, from the bestselling author of <i>The Lighthouse at the End of the World </i><br> <br>Perfect for fans of Alan Moore and V. E. Schwab.</b><br><br>Cecile McLellen's life is a drag. Her shelf-stacking job is drudgery, her boyfriend an idiot and her lucky brother is off god-knows-where.<br><br>So it’s a pleasant surprise when, one night, she discovers a blue-glowing intruder named Nonesuch in the act of stealing a seaside souvenir, who promptly whisks Cecile off to Greater London, a parallel version of Cecile’s own city.<br><br>But Cecile has no time to marvel at her new reality – Greater London is in the middle of a civil war between the East India Company and the City, and her brother is caught up in the middle of it. Worse than that, a bigger threat is looming on the horizon, the cosmic entity Leviathan who wields a terrifying and impossible army.<br><br>Along with the seemingly ageless escapist Marya Petrovna, a talking VW Beetle and the grumpy daughter of a god-emperor, Cecile must face occult Soviet cosmonauts, memetic armies and perhaps worst of all, capitalism; otherwise everyone, everywhere is doomed.<br><br>At least it’s not another shift in the supermarket, right?<br><br>Return to the visionary Cities of the Drift in this standalone fantasy adventure, and prepare to immerse yourself, once more, in a multiverse of Londons.