A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.

A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.

Everyday Lou Suffern battled with the clock. He always had two places to be at the same time. He always had two things to do at once. When asleep he dreamed. In between dreams, he ran through the events of the day while making plans for the next. When at home with his wife and family, his mind was always someplace else. On his way into work one early winter morning, Lou meets Gabe, a homeless man sitting outside the office building. Intrigued by him...

Over the course of a single night in 2052, a homeless man named Cuthbert Handley sets out on an astonishing quest: to release the animals of the London Zoo. When he was a young boy, Cuthbert’s grandmother had told him he inherited a magical ability to communicate with the animal world — a gift she called the Wonderments. Ever since his older brother’s death in childhood, Cuthbert has heard voices. These maddening whispers must be the Wonderments,...

The protagonist of the novel, known only as The Kid, finds himself in a strange state of limbo after being released from prison where he was serving time for a liaison with an underaged girl. Now on probation and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of any place where children could gather, he joins a makeshift encampment made up mostly of other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an...