Neverwhere a process book by Audrey Benedictus

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1 a process book by Audrey Benedictus

2 About Synopsis Richard Mayhew is a ordinary man who finds his world turned upside-down when he stops to help an injured young girl, the Lady Door. Suddenly finding that his interaction with her has erased him from his plane of existence and plunged him into an odd world beneath the London that he knows, Richard has no choice but to join her on her quest to find out who murdered her family, in hopes of finding his way back to life as he knows it. About the Author Neil Gaiman is an accomplished British writer who is responsible for many notable fantasy and science-fiction works, such as his novels American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, Good Omens, and Sandman, with television credits in Doctor Who and Robert Zemeckis Beowulf. Praise for For those who have not read, the new edition is the one to read... readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along. - Huffington Post For those who have never been to, it s time to go. For those who may have traveled once before, this new edition is calling out to you. There is more to see, hear and learn. - Suspense Magazine Title: Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: BBC Books Published: 1996 ISBN:

3 About Final Frontier Baskerville Old Face Mongolian Baiti Heimdal Long Shot dangerous mystifying intriguing Kevlar Underwear Medusa Gothic Black Chancery Northwood High K 22 Monastic Medusa Gothic Baskerville Old Face I m choosing this font for the title because it feel very old-fashioned and dark and goes with the theme of the book. I m chose this one for similar reasons as Medusa Gothic, but I was to use a less stylized text for things such as the author.

4 The Original Cover I feel that while the colors do communicate and air of both fancy as well as mysterious and dingy, nothing else about it tells me anything else about the book. In fact, it doesn t even have a book synopsis on the back, so when I first read this book I was going off of my love of Neil Gaiman s other work and hoping for the best (and best it was). This cover only shows me that the book is set in London, but does not tell me anything about the genre or the characters. I m also confused by why the graphic at the top of the cover is there in the first place, or why the author s name is so large. I think that this would have worked better if perhaps more room was given to Big Ben and the plain misty background, which could allow for more focus on the title text. I also think that making Gaiman s name in all-caps while is not is a very odd choice. I also have never been a big fan of praise-quotes on a book, because none of those individuals opinions about the book really matter to me. I m going to read it with or without a raving review, and more often than not I find that books with good reviews are not very good. So to place one on the cover seems unnecessary and takes up space that can be used to further enrich the cover.

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8 Richard Mayhew is an ordinary man who finds his world turned upside-down when he stops to help an injured young girl, the Lady Door. Suddenly finding that his interaction with her has erased him from his plane of existence and plunged him into an odd world beneath the London that he knows, Richard has no choice but to join her on her quest to find out who murdered her family, in hopes of finding his way back to life as he knows it. Richard wrote a diary entry in his head... Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a life that made Neil Gaiman is an accomplished British writer who is responsible for many notable fantasy and sciencefiction works, such as his novels American Gods, Coraline, Praise for For those who have not read, the new edition is the one to read... readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along. - Huffington Post For those who have never been to, it s time to go. For those who may have traveled once before, this new edition is calling out to you. There is more to see, hear and learn. - Suspense Magazine neverwhere neverwhere sense. (Well, as much as any life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I ve got no fiancée, no home, no job, and I m walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruitfly. Stardust, Good Omens, and Sandman, with television credits in Doctor Who and Robert Zemeckis Beowulf. Gaiman by Neil Gaiman

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