The Unwritten (Vol. 1) : Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity [Paperback]

'packed with recherche trivia and literary psychogeography....fans of Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll will be right at home here: if the rest of the series lives up to this cliffhanging first volume it will be very good indeed' --The Telegraph

'just as truth and fiction, fascinatingly collide with intriguing postmodern results...Mike Carey climaxes his first page-turning volume with a discursive chapter on an imagined political conspiracy surrounding Rudyard Kipling' --The Metro

"A wish-I'd-thought-of-it premise, beautifully executed. Highly recommended for anyone who thinks that fantasy can do more than just help you escape the real world" --Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, TV's LOST)

Tom Taylor s life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modelled the fictional epic so closely on Tom s real life that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity.When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that s secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now, to protect his life and discover the truth behind his origins, Tom will travel the world, to all the places in world history where fictions have shaped reality.

Mike Carey is the writer of Elektra, Fantastic Four, Inferno, My Faith in Frankie and the smash-hit Lucifer. He is currently writing X-Men and Wetworks. Peter Gross has contributed artwork to The Sandman, The Books of Magic: Summonings, and The Books of Magic: Reckonings.