Illuminations - Limited Edition'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving Both mind expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN 'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONE In his first ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never before published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern

Britain and the Roman Empire had been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors

and it isn't

land and loss

Sansom's stories take us on a multitude of familiar journeys made new: the nativity play

honesty and deception

The Regent orders Athelstan to find out who committed such a heinous act

they might not just save the unit but also prevent the entire city from descending into chaos

and unmask his enemies

And what indissoluble thread binds them together

this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors

Arriving by ship are the young angel Dill

in this beautiful