this link takes you to a FREE download of the book Neverwhere. It is a pdf file that gives you 30days to read it for FREE before it self-destructs (with no damage to surrounding files).

Ace, thanks Thumbwitch.

Thanks thumbwitch. I've just downloaded, but I have a horrible feeling I've read this already. Guess I'll soon find out

I've got stardust by my bed waiting to be read too. Mmm....can't wait!

I have read it and now I'm jealous for all the people about to read it for the first time. It wasn't my fave Gaiman book, but it was very enjoyable none the less. Enjoy!

ooh thank you so much thumbwitch .

I've read it and liked it a lot - but thank you anyway!

This was a tv series years ago.

Neverwhere was never watched apparently...but I did. Thanks for the link.

Bum, it's one of the two I've already read.
Can recommend though

One of my favourite books. I have two copies already, and the DVD box set of the series.

Yes I am a fan .

And hugely jealous of everyone who has yet to read anything of his for the first time

I bought Neverwhere the other day (obviously far too late for the free download) and loved it. I have a real interest in London's history anyway and the way he interwove that with the unknown London beneath was brilliant. Strangely enough I probably have about a dozen non fiction books entirely about "underground" London and several more about "hidden" London so this really sruck a chord. And I'm a sucker for grown up fairy tales so all in all was very pleased to have found this - even so belatedly.

It prompted me to buy 3 more of his ..... have just started Stardust. As someone who practically lives in bookshops I can't believe I'd never heard of him before nor found his stuff while I was browsing.

Ooh, I've already read it but thanks. I do love it, the boo and the tv series.

My all time favourite Neil Gaiman is American Gods though, fantastic stuff.

I read this recently. Very clever Sat on the underground last week looking at the map and smiling to myself.

"Neverwhere was never watched apparently...but I did"

I went to the launch for Coraline when I was a student. Gaiman told a story that he'd got invited to the set of neverwhere, and saw the hideous Beast of London. The conversation went a bit like this:

Crew: "That's the Beast of London."
NG: "It's a cow. Isn't it supposed to look scary?"
Crew: "Well, we did have a harness and mask thing we were supposed to put on it"
NG: "Why didn't you?"
Crew "Well, the handler had gone off somewhere and no-one else fancied trying to put that thing on the cow, so we just shot it without."

He also made reference to a "Doctor Who" budget. Old Dr who obviously... this was about 1999.

<Sits back and admires complete collection of Sandman in trade paperback form~>

oh - don't mention complete collections of sandman! i had borrowed the complete collection (all 10 of em) from a friend and somehow, when we moved house, i no longer had them. i have a sneaking suspicion that some lucky charity shop benefitted from my moving-confusion. had to buy the whole lot for him again. sniff.

Has anyone read the graveyard book. Read it last weekend and really enjoyed it. Not as good as Coraline though. The Sandman series is definately a favourite, got Death tattoed on my arm with her umbrella =)

On the subject of The Graveyard Book, have just discovered this site which has a video tour of the author reading it. I thought you people might like it .

Are the rest of Neil Gaiman's books like Stardust?

I love the TV series. I only just read the book, it was brilliant too.

Not the adult fiction section, but DDs LOVE The Wolves in the Walls. Waiting for the stage version to roll round our direction again.

I've not read it for a while but thought Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett was a great book - laugh out loud in places.

Sandman is good, but his other comics are also worth a read.

Mirrormask is a bit odd, though.