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At an event on the Southbank promoting his new book, Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman confirmed longstanding rumours that he is returning to the world of Neverwhere for his next volume.

“When Lenny Henry and I came up with the original idea for Neverwhere almost 25 years ago,” Gaiman explained at the end of his talk, “what attracted us was the idea that we could talk about the homeless, talk about the dispossessed, talk about the people who fall through the cracks, and do it in a way that was exciting and fun and interesting and also relevant and might change people’s heads.

“Neverwhere for me was this glorious vehicle where I could talk about huge serious things and have a ridiculous amount of fun on the way. The giant wheel has turned over the last few years and looking around the work I have been doing for UNHCR for refugees, the kind of shape… London is in now, the kind of ways [it] is different to how it was 20 years ago, meant that I decided that it actually was time to do something.

“Now I had things I was angry about. I cared about things I wanted to put in and I’m now a solid three chapters in to a book called The Seven Sisters.”