Bestselling author Joanne Harris, known for 1999 novel Chocolat, artfully juxtaposes the everyday mundane with the downright remarkable in her latest spellbinding treat The Moonlight Market, a novel that has been hailed as Neverwhere meets Stardust.

Tom Argent, a reserved and independent young man, finds solace in the photographing of his city with a trusty camera, until his developed images reveal inexplicable details. Soon, Tom’s eyes are opened to the most bewitching of realms, unseen by the common folk, where moths and butterflies are deceptive creatures, at war.

But with war, there is often love, and Tom is full to the brim with it, captivated by the wanton behaviours of the inconceivably beautiful Vanessa as she further lures him into the mystically charged depths of London’s King’s Cross.

Though the book is relatively short in length, Harris’ fairytale-esque chapters of lost princes, winged kings and mournful queens, spliced alongside the present-day, perilous wanderings of our newly lovesick protagonist, make for quite the epic adventure. The romantic language and poetic descriptions bring a luminescence to the page, in a style Harris has certainly mastered in her years of writing stories of a fantastical nature – and The Moonlight Market is just proof that her work only gets better.