# The Whispering Swarm

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-moorcock/the-whispering-swarm

![The Whispering Swarm](https://quivercdn.com/covers/gollancz/michael-moorcock/the-whispering-swarm_978-14-7321-333-3.jpg?v=2026-05-20%2002%3A32%3A05)

- Authors: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-moorcock)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-07-30

## Description

With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth. London has always been a central character in Moorcock's work, from the high-literary fiction of MOTHER LONDON to the roof gardens of Jerry Cornelius. Now return to London just after the war, a city desperately trying to get back on its feet. And one young boy, Michael Moorcock, who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood - a job on Fleet Street, the first stirrings of his interest in writing - and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar, we see a version of Moorcock's life that is simultaneously a biography and a story. Mixing elements of his real life with his adventures in a parallel London peopled with highwaywomen, musketeers and magicians, this is Moorcock at his dazzling, mercurial best.

## Editions

### The Whispering Swarm

- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-333-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-06-09
- Language: en_GB

### The Whispering Swarm

- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7321-334-0
- Published: 2015-07-30
- Language: en_GB