Waterstones Exclusive Video: Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

Adored by booksellers and book-lovers the world over, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell need little introduction. Between them, these venerated gentlemen have accrued a vast array of awards for their elegance and imagination in word and image. Their latest collaboration is an illustrated and transformed version of Gaiman’s Neverwhere.

Here the two men discuss the parallels between a stage performance and an illustrated book; how illustration sets the stage and the mood, while illuminating the text.