Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s fantasy novel The Book of Elsewhere is just as gory as you’d expect

More than three decades since Keanu Reeves became a household name for his goofy turn as a time-travelling high school student in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Canadian actor has notched up a surprising list of accomplishments. Not only is he a bankable action star, but Reeves is also a film director, musician, comic book author, philanthropist, the inspiration for one of the Internet’s favourite memes, and a theatre actor set to make his Broadway debut in a 2025 production of Waiting for Godot. He can now add novelist to the list, having recently teamed up with speculative fiction…