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2020 | Horror | Humor & Comedy | Science Fiction/Fantasy

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . .

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable.

At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor . . . well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

When tragedy strikes in her first week on the job The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined.

The Stranger Times is the first novel from C.K. McDonnell, the pen name of Caimh McDonnell. It combines his distinctive dark wit with his love of the weird and wonderful to deliver a joyous celebration of how truth really can be stranger than fiction.

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This book was just what I needed - in fact I think it’s what we all need at the moment! It’s hilarious, the laughs come thick and fast, but it’s not a series of puns with no storyline. Far from it. We get to really know these characters: their faults, their goodness and willingness to help one another. Vincent Bancroft, the editor, is a particularly prickly character. He seems to have no redeeming qualities: he’s verbally abusive, a drunk - and he smells. But when the chips are down, he comes up trumps. The reporters Ox and Reggie are long-suffering employees, and travel the length and breadth of the country to get a story; Grace the receptionist (and at times, ring master!) keeps everyone in line; the runaway, Stella, who is working at The Stranger Times instead of serving time for breaking and entering. And then there’s Hannah. It’s her first week on the job, and she’s having to deal with the death of a wannabe reporter - his murder, in fact. And the weird and wonderful is pretty much non-stop!

I really hope that this is the start of a series - I will be listening to The Stranger TImes podcasts, without a doubt!
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this and to Caimh McDonnell for reading along.
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