{"product_id":"9781804993378-ring-the-bells","title":"Ring the Bells","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(The Stranger Times 5)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Fiendishly clever and monstrously funny, C K McDonnell's latest will steal your soul and eat your brain. In the nicest possible way, of course.’ \u003c\/b\u003eTOM HOLT, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Door \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Eight Reindeers of Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is beginning to look a lot like Christmas . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times.\u003c\/i\u003e While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least noteworthy. It quickly emerges that this is no ordinary book-club-triple-murder either, as it features a librarian possessed by a chaotic entity who has broken through from another dimension and is hellbent on vengeance. He’s made a list, but he’s not checking it twice as the whole of humanity is on it. Who would want to summon such a thing? And how is anyone going to be able to send it back?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs if that wasn’t enough to be dealing with, a shocking revelation about a member of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e team’s past brings family together, but not in a way that’s ever going to make it into a Hallmark movie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing demonically possessed Santas, blood-thirsty books and the ghost of a legendary nightclub, it’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas apocalypse .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRing the Bells \u003c\/i\u003eis the fifth book in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and laugh-out-loud funny \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times \u003c\/i\u003eseries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reviewers loved \u003ci\u003eRelight My Fire: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McDonnell's world is \u003cb\u003etransgressively hilarious, grimly banal and beguilingly warm. \u003c\/b\u003eOf course there's a story that the intrepid journalists of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e have to tease out: grave-robbing, cryogenics, a very angry witch, and a washed-up indie legend looking for a lost album, but \u003cb\u003ethe real joy lies in the pitfalls and pratfalls of getting there\u003c\/b\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eAn absolute riot\u003c\/b\u003e of a read.' \u003ci\u003eDAILY EXPRESS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Laugh-out-loud funny and full of colourful characters.' \u003ci\u003eDAILY MIRROR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It’s no secret that here at SciFi Towers we’re massive fans of the \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e series by C. K. McDonnell.' \u003ci\u003eSciFiNOW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved \u003cb\u003ethe dry and embedded humour of this book, it's the stuff of life\u003c\/b\u003e . the whole thing is great fun.' SFCROSWNEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelight My Fire \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps the best since the original.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTARBURST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57078834135414,"sku":"9781804993378","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41373805_68af4c3b-581b-44d5-9f45-2d745bb99cc5.jpg?v=1779340879","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804993378-ring-the-bells","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}