{"product_id":"ring-the-bells","title":"Ring the Bells","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTOM HOLT, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Portable Door\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Eight Reindeers of Christmas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIt is beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stranger Times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRing the Bells\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the fifth book in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and laugh-out-loud funny \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reviewers loved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRelight My Fire:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McDonnell's world is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etransgressively hilarious, grimly banal and beguilingly warm.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf course there's a story that the intrepid journalists of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e have to tease out: grave-robbing, cryogenics, a very angry witch, and a washed-up indie legend looking for a lost album, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe real joy lies in the pitfalls and pratfalls of getting there\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn absolute riot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of a read.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAILY EXPRESS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Laugh-out-loud funny and full of colourful characters.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAILY MIRROR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It’s no secret that here at SciFi Towers we’re massive fans of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eStranger Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series by C. K. McDonnell.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSciFiNOW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe dry and embedded humour of this book, it's the stuff of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . . the whole thing is great fun.' 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