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Imprint: Bantam Press
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Published: 14/01/2021
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ISBN: 9781787633353
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 242mm x 38mm x 162mm
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Weight: 663g
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RRP: £14.99
'Wonderfully dark, extremely funny' proclaimed ADAM KAY, author of the No.1 bestselling This is Going to Hurt
'A filmic romp with great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise' said the GUARDIAN
JASON MANFORD thinks it's 'Hilarious. You'll never look at Manchester the same way again.'
And THE TIMES called it 'ripping entertainment from start to finish.'
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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Imprint: Bantam Press
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Published: 14/01/2021
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ISBN: 9781787633353
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Length: 432 Pages
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Dimensions: 242mm x 38mm x 162mm
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Weight: 663g
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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A filmic romp with great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise.
Eric Brown, GUARDIAN
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I tore through The Stranger Times. Like an entertaining collision between the worlds of Mick Herron and Charlie Stross, it's a novel that proves ancient eldritch horror is no match for old-school journalism.
CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE, bestselling author of Fallen Angel
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There are weird happenings in Manchester; good job the drunk and dysfunctional journalists of The Stranger Times, a newspaper dedicated to paranormal and the unexplained, are on hand . . . terrific, easygoing fun.
Robert Millen, THE TIMES
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A cracker . . . brace yourself for murder, monsters, mesmerism - and merriment. Wonderfully wacky.
SAGA
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Darkly witty.
i-NEWSPAPER
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Darkly comedic . . . alternating between sinister and silly, McDonnell's writing is intelligently witty.
THE HERALD
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Wonderfully dark, extremely funny, and evocative of Terry Pratchett - which I think is the highest compliment I can give.
ADAM KAY, No.1 bestselling author of This Is Going to Hurt
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Hilarious. You'll never look at Manchester the same way again.
JASON MANFORD
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McDonnell packs jokes into every layer of his writing - narration, description, dialogue - and they always propel, rather than hold up, the business of storytelling, which is the real test of a comic author. He's also got an enjoyable sense of the macabre; these dark forces are not messing around . . . The Stranger Times is ripping entertainment from start to finish.
THE TIMES
