{"product_id":"book-hck4","title":"The Stranger Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrought to you by Penguin. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTOP PRESS! \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times w\u003c\/i\u003eins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e is on hand to report them . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen tragedy strikes in her first week on the job \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© C. K. McDonnell 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369869517104,"sku":"BDhck4","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/383127-hck4-Square.jpg?v=1734637631","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hck4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}