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Throw in a precarious plumbing situation, gambling debts, an entirely new way of swearing, and a certain detective inspector with what could be kindly referred to as ‘a lot of baggage’ and it all adds up to another hectic week in the life of the newspaper committed to reporting the truth that nobody else will touch. Opposed to the Commonwealth are the Keepers, fanatics who will stop at nothing to ensure the destruction of old technology, which they claim was responsible for the apocalypse. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok. The Stranger Times is a newspaper based in Manchester dedicated to reporting the weird and wonderful from around the world.

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Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill.This is McDonnell’s tenth, although the previous nine appeared under his full name Caimh; the switch to initials signals a switch of genre, from noir-inflected crime romps to supernatural comedy. Somebody needs to sort this out fast before all Hell really breaks loose - step forward the staff of The Stranger Times. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they’d previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Hessa, a priestess of the goddess of war, has the ability to turn her enemies’ bones to dust with a single scream. Vincent Banecroft, The Stranger Times’ irascible editor, never has believed his wife died for a minute, despite emphatic evidence to the contrary.

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Now, against all odds, it would seem that he might actually get proved right, however what lengths is he going to go in an effort to rescue her? well, that job is a revolving door – and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who’s got problems of her own.This is the funniest book that some readers have gone cover to cover with in such a long time, with an eccentric cast of characters. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered, and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits.

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Enjoyable and entertaining throughout, this is a book that will demand consumption in the fewest possible sittings.Set against a backdrop of nations at war, Hessa’s labyrinthine quest of redemption and self-discovery pitches her against not only blood-thirsty soldiers sacking her homeland, but a pantheon of vengeful gods and demons. Watts releases it to the waiting world, and Cline charts the implications in a virtual picaresque that overstays its welcome by a hundred pages.