{"product_id":"ring-the-bells-5-stranger-times","title":"Ring the Bells","description":"\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\u003e TOM HOLT, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Door\u003c\/i\u003e and \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\u003e For 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\u003e As 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\u003e Featuring 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\u003e is the fifth book in the award-winning, critically acclaimed and laugh-out-loud funny \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger Times\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 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\u003e Of 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\u003e is perhaps the best since the original.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSTARBURST\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Ring the Bells #5 Stranger Times","offer_id":46492636512453,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-80499-337-8.jpg?v=1783210138","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ring-the-bells-5-stranger-times","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}