STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!
'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.' The Chronicles of St Mary's series author JODI TAYLOR declared
'I loved this . . . great premise - great story - great characters . . . hugely enjoyable.' 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. Readers love The Stranger Times: ***** 'A delight from start to finish -
laugh out loud funny yet with plenty of thrills.' ***** 'Full of wit and humour and knows how
to keep the reader hooked.' ***** 'You'll soon fall in love . . . fans of Pratchett Gaiman
Aaronovich will be blown away.' The Stranger Times and This Charming Man shortlisted for a
'Dead Good Reader Award' - the 'The New Kid on the Block Award for Best New Series'!
