This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell

This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnellVampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok.

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Not that she or her friends are up to speed with the goings-on of the resistance

I have been witness to this decline

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Probably the first book about Prehistoric Times to feature roller skates and doughnuts

'Extremely funny

'The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for

this lyrical picture book connects the love that nurtures plants with the love that nurtures our relationships

but for years they had called him Panenka

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devastation and loss

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