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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''<!-- Remove --> {{newreview|author=Paul Tremblay|title=A Head full of Ghosts |rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=I don't normally go in for horror stories, mainly because I usually can't take them seriously enough to suspend disbelief. But ''A Head full of Ghosts'' appealed to me, somehow - perhaps I was just curious to read the novel that ''scared the living hell out of'' Stephen King. Or maybe I was interested to see how Paul Tremblay dealt with the schizophrenic behaviour of his teenage protagonist. And I was certainly intrigued by the highly original storyline described in the blurb: when Marjorie, a teenage girl, starts behaving erratically, her family can't cope and call in the local priest and, ultimately, a TV crew who start to film a reality show about exorcisms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653679</amazonuk>}}
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|summary=Considering how bizarre the stories in juvenile literature can sometimes be, it's weird to think that occasionally it's the actual source material that inspired it that is even more unusual. Whoever would really credit writing a book where footballing underdogs, and firm favourites to be relegated, defied odds of 5000 to 1 to win the Premiership? But that's what happened in the 2015/16 season, in a certain town in the East Midlands of England. Despite every worry directed their way, they sustained their fine form long enough to win the league, in a run that some people soon realised had started when said city had had another momentous event, namely holding the proper burial accorded a lost King of England. Like I say, completely unusual and unexpected events – surely too odd to be turned into fiction?
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