It's a new Massive Attack track 'Ritual Spirit', just released this month and featuring Azekel. The music in this story is something we thought PC Grant might be listening to. PC Peter Grant finds himself taking witness statements from ghosts, and has to work out what to do about the fact magical forces keep blowing the sim card on his mobile phone. There is also a very small unit of the Metropolitan Police that keeps an eye on magical transgression. The Goddess of the Thames, for example, is a Nigerian migrant while old Father Thames hails from the Romano-Celt period, a nuggety chap with a flat cap, who left the city during the notorious Big Stink of the mid nineteenth century. These novels show an ancient London, overlaid with a very contemporary cosmopolitan city.

Punch and Judy shows come to life there are jazz vampires born in the Blitz and the theatres and laneways of the city have spectres, demons, and a whole pantheon of gods. They are essentially police procedurals with a twist. He has written five conventional novels so far in his Rivers of London series, along with a series of graphic novels.

Among other things, he was the first to make Daleks levitate in Doctor Who. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.Ben Aaronovitch is a novelist and scriptwriter.

I love being there more than the real London'NICK FROST'As brilliant and funny as ever'THE SUN'Charming, witty, exciting'THE INDEPENDENT'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups'THE TIMESDiscover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. Praise for the Rivers of London novels:'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. Suddenly, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic. After taking a statement from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost, Peter comes to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. My story really begins when I tried to take a witness statement from a man who was already dead. My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitchs books series) Amongst Our Weapons (WIP) General locations Rivers What Abigail did That Summer Monday, Monday False. Book 1 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.

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