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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Freight Books

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781910449356

RRP: £5.99

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 4, 2015

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The Few

Cathy McSporran

Maggie thinks she is an ordinary teenager. But, when she loses her father in the evacuation of France in the summer of 1940, she discovers within herself a devastating power that could change the future of the war.To defend the country in its hour of need, she must join a special group of wizards tasked with stopping the Gothi, a coven of German teenage necromancers led by the goddess Freya, hell-bent on crushing British resistance.As the Battle of Britain rages, Maggie meets and falls in love with Polish Spitfire pilot Michal. Will she be able to keep Michal safe? Will she, her brother and their friends manage to fight the overwhelming occult forces of the Nazi witches channelling the power of the ancient Aryan goddess Freya?

Reviews of The Few

`Exciting, intense and original' David Belbin, author of Love Lessons, Festival and The Last Virgin; `A ripping WW2 fantasy that combines high-stakes world peril with emotional strength and subtlety. I loved it.' Gillian Philip, author of Bad Faith and the Rebel Angels series

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Cathy McSporran

Cathy McSporran’s fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies such as Mslexia, Chapman, Nerve, Eclogia and From Glasgow to Saturn. She has been shortlisted for the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday prize, and was awarded the Constable Award by the Scottish Association of Writers. She has a PhD from Glasgow University’s School of Creative Writing, and teaches classes in creative writing, poetry and Dante’s Inferno in Glasgow’s Open Studies department. Her debut novel Cold City was published in 2014 to great acclaim.