{"product_id":"when-it-s-ready-to-cook-by-cliff-mcnish","title":"When It’s Ready to Cook by Cliff McNish","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"_Hlk219623109\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlex only wanted a ride to London. Instead, he’s about to witness a birth no human being was ever meant to see.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlex is soaked, strung out, and stranded beside the M1 in the pouring rain when a stranger finally offers him a ride to London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNick is huge, ugly, covered in occult tattoos, and driving far too fast. But Alex has accepted lifts from worse. Probably.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThen Nick announces that his wife is about to give birth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWhat begins as an unwanted detour becomes something far more disturbing when Alex is dragged into a filthy flat where a terrified young woman is waiting. She needs help. Nick insists Alex is exactly the man for the job. And the more Alex learns about the couple, the pregnancy, and the grotesque little nativity taking shape around them, the less any of it makes sense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eExcept one thing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWhatever is coming, it isn’t human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTrapped between a woman desperate to survive, a father with monstrous ambitions, and a birth that should never have been possible, Alex is forced into a role he never asked for—and toward a choice that may demand more courage than he has left.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFrom Cliff McNish, \u003ci\u003eWhen It’s Ready to Cook\u003c\/i\u003e is a vicious, darkly funny descent into brutal body horror, religious terror, and one truly unholy family occasion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Hare Press","offers":[{"title":"Digital","offer_id":50845461643403,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50845461676171,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/4062\/9131\/files\/WhenIt_sReadytoCookbyCliffMcNish.jpg?v=1792801390","url":"https:\/\/blackharepress.com\/products\/when-it-s-ready-to-cook-by-cliff-mcnish","provider":"Black Hare Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}