{"product_id":"9780241795071","title":"Small Spaces by Katherine Arden","description":"The spellbindingly creepy middle-grade debut from the bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.    `Terrifying and fun.' - R L Stine, author of Goosebumps After rescuing a book from the river, eleven-year-old Ollie discovers a creepy ghost story about the Smiling Man, a fiendish trickster who can grant any wish - for a price. Luckily, it's just a story . But when Ollie finds the characters' names carved into gravestones on a school trip to a farm, the story begins to feel terrifyingly real. And then the bus breaks down on the way home, under the watchful eyes of the scarecrows. And darkness starts to fall. `Best get moving,' the bus driver warns the schoolchildren. `At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you.' As Ollie and two new friends work to unravel a hundred-year-old mystery and save their classmates from the Smiling Man, they'll need quick thinking and even quicker feet if they're going to survive.    Full of slow-burning tension, gloriously creepy writing and fantastically realised characters, this is horror at its best: a perfect read for fans of R L Stine, Jennifer Killick and Phil Hickes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419543646581,"sku":"9780241795071","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241795071.jpg?v=1764598161","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780241795071","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}