Started this yesterday and finished it this morning. Connolly the author of The Book of Lost Things has come up with a tale perfect for Halloween.
The Gates of the title are the Gates of Hell which the inhabitants of 666 Crowley Road in the sleepy hamlet of Biddlecombe have inadvertently driven a wedge into. But the event was witnessed by young Samuel Johnson and his faithful dog Boswell out trick or treating three days early. This is a young adult book but would appeal to older readers too. Of course being a little boy no one believes Samuel, not his soon to be divorced Mum, his teacher or his local priest. Samuel teams up with his young friends, the scientists manning the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and a very confused banished demon with a passion for jelly beans and driving fast cars while hiding under a blanket.
This book is laugh out loud funny in parts - the local vicar taking down a very bad tempered (and long dead) Archbishop named Bernard the Bad is priceless. It's Shaun of the Dead meets Harry Potter. Fans of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman or the late Douglas Adams will love this.
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