The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist by William Peter BlattyFather Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us.' The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in the attic. In the child's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. At first, easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes begin to appear in eleven year old Regan. Medical tests fail to shed any light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body. Father Damien Karras,

Exhilaratingly subversive and funny

It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy

They call in to tell him about overturned sewage trucks and nuisance graffiti artists

from the boats in Galway Bay to traditional music in Doolin

haunted by the spirits of the witches who bestow an extraordinary gift on Immanuelle

All of Sweeney's verve and spiky humour are present in these last poems

he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names

People sprang off the pavement

is perfect to read aloud to very young children

In many countries religious dogma from medieval times still serves to abuse basic human rights such as women's and gay rights

the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and two US-led wars on Iraq

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show