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From Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Boys from Brazil to Captain America, the Nazi’s obsession with the supernatural and occult is legendary. The British response to it is, however, less known. Section W is a series inspired by some of the more obscure aspects of War Office activity. June 1940. As Hitler prepares to invade Britain, a secret office hidden away in Whitehall is catapulted into a frenzy of activity and expansion. Knowing Hitler’s commitment and belief in the occult, Section W is set up to exploit this ‘weakness’ in the enemy’s chain of command. New recruit Daphne Lawrence, an Essex-born, sparky twenty-two-year-old assistant to The Grand Mystique, aka Jonty Trevelyan, finds herself called upon to manipulate the Germans with magical trickery as she is propelled into a series of counter espionage missions.

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Praise for Syd Moore: ‘Spooky and sassy.’ Sunday Times Crime Club ‘Confident, down-to-earth Essex girl Rosie is an appealing character, and there is plenty of spooky fun in this spirited genre mashup.’ Guardian 'The rarest of things: a book which sets out unashamedly to entertain, and does so with wit, style and erudition.' Sarah Perry  'Gripping, strange, unusual. Beautiful writing and a brilliant heroine. I loved it.' Sophia Bennett 

Praise for Syd Moore: ‘Spooky and sassy.’ Sunday Times Crime Club ‘Confident, down-to-earth Essex girl Rosie is an appealing character, and there is plenty of spooky fun in this spirited genre mashup.’ Guardian 'The rarest of things: a book which sets out unashamedly to entertain, and does so with wit, style and erudition.' Sarah Perry

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Syd Moore is best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries (Strange Magic, Strange Sight, Strange Fascination and Strange Tombs). The series was shortlisted for the Good Reader Holmes and Watson Award in 2018. She was shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2019 and 2020. Her debut screenplay, Witch West, which she developed from an original idea, has been optioned by Hidden Door Productions and will go into production in 2021. Syd founded the Essex Girls' Liberation Front and successfully got the term ‘Essex girl’ removed from the Oxford dictionary in 2020. Syd is also the author of The Drowning Pool and Witch Hunt. She lives in Essex.

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