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Paul Magrs


UK flag (b.1969)

Paul Magrs was born in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear in 1969. He was educated in Newton Aycliffe at Woodham Burn Infants and Junior Schools, then Woodham Comprehensive, in Newton Aycliffe, before attending Lancaster University. 'Strange Boy' is his twelfth published book, although it's the first time he's written for a younger audience. He's always wanted to write the kinds of book he could never find when he was a teenager. Nowadays he is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Phoenix Court
   1. Marked for Life (1995)
   2. Does It Show? (1996)
   3. Could It Be Magic? (1998)
   4. Fancy Man (2018)
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Brenda and Effie Mysteries
   1. Never the Bride (2006)
   2. Something Borrowed (2007)
   3. Conjugal Rites (2008)
   4. Hell's Belles (2009)
   5. The Bride That Time Forgot (2010)
   6. Brenda and Effie Forever! (2012)
   A Treasury of Brenda and Effie (2017)
   7. Fellowship of Ink (2017)
   8. A Game of Crones (2020)
   Beyond the Veil (2023)
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Lora Trilogy
   1. Lost on Mars (2015)
   2. The Martian Girl (2016)
   3. The Heart of Mars (2018)
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Novels
   Modern Love (2000)
   All the Rage (2001)
   Strange Boy (2002)
   Hands Up! (2003)
   Aisles (2003)
   To the Devil - a Diva! (2004)
   Exchange (2006)
   Twin Freaks (2007)
   The Diary of a Dr Who Addict (2010)
   666 Charing Cross Road (2011)
   The Ninnies (2012)
   The Story of Fester Cat (2014)
   Mrs Danby and Company (2015)
   Hunky Dory (2020)
   The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy (2021)
   The Tale of Toxic Positivity (2022) (with Beatrix Pottymouth)
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Collections
   Playing Out (1997)
   Bound (2004) (with others)
   Twelve Stories (2009)
   Zenith Lives! (2012) (with others)
   Just Another Winter's Tale (2017) (with others)
   A Few More Winter Tales (2018) (with others)
   Christmassy Tales (2020)
   Silver Jubilee (2020)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Stardust and Snow (2019)
   Mooncalf (2020)
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Anthologies edited
   Menswear: Fables Anthology for 2022 (2022) (with Rylan John Cavell, Jeremy Hoad and David Adams Richards)
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Paul Magrs recommends
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Black Dog (2014)
(Black Dog, book 1)
Rachel Neumeier
"Neumeier's writing is beautiful."
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The Leaping (2010)
Tom Fletcher
"A book that's stiff with foreboding and dread right from the start. . . . It's a literary, literate horror novel--and has a mordant, knowing, blackly ironic style to it. But it's relentless, too, in its avowed intention of scaring the life out of its readers, with everything it can throw at us."

Anthologies containing stories by Paul Magrs
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Criminal Pursuits (2021)
Fourteen powerful tales of crime, murder, revenge and love
edited by
Samantha Lee Howe
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Wilde Stories 2016 (2016)
The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction
(Wilde Stories)
edited by
Steve Berman
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Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2013)
Brand new tales of the Great Detective
edited by
George Mann

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