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Paul Magrs

    November 12, 1968
    The Creative Writing Coursebook
    A Game of Crones
    Radical Attention
    Brenda and Effie Forever!
    The Novel Inside You
    Something Borrowed
    • 2024

      Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi show in the world, and a flagship BBC property. First appearing on air in 1963, it follows the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord who travels through time and space, fighting alien monsters and saving the universe.

      Doctor Who: In Wonderland
    • 2023

      This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapshots in words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life. Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time which tells us about how Bell got here. Not the whole story, but her story.

      Hymnal
    • 2023

      A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).

      Puss in Books
    • 2023

      It was a kind of portal - a portal into the myths of the ancient world . . . Everyone knows the Doctor loves museums (it's his way of keeping score). But when Jo Grant and the Doctor visit the British Museum in London, they might have got more than they bargained for. A mysterious object is revealed, which grants those who touch it strange visions of Greek Myths. Gods, warriors and monsters are contained within this device, which its discover calls the mythoscope. But there is something sinister at play. A powerful influence seems to be controlling the mythoscope . . . mastering it. Jo and the Doctor must enter the mythoscope to face an old and terrible enemy - bargaining with Zeus, battling dragons and journeying into the underworld. As dangers beset them on all sides, only an object of wondrous power can save them from total destruction . . .

      Doctor Who: Josephine and the Argonauts
    • 2022

      For the Doctor, this was his first visit to the prince of thieves. For Robin, it's been a long time coming . . .Robin Hood is disenchanted. Maid Marion has left, the Merry Men have settled down, and the legend of the Doctor has retreated deep into the shadows of Sherwood Forest.But the Doctor is back! (Although this is his first visit - time travel does strange things to a story.) The poor are fed, and the gang are together again.That is until a desperate King John calls on the deadliest alien force at the nobilities' the mysterious, shape-shifting Mother Maudlin .As dark magic is spun, heroes are captured, and the Doctor must find a way to save the Kingdom.It's time for the return of the Lionheart . . .

      Doctor Who: The Return of Robin Hood
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Radical Attention

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      4.3(220)Add rating

      An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction. Attention pays. In today's online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers have turned what and how focus our attention into the world's fastest growing industry. In exchange for our attention, information and entertainment is ever at our fingertips. But at what cost? In this essay, at once personal and polemical, meditative and militant, Julia Bell asks what has been lost in this trade off. How can we reclaim our attention? In a world of infinite distraction, how can attention become radical?

      Radical Attention
    • 2020

      Conjugal Rites

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Trouble has a way of finding Brenda and Effie. Whether it's long-held secrets coming out on the local radio phone-in, or ancient superheroes meeting a grisly end at the Christmas Hotel, there's always some new devilment to deal with. And then - to make matters worse - here comes Frank! Brenda's first and most notorious gentleman friend...

      Conjugal Rites
    • 2020

      A Game of Crones

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      In this new volume of adventures for Brenda and Effie we do battle with vampires and mummies and haunted cats! We uncover the mystery of both Elephant Men and meet Tolstoy the Long-Eared Bat out of Hell! Brenda also gets to go back to her roots with Baron Frankenstein, and we even share an investigation at the Christmas Hotel with the famous Sherlock Holmes. Whitby has never felt so hectic, and everyone here is very glad to welcome you back..!

      A Game of Crones
    • 2020

      Brenda and Effie Forever!

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Brenda and Effie have made a brief escape from Whitby and are whooping it up on the continent. A brief encounter with a Parisian Phantom and his hunchbacked boyfriend sends the pair hurrying back to the North Yorkshire coast, where they have a whole new set of menaces to contend with. Here come the ineffable forces of darkness! Vengeful vampires! The long-dead Bronte sisters! And... a Panda!

      Brenda and Effie Forever!