Paul Magrs

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  • Bibliography:
    61 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1995
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Doctor Who

The Scarlet Empress (Jun-1999)
Sick Building (Sep-2007)

Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • Marked for Life

    Welcome to Phoenix Court It's a weird mix of people round here on this housing scheme, but everyone's reasonably friendly. Everyone's got their secrets, though, and often there's real magic waiting just around the corner. Meet Mark Kelly-a man ta...

  • Does it Show?

    Welcome to Phoenix Court It's a weird mix of Brits round here on this housing scheme, but everyone's reasonably friendly. Everyone's got their secrets, though, and sometimes there's magic waiting just around the corner... Meet: Penny Robinson wh...

  • The Scarlet Empress

    Doctor Who

    Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.

    Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empress...

  • Verdigris

    Iris Wildthyme and her new friend Tom visit the Doctor at home in 1973. While out on a day trip, a single carriage materializes out of nowhere, full of comatose bodies in eighteenth century dress. As they arrange for these people to be taken to the h...

  • Modern Love

    "Modern Love" follows the fortunes of a family through a 25-year period through family secrets, mysterious death, betrayal and brutal murder. Has a child who commits murder inherited evil? Why does someone take the blame for someone else’s actions?...

  • All the Rage

    It’s 1981, and the nation is going Eurovision-crazy. A young band, Things Fall Apart, are British hopefuls with their catchy hit, Let’s Be Famous. Europe is unimpressed. But the band won’t let go of their dream, and they persevere to become one...

  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    In the 1970s, a retired Oxford professor wrote a fantasy opus about a world ruled by super-intelligent dogs with hands. After his mysterious disappearance, his wife published the story, sparking a huge industry of sequels and films. The Doctor knew t...

  • Strange Boy

    As the lurid excesses of the swirling 1970s give way to the neutral pastal shades of the early 1980s, David is ten years old but growing-up fast in a broken home in the north-east of England. Life for him and his brother is a constant whirl of interr...

  • Aisles

    Iris Murdoch pops into an internet chatroom to discuss sex, literature and life-after-death with the impetuous Funkymonkey ... Marion from the delicatessen counter fatally crashes her Fiesta while yelling into her mobile phone ... and the evil Dr Fu ...



  • The Good, the Bat, and the Ugly

    Frank Lurcher and Tolstoy the Long-Eared Bat! Twenty years ago they were the biggest names in ventriloquism, stars of stage and screen. But now, Frank Lurcher's a washed-out, grumpy has-been and his scraggy puppet Tolstoy is stuffed away in the loft....

  • To the Devil

    Karla Sorensen used to be big in horror films. In the 60s and 70s no B-movie cult horror movie was complete without the Queen of the Vampires presiding over it. She was well qualified for it, after all--at the age of ten she sold her soul to the devi...

  • Never the Bride

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  • Twin Freaks

    Sisters Helen and Eunice are special in their own way - Helen's a midget, but can sing like an angel, while Eunice looks like an angel but sings like she's tone deaf. There's no way they're going to get into the singing contest on their own - but tog...

  • Sick Building

    Doctor Who

    Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way.The Tiermanns live in luxury, i...

  • Exchange

    Following the death of his parents, 16-year-old Simon moves into his grandparents' claustrophobic bungalow, which quickly becomes a refuge from his bullying peers. United by their voracious appetite for books, Simon and his grandmother stumble across...

  • Twelve Stories

    This is Paul Magrs' first collection of short stories for twelve years. I've always written them, alongside my novels. These twelve pieces all began with a moment of observation - a face, an overheard exchange of a few words, an interesting dynamic b...

  • To the Devil - a Diva!

    Karla Sorensen used to be big in horror films. No self-respecting, low-budget bloody schlocker shocker was complete without the Queen of Vampires. She was well-qualified; after all, at the age of ten, she sold her soul to the devil. Now, although ...

  • Wildthyme Beyond!

    In this volume: Iris and her various friends are stranded on the perplexing and magical world of Hyspero. Ruled over by the all-knowing and all-powerful Scarlet Empress, this is a place where seemingly anything can happen. As Iris and her faithful co...

  • The Ninnies

    Mum wouldn't believe me when I told her Dad had been taken away by the Ninnies. She thought he'd left us of his own accord. She thought he'd taken his bucket, ladder and chamois leather on his window round that Monday and simply never ca...



  • From Wildthyme with Love

    It's the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who this November (as well as Iris's 15th anniversary since her first appearance in print, in a Doctor Who novel!) Each post card is a very silly parody of a different Doctor Who story - adding up to 50 in all. It'...

  • Aladdin Time

    Trapped underground, the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey encounter a small boy who claims to be Aladdin, in search of a fabled lamp. He joins them on their own quest, to find a power source in this weird domain and switch it off. Many obstacles lie in their ...

  • The Broken Crown

    The year is 1861, and the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey find themselves in the right place at the wrong time. At the rectory they encounter the ill-tempered Reverend Dobbs and his young ward Andrew, whose paper faces hide whatever horrors lie beneath. Tuto...

  • Demon Quest

    The Doctor's return to Nest Cottage lands him in trouble when a key component from the TARDIS disappears. Mrs. Wibbsey is unwittingly responsible, having exchanged it for a bag containing four curious objects. It seems that each one is a clue, and th...

  • The Demon of Paris

    Someone has painted the Doctor's likeness into a famous poster by Toulouse-Lautrec, leading Mrs. Wibbsey and him to Paris in the 1890s. There the streets are thronged with artists and their muses ladies of the night, such as the young girl La Charlot...

  • The Hexford Invasion

    It's been many months since the Doctor was in Hexford, and Mrs. Wibbsey keenly feels his absence. As her grave suspicions about her new neighbor grow, she is in danger of becoming ostracized from village life. When Mike Yates turns up at Nest Cottage...

  • The Relics of Time

    The Doctor's return to Nest Cottage lands him in trouble when a key component from the TARDIS disappears. Mrs. Wibbsey is inadvertently responsible, but all she can offer in recompense is a bag containing four curious objects. It seems that each one ...

  • Sepulchre

    The TARDIS arrives on Sepulchre, and the Doctor and Mike find themselves in an old, dark house. Who awaits the two men there? What plans have been laid for their arrival? They soon discover from their host and his housekeeper that this is the culm...

  • Serpent Crest

    Kidnapped by armed robots and whisked into the far future, the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey embark upon another epic adventure in time and space. Plunged into conflict between warring Robotovs, humans, and the deadly Skishtari, they come into possession o...

  • A Shard of Ice

    In the icy wastes of the Murgin Pass, the Doctor and Mike take refuge in a remote lodge alongside Albert Tiermann, storyteller to the king. But the owner's hospitality is repaid with a grisly attack, and suddenly death is amongst the small party. ...



  • Starfall

    Two things arrive on the same night in Central Park, New York, 1976. The first is a fireball from space, bringing with it a new identity for one Alice Trefusis. The second is the TARDIS, carrying the Doctor and his friends on the trail of an unusual ...

  • Survivors in Space

    It has been three months since the Hexford catastrophe, and Mike Yates is trying to show strength of leadership to the villagers. But with morale low and supplies running out, it is increasingly difficult to keep his own hopes up. Unless somebody fin...

  • The Dead Shoes

    What is so special about a pair of shoes on display in Cromer's Palace of Curios? When the Doctor meets Ernestina Stott there in 1932, they discover the horrific truth together. Visiting the English seaside town of Cromer in the summer of 1932, t...

  • Hive of Horror

    The night is over, and the Doctor and Mike must face their enemy in a final battle. They have an unwilling accomplice - and loyalties are about to be tested to the limit. As a new day breaks over Nest Cottage, the Doctor and Mike know they have ...

  • A Sting in the Tale

    In a bleak midwinter, an order of nuns protect their Mother Superior from ravaging dogs. Something is very wrong here - and the Doctor is about to get stung. The Doctor arrives in a bleak English midwinter of long ago. Plunging into the snowy lan...

  • The Stuff of Nightmares

    ''Wanted: retired army Captain for light household duties and fireside companionship. Must tolerate mild eccentricity and strong scientific advice. Knowledge of giant maggots, super intelligent spiders, and prehistoric monsters a positive boon.'' ...

  • The Circus of Doom

    The circus has come to town - and so has the Doctor! Watching the parade pass by in 1832, he finds the people of Blandford strangely drawn towards the garish big top, and knows that something is terribly wrong. The only thing to do is pay a visit. ...

  • Lost on Mars

    With the scale and scope of a great sci-fi epic, this is the story of Lora and her family, third generation settlers on the red planed, who are struggling to survive o a smallholding in the desert landscape, surviving storms and sinister rumours of u...

  • The Diary of a Dr Who Addict

    It’s the 1980s and David has just started secondary school. He’s becoming a teenager, while hanging onto the rituals of childhood, particularly his addiction to Doctor Who: sharing the books with his best friend and neighbor, Robert, and watching...

  • Brenda and Effie Forever!

    Brenda and Effie are living it up on the continent. Holidaying in Paris, they are menaced by a mysterious Peeping Tom with a limp and a hump, who warns them that they must never return home to Whitby again. Untold disaster will take over the world if...



  • The Bride That Time Forgot

    The Wicked Witch of Whitby vs. the Bride of Frankenstein. Meet the good, the bad and the bitten... Something is biting people on the streets of Whitby. In an ordinary town, this would be worrying. Here, it's disastrous, and only Brenda has guesse...

  • Conjugal Rites

    No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda and when her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late-night phone-in show it can only mean one thing. But fate has an even bigger surprise in store. Roman...

  • Hell's Belles

    Discover the secret world of Whitby: mystery, mayhem and delicious black comedy. Brenda never meant to tell anyone the truth. She's got used to keeping secrets over the years. But in Whitby, people have a habit of working it out. Especially best frie...

  • The Martian Girl

    The Mars trilogy tells the story of Lora and her family, settlers struggling to survive on the red planet. Apparently safe in the City Inside, Lora becomes suspicious of its human/Martian authorities. But then she gets the chance to join their expedi...

  • Fellowship of Ink

  • The Heart of Mars

    After trekking the Martian deserts and battling against many dangers, Lora and Peter bravely set off to find the Ancient Heart of Mars and rescue Ma and Hannah. But warned by Sook, Lora discovers that the Ancients, who seem friendly, are actually the...

  • Could it Be Magic?

    Meet: Andy, a young gay man who finds himself quite unexpectedly pregnant. Following a party in Phoenix Court to which all the characters from the other books are invited, there are some very queer goings-on. Liz the transvestite lies in a coma in...

  • Fancy Man

    In print for the first time ever: Paul Magrs' 'lost' novel, Fancy Man, continuing in the same inimitable style of his queer magic realist Phoenix Court books. Meet: Wendy, who grows up the youngest of three brash sisters in Blackpool and who leave...

  • The Thing from the Sea

    In 18th Century coastal Italy, the local fishermen haul in a gigantic serpent. The Doctor identifies it as an alien, but to the ailing locals this fabled sea creature has the capacity to heal -- if only Count Otto will share it with them. When Mrs...

  • Muse of Fire



  • A Game of Crones

  • Bessie Come Home: Beyond the Doctor

  • Sleeper Agents: Beyond the Doctor

  • The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy

  • London, 1965

  • The Return of Robin Hood

    *The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) returns to Sherwood Forest in this incredible new crossover of Doctor Who and the legend of Robin Hood*Gold had come to the greenwood . . .Robin Hood is disenchanted. Maid Marion has disappeared, and the legend of the D...

  • The Penumbra Affair

    Susan Jameson reads this Beyond the Doctor story featuring the Doctor's housekeeper, Mrs Wibbsey. A letter arrives at Nest Cottage, warning of danger for all former companions of the Doctor. Intrigued, Mrs Wibbsey begins a correspondence with on...

  • Doctor Who: Dead on Arrival & Other Stories: Doctor Who Audio Annual

  • Robin Hood

    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 th...

  • Josephine and the Argonauts

    *The Doctor meets the Greek Myths in this brand-new Doctor Who and Puffin Classics crossover.*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...

  • Hunky Dory

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    Dodie Golightly has just taken charge of Hunky Dory café: the best café in the world. In a neglected corner of south Manchester they've been serving frothy coffee and late night pizzas longer than Dodie's even been alive. She's in h...

  • The Nest Cottage Chronicles

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    Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in 15 full-cast audio dramas written by Paul Magrs, plus bonus features exclusive to this edition. In Hornets’ Nest, when former UNIT captain Mike Yates is reunited with a ghost from the past, he and the Doct...

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Paul Magrs has published 61 books.

Paul Magrs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Josephine and the Argonauts, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Paul Magrs, Marked for Life, was published in January 1995.

No. Paul Magrs does not write books in series.
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