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Paul Magrs Illustrator & Author

Paul Magrs grew up in Woodham, Newton Aycliffe and Lancaster. He was a lecturer in Creative Writing at UEA, running their famous MA course, and then at MMU in Manchester. Now he writes full time, at home in Levenshulme, where he lives with his partner Jeremy Hoad. He's written many children's and YA titles, including Exchanges and Diary of a Doctor Who Addict. The first book in The Lora Trilogy, Lost on Mars (Firefly, 2015) was listed as one of The Telegraph's best YA of 2015. The second, The Martian Girl, published in 2016.