Paul Magrs

Wildthyme Beyond! Paul Magrs

Marc Notes: What is there left to say about Iris Wildthyme - transtemporal adventuress extraordinaire, double-decker-dwelling interstellar bag-lady, writer of wrongs, wronger of rights, all-round champion of freedom, occasional nightclub singer and frequent bar-room floozy? Find out in the latest novel from Paul Magrs. Publisher Marketing: 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 companion, Panda, are drawn into a nightmarish subterranean adventure, their friends are captured by the guards of the Empress herself for nefarious reasons of her own. Iris descends into memories of her bizarre childhood in a universe far from here... a dreadful place that the despicable poet Anthony Marvelle is trying to unleash, convinced that great riches lie in that mythical region known only as the Obverse... Friends old and new are along for the ride - including Barbra the brave vending machine, Jenny the ex-traffic warden and Kelly, the Goth girl from the bookshop who discovers she has a strange destiny as the mystical key to unlocking the dimensions. Hyspero itself awakens memories inside her... of a magical book she once read as a child... or, perhaps a book in which she once had her own adventures... And meanwhile on Earth - two or three dimensions to the left, in the realm of fictionality - Iris's fans and fanfic writers are gathering and quibbling in consternation at the curious turn the lady's adventures are taking... Contributor Bio:  Magrs, Paul Paul Magrs has published many novels, including the six-volume Spooky Mystery series about Brenda and Effie, and two about the adventures of that time-travelling adventuress, Iris Wildthyme. He published his first novel in 1996, the year he gained his PhD, which was written about the novelist Angela Carter. His first Doctor Who novel was The Scarlet Empress (1998). In recent years he has also written, for AudioGo, seventeen Doctor Who audio dramas starring Tom Baker as the Doctor.