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A Handful of Lust was a  that Paul Magrs worked on around 1991 at the same time as his early drafts of Does It Show?. It was his intended project to work on with his at Lancaster University, however, as his class progressed he favoured working on Does It Show? instead. As no version of the bildungsroman has been released by Magrs, it is therefore lost media. Read more... Bafflement and Devotion was a metatextual short story that was published in to coincide with the release of the novel Verdigris. The short story was later reprinted in Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges, clearly named in homage to the short story.

Bafflement and Devotion was most notable for the introduction of Paul Magrs into his universe of stories, a character who would go on to become a prominent recurring character in the Iris Wildthyme series and beyond.

It featured Paul Magrs, the Jane Fonda incarnation of Iris Wildthyme and her companion, the "Paul McGann" Doctor.

The story also provided a range of fictional citations that furthered the story's meta-fictional aspects. Read more... Exchange was a novel published in 2007, written by Paul Magrs. It was adapted from a short story, The Great Big Book Exchange, which was commissioned by New Writing North for their 2004 anthology, the fold-out Durham book.

The characters and locations in Exchange would later return in Enter Wildthyme and Wildthyme Beyond!, making Exchange a prerequisite for that duo of novels. Read more...

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