Paul Magrs
Autor(a) de Sick Building
About the Author
Paul Magrs is a lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Séries
Obras de Paul Magrs
The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy: The enormously funny parody of Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the… (2021) 16 cópias
The Further Adventures of Iris Wildthyme — Editor — 2 cópias
Femme Fatale 2 cópias
Brenda and Effie: Beyond the Veil 1 exemplar(es)
By Paul Magrs Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback)) [Mass Market Paperback] 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who: Demon Quest 3 - A Shard of Ice 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who: Demon Quest 2 - The Demon of Paris 1 exemplar(es)
Doctor Who: Demon Quest 4 - Starfall 1 exemplar(es)
The Vanity Box 1 exemplar(es)
What Now, My Love? (in Pretext) 1 exemplar(es)
Bafflement and Devotion: Iris at the Edges 1 exemplar(es)
The Foster Parents [ss] 1 exemplar(es)
The Curious Package 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It (2013) — Contribuinte — 76 cópias
Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who (2007) — Posfácio — 44 cópias
Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 2: Writings on the Classic Series (2010) — Contribuinte — 29 cópias
Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 3: Writings on the New Series (2011) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Perfect Timing 1 — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years and Other Doctor Who Christmas Short Trips — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-11-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Jarrow, Durham, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England, UK - Educação
- Lancaster University
- Ocupação
- writer
lecturer - Organizações
- Manchester Metropolitan University
University of East Anglia
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 131
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- Membros
- 3,417
- Popularidade
- #7,452
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 131
- ISBNs
- 216
- Idiomas
- 1
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- 4
The story is told by Brenda who owns and runs a small B&B in Whitby. The book opens with Brenda introducing herself:
I love it here.
It’s the only place I could have settled down. I’ve never found a town like it, never in my long. long life
My name is Brenda. Hello!
Since the beginning of summer I have lived here, deliciously inconspicuous: just one more Bed and Breakfast lady in a resort that teems with Bed and Breakfasts Here, the streets are narrow and intricate; the rooftops are ramshackle and the wind is biting. The seagulls are as big as Yorkshire terriers and, for a good nine months of the year, this town is steeped in a thick sea mist… and that’s probably a good thing.
There are things here you don’t necessarily want to see.
Keep your head down, Brenda. That’s what I tell myself. Fry those sausages and eggs and bacon. Make those beds. Be welcoming. Be at home.
Any horror fan reading this is going to wonder if Brenda was drawn to Whitby because it’s a picturesque port on the Yorkshire coast, or because it was the port where Dracula’s ship the Demeter ran aground with not a soul aboard except the near-dead captain lashed to the wheel.
Whitby: picturesque seaside town
Whitby: where Dracula landed in England
To me, ‘Never The Bride’ read like a TV series of the strange and weird kind, aimed at gathering a cult following amongst those who are amused by the benignly bizarre and who enjoy uncovering genre references. Each chapter is a complete ‘episode’ in which Brenda and her friend and neighbour, Effie get involved with Whitby’s strangest visitors and residents, solving a mystery while moving the overall story arc forward. As the two of them discover the true price of visiting The Deadly Boutique for a makeover, or the downside of working as an elf at the Christmas Hotel, or the secrets the family staying at Brenda’s B&B is trying to hide or what a ghost-hunting reality TV crew will find in Effie’s antique shop, we gradually discover who Brenda really is and the legacy Effie has inherited from the generations of women who lived in Whitby before her.
The adventures are mild and amusing with some moments of tension. A bit how Dr Who was before the Doctor became The Oncoming Storm and The Destroyer Of Worlds. I liked Brenda. Effie can be a bit of a pain but somehow that made her friendship with Brenda more convincing.
By the end of the book, Brenda’s origin story and Effie’s legacy have been revealed and the two of them are established as the go-to team for dealing with anything weird in Whitby and we have reason to believe that there will be a lot of weird in Whitby.
‘Never The Bride’ made me smile. It was original and well-told, if slightly chaotic. I’m sure I’ll be back for more but this is the kind of series that I can’t read back to back without it losing its edge – like eating a whole box of chocolates in one sitting.… (mais)