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M.G. Harris was born in Mexico City and raised in Manchester, England. She studied Biochemistry at St Catherine's College Oxford and stuck around for even more at St Cross College.

To this day she lives in Oxford. It's not an easy place to leave.

The first job M.G. Harris was ever aware of wanting to do, aged six, was to write children’s books. Then, aged eight and inspired by Doctor Who, she tried to make Wirrn slime with a friend’s Chemistry Set 4, discovered chemistry, and writing went out of the window.

But in 2004, a skiing accident changed everything...

You can find out more about how MG became an author at her website http://www.mgharris.net/about-mg

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MG has recently become a semi-convert to Kindle, with frequent lap...more


You really have to take your hat off to some of the work done by successfully self-published authors, who’ve managed to sell bazillions (well, tens of thousands or more) of ebooks. For a comprehensive list of what’s possible, take a look at Jenny Blake’s spreadsheet for the self-published.


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Average rating: 4.00 · 532 ratings · 110 reviews · 7 distinct works
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Zero Moment
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Did we just imagine the Enlightenment? Because according to Francis Wheen, its enduring power to persuade might be on the wane. This is a riveting account about the 'rise' of emotion-led thinking versus rationality, as evidenced by phenomena such as...more
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One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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My favourite book of all time, I think. I re-read it every few years. The most intimidating book for an author to read! No review I could write would do it justice. READ THIS BOOK!
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"In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which girl is Oscar's sister?"
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(first posted to my blog on April 27, 2009: http://www.mgharris.net/2009/04/27/th...)

There may be a new writer for me to swoon over. Haruki Murakami may be given a run for his money.

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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
" There's only been one book in my life that I did this to - when I'd finished the last page of this completely fabulous and extraordinary book, I took it to to bed with me and held it in my arms like a child with a teddy-bear, loving it so much tha... "
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“Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children’s hands are immeasurably more important than the latest works of high-profile novelists.”
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