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Posted on February 14, 2012 - by MG

Welcome to MG’s website!

MG Harris is the author of the internationally best-selling young adult thrillers, THE JOSHUA FILES. Explore this site for videos , photos , interviews, as well as news of MG’s latest projects.

Also see THEMGHARRIS.COM for extra Joshua Files goodness!

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Posted on March 10, 2011 - by MG

Blog swap! Katherine Langrish and MG Harris interviewed by teen readers.

Today it is my turn to host the fabulous Katherine Langrish on her WEST OF THE MOON blog tour. Katherine and I are interviewed by two teenage readers, Libby and Patrick Caffrey, who have been following both Katherine’s TROLL FELL and my Joshua Files series. You can read the interview with me over at Katherine’s [...]

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Posted on March 7, 2011 - by MG

Return to Eggli Mountain

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As I tell kids when I visit schools, the Eggli mountain near the Swiss town of Gstaad is where I broke my leg skiing, the ‘lucky break’ which gave me the time and mental space to start my writing career. I hadn’t been back – until today! Visiting my brother Michael and his family, I [...]

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Posted on February 20, 2011 - by MG

Author Visits 2011. C’mon in, sit a spell.

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The school visit season began this month. Like many fellow authors I’ve been privileged to be invited into the halls, libraries and classrooms of schools and meet teenage readers. So far I’ve met Yr7 and 8 students in Hounslow, Ealing, Bath, and enjoyed judging a poetry recital competition at Christ Church Cathedral School. Like most [...]

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Posted on January 28, 2011 - by MG

Dark Parallel trailer is here!

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Josh and Ixchel have travelled back in time, but it might not be so easy to get home again. They’ve landed in the Mayan era, when the prophecy about the world ending in 2012 was first foretold. And they cannot believe who they have found there. Clearly Josh isn’t the only person to have cracked [...]

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Posted on January 26, 2011 - by MG

Save the Libraries – Kennington (Part 1 of 2)

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It’s all over the Internet and the news – to save money, local governments plan to close down some libraries. In Oxfordshire, 20 of 43 local libraries are threatened with closure. The communities are protesting, demonstrating, writing letters. This is the moment to persuade the county councils to change their minds! I’m involved with the [...]

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The ZERO MOMENT blog tour

Here is the list of articles in the ZERO MOMENT blog tour which ran throughout May 2010, along with the kind blogs run by friends of mine who have kindly agreed to host a rant, ramble, book review or intelexshull think-piece. Z is for Zany Orange Puffles and social networking sites for children here at [...]

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A 2011 Round-Up

I know, the New Year ’round-up’ should refer to the previous year. But I’m exhausted just thinking about it. In general, I’m starting the year tired. “Why do we have New Year?” my Teenage Daughter asked me. “How is it a ‘new beginning’? If you commit a crime on Dec 31st 2010, you’d still be [...]

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Author Visits 2011. C’mon in, sit a spell.

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River Song, the Time Traveler’s Wife, Borges and The Joshua Files

River Song, the Time Traveler’s Wife, Borges and The Joshua Files. Yeah that’s right. I can use all those things in a sentence. Because all four have used one very lovely device of the time-traveling story genre: Two time-traveling characters who meet up with each other across different time-streams. The earliest story that does this [...]

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