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My plan for world domination is almost complete...

Mouse Noses on Toast, my first children’s novel, won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize, while another of my ‘books for little people’, Peter the Penguin Pioneer, reached the Blue Peter Book Awards shortlist. My debut adult novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. My fiction has been translated into German, Italian, Russian and, um, American.

Want to join me as I hurtle through time and space?
  • If you are writing a novel, you may be able to hire me as a mentor via the Writer’s Workshop.
  • You can book me as a magician and mentalist. Fees range from an ‘affordable’ 1p for half a card trick in the Horse & Hound, to a ‘heroic’ £1,000 for a bells-and-whistles corporate spectacular.
  • Magicians-of-the-future may like to enquire about my Harry Potter-inspired Magician’s Academy. Cloak not supplied.
Click a book, any book (below), view my magical performance page, then email me and tell me about your day.

Laurence Daren King |:--)


“It is difficult to sum up King’s dazzlingly weird, filthy-naive writing style. His first novel, Boxy an Star, was published in 1999 to gasps of astonishment. Critics described it as ‘exceptional’, ‘maverick’, ‘scorchingly poetic’, ‘my very favourite work of fiction this year’ and ‘like some delirious encounter between PG Wodehouse and William S Burroughs’.”

Katy Guest, The Independent
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