Paul Morris

Biography

Paul was a successful lawyer before turning to what he calls ‘the honest business of writing’, and says he ‘doesn’t miss the legal scrum for a moment’!

His book Time Traveller Danny and the Codebreaker was published by Seven Arches Publishing in 2012 to mark the centenary of the birth of adopted Manchester hero and WW2 codebreaker Alan Turing. It was the only YA fiction book of that special year to feature Turing as a key character, and was described by Turing’s niece as ‘just the sort of thing my late uncle would have enjoyed’.

Paul’s other published works include 2014 poetry book Beyond the Morning Sun, which reached number four in the Amazon UK Young Poetry Rankings shortly after its release. Seen through the eyes of a child, it addresses the experience of a soldier who goes off to serve in Afghanistan and returns to his family apparently unharmed, but in reality scarred deeply by his experience of war. The book is endorsed by the UK services charity Combat Stress, to who all proceeds from its sale are dedicated.