Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Author: Steve

  • Bones and Bedlam

    Happy to report that The Kingdom of Bones will be published in the UK by Ebury Press in November, with The Bedlam Detective following early next year. More news on this, like covers’n’stuff, when I have it. I met with Gillian Green and Hannah Robinson yesterday and I have to say, it’s an exciting development.…

  • Stephen Laws

    My good friend, fellow-writer, and fearless reprobate Stephen Laws has joined the blogosphere. You can follow him here, or by going to www.stephenlaws.com. Tell him that I sent you. And that I’d labelled him ‘odd stuff’.

  • #LitChat

    Tonight (Friday, March 30th) I’m putting on my grownup’s hat to be guest host in a moderated one-hour Twitter conversation about writing in general and The Bedlam Detective in particular. Anyone can join in and I hope you will, or it’ll be a pretty lonely hour for me. You can follow the conversation using the…

  • Stasio on Crime

    The Bedlam Detective reviewed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times: “Gallagher’s detective is a man of fine character and strong principles, but he’s upstaged by the monsters he pursues. Watching Becker track down a pedophile is gratifying, but it can’t beat the sight of 20 overburdened boats hurtling through white-water rapids or Sir…

  • The Reprisalizer

    Anyone familiar with British 70s paperback series, and particularly those from the New English Library, will know exactly what’s going on here. This spoof site is the brainchild of British comedy actor Matthew Holness, whose previous comic creation was horror writer Garth Marenghi, the “self-appointed mastermind author” and writer, producer and director of Garth Mareghi’s…

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    They don’t sign the notices over at Kirkus Reviews so I don’t know how better to describe this one… “Gallagher has been called a horror writer, a fantasy writer, a non-fantasy writer, a writer for big screens and smaller ones, a writer whose considerable talent has enabled him to slip in and out of genres…

  • Savage Season Interview

    From an interview just posted on the Savage Season Books website: “I’ve never consciously scheduled my career to the extent that I could say, Oh, yeah, I put this aside and focused on that. If you do this for a living then you’re relentlessly pushing to do all you can all the time in whatever…

  • I got piles

    Barnes & Noble, 53rd and 3rd, New York With thanks to Stephanie. You can order from B&N online here, where they’re also selling the eBook for the Nook and taking pre-orders for the audio version.

  • Murder Rooms: The Ultimate Collection

    If you were planning to order this DVD set, hold off; there’s a problem with it. Instead of the promised widescreen remastering, the discs contain stretched and distorted ‘fullscreen’ images of very poor quality. Even at 4:3 the transfer is pretty awful. My set’s going back, pronto. I’ve emailed the distributor and I’ll pass on…

  • The Movies, Mr Fairbanks, and Me

    Looking back, 1977 was a key year for me. I didn’t rocket to fame, I didn’t take British culture by storm – though I’m sure those were the dreams I was having at the time. What I did in ’77 was to stage a play with a local amateur company (a talented bunch who deserved…