Stephen Gallagher

Last weekend found me back in Pooley Bridge. It’s a village at the northern tip of Ullswater in the Lake District with a post office, a couple of pubs, a handful of tourist shops, a posh bistro, and a steamer pier. Ullswater is, for my money, the fairest of the Lakes, and the village was…

Available now… two new trade paperback titles from The Brooligan Press. Frankenstein’s Prescription Banished to an isolated rural for killing a fellow student in a duel, Hans Schneider meets the mysterious Dr Lavenza and learns about Frankenstein’s prescription—the secret of eternal life. Together, Schneider and Lavenza set out to collect the missing pieces of the…

A retrospective ‘umbrella title’ that’s become attached to four consecutive novels written during my publishing run with Hodder & Stoughton, just before the balance of my career tipped more toward screenwriting. Four linked stories in a shared Northern landscape, playing variations on a theme of flawed good versus complex evil. Though it was never my…

With a third, new collection of material to follow later in the year

This is kind of exciting… following on from the mass-market publication of The Authentic William James comes the first paperback appearance of The Spirit Box, previously available in this gorgeously boxed format with a cover by Chris Moore: The Spirit Box is closely followed by the paperback debut of The Painted Bride and then, for…

As the Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor’s Visitor in Lunacy, Sebastian Becker delivers justice to those dangerous madmen whose fortunes might otherwise place them above the law. But in William James he faces a different challenge; to prove a man sane, so that he may hang. Did the reluctant showman really burn down a…

Towering insights. Answers to the great questions of life. My short interview with Lucy Hay on her Criminally Good blog. Read it here

The Goodreads people have drawn five names from their virtual hat and it’s congratulations to Stephanie, Betty, Antoinette, Beryl, and Courtney. Signed copies of The Authentic William James are on their way. More Brooligan Press titles and promotions will be coming soon.