Continuing my ad-hoc program of old script uploads, today I’ve added my screenplay for BBC Films’ Murder Rooms. The series was created by David Pirie as a spinoff from his two-part drama about the relationship between the young Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, whose observational methods would provide much of the…

A couple of weeks ago I wondered aloud on Twitter if anyone might be interested in seeing some of my old scripts posted online. This was by way of giving myself a less embarrassing retreat if the answer was a deafening silence. Fortunately not, so I tested the waters last week with Desert Knights: The…

“The Doctor wakes up on a planet of relics, a dead world, a hostile world… He has no memory of who he is, or how he got to be here. He’d better remember soon, because the very structure of reality is at risk and it all has something to do with that strange blue tomb…

The two short story collections complete the rollout of my fiction backlist under Orion’s Gateway imprint. You can find the full list of 14 titles on the Gateway author page here. From the introduction to Out of his Mind, by Brian Clemens: “These stories are varied and imaginative, each with a fascinating premise. They take…

The Orion Gateway release for May 7th: “The finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carré … Gallagher, like le Carré , is a novelist whose themes seem to reflect something of the essence of our times, whose skill lies in embedding those themes in accessible plots.”—The Independent  Rachel’s in trouble. She’s a…

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This week’s release on the Orion Gateway ebook list: A new kind of predator is on the loose. When the middle classes began to adopt vodoun as a lifestyle fad, their doors were opened to a ruthless white male with a command of the religion’s darker practical secrets.Rescued from the morgue and a bizarre and…

The Painted Bride is the latest backlist release under Orion Publishing’s Gateway imprint, available on various ebook platforms here. “Stephen Gallagher’s tense melodrama is spun from the mysterious disappearance of auto dealer Frank Tanner’s wife Carol, the stalled police investigation into Frank’s possible guilt—and the complications ensuing from the obsessive actions of Carol’s burnt-out, former…

The random retweet picker has laid its blessing on Kulvinder Gill and Øddli, God of Snacks for the CHIMERA paperback ARCs. They’ll be sent out as soon as the address details are in via Twitter DM.

Orion’s takeover of the backlist has diverted me from banging the drum for the historical novels, but now’s my chance to correct that. Here’s an ebook promotion for the coming Easter weekend: On Friday April 19th (Good Friday), for ONE DAY ONLY,  the Melody James novella will be available as a FREE DOWNLOAD. Then on…