THE ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES IS NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT BUT WILL BE REVEALED IN THIS EPISODIC QUEST FULL OF CLIFFHANGERS, ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY, GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ADVENTURE.Human life on a future earth is threatened with genetically engineered extinction and myths buried for millennia may yet prove to be humanity's only hope…Ancient Secrets. Cyborgs acting like Gods…mankind's last stand far in the future.Universe-wide, genetic farming weakens humanity and millions of oth...

With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr. Franklin Blake and his wife Rachel are now happily married, living in London, and blessed with a healthy baby daughter named Julia. Mr. Blake has taken his late father's seat in Parliament, and his party's fortunes are on the rise—in fact they are about to overthrow the coalition government of the day.But then the inexplicable occurs. Miss Rachel and her elderly aunt are attacked in the street by...

It seemed like an open-and-shut case. But they couldn't have been more wrong.When a 25-year-old woman is found dead in Stockholm, detective Vanessa Frank knows that there is more to the case than meets the eye. And when Vanessa finds herself on the trail of a dangerous internet community who call themselves 'incels', her world starts to unravel.These 'involuntarily celibate' men have fostered hatred towards the women who turn them down, and now women are turning up dead. Bu...

Rory is born in poverty on a Caribbean island. To give him a chance at a good life, his parents send him to an aunt and uncle in Brooklyn. Rory's dream is to return and rescue his parents from the "hellish island". For sixteen years his dream drives him to excel in everything he does. He returns to the island, but he's too late. Heartbroken, Rory researches Irish history and discovers 50,000 Irish, including his ancestors, were sold into slavery in the seventeenth century and now only 400 ...

Originally conceived as a blog to accompany Gallagher's Victorian novels, and freely available to read online, this guide provides a great introduction to the fascinating phenomenon of 19th Century spiritualism. If you can't tell your materializations from your Mumlers, or never realized just how physical ghost-grabbing could get, then this may well be the perfect book for you.

THE DEVIL'S WORK is an intriguing suspense/thriller that parallels current day events. It flirts with the thin line between fiction and reality, the real and the surreal, and makes you wonder about the agendas of banks, governments, and social media companies. The world is experiencing geological disasters, pandemics, drought, famine, and the rise of a powerful extremist group. As economies collapse, world leaders implement a single currency and rationing system to distribute the necessiti...

Gooseberry, the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective, is having his fair share of problems. Not only must he juggle the task of being Mr Bruff's newly-appointed chief investigator with the unwanted responsibility of managing London's entire criminal underclass, he also has to decide whether a drunken wretch of a man—who turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his father—is who he says he is.But when the leading actress dies in mysterious circumstances on stage during a performa...

Egypt, 1885. Theft and murder are afoot at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings. Lizzie Blaylock, a young materializing medium of some renown, and her mentor, Miss Otis, thought they were there to vacation, especially as Lizzie has decided she wants nothing more to do with her powers. Her powers, however, have other things in mind.'Powers like yours expect to be used! Who knows what will happen if you choose to ignore them?'UK English editionCover photogr...

Murky Victorian London. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Blaylock has done her best to fill her absconding mother's shoes, but her father is lazy and feckless, and her little sister is riddled with tuberculosis. When Lizzie has a fit at school, for which she is expelled, she and those around her slowly begin to realize that she may have special powers…powers to communicate with the dead.'Please!' Miss Otis wailed. 'Please! For the love of God, step back!'And suddenly the man did. A ...

Christmas is coming, and yet surely Mr Crabbit—yes, he who rules over the petty cash at Mr Bruff's law practice—cannot be so distracted by its approach that he fails to berate Gooseberry for presenting him with a water-stained receipt. Something is clearly amiss, and the Victorian boy detective vows to find out what.Join Octavius (AKA Gooseberry, AKA Octopus) and his ragtag bunch of friends as they investigate a shadowy spiritualist medium recently arrived from Massachusetts, only t...

Octavius Guy and the Case of the Quibbling Cleric. London, 1853. The well-heeled residents of Highbury have a problem: the Reverend Allaston Burr, the rector who's been foisted upon their congregation by an ancient yet legally-binding right known as an advowson. When a final appeal to Queen Victoria—as the head of the Church of England—fails to remove him from his post, they turn to Gooseberry for help.Join fifteen-year-old Octavius and his ragtag bunch of friends as they investigat...

‘Our outside door came crashing in. Deafening thumps, steel banging on steel and shrill, piercing whistles filled the hallway. Faraway voices called out in the dark: “Armed police.” Others, coming nearer, shouted orders: “Get down on the floor.”’On 28 October 1996 Glaswegian Michael Gallagher is arrested in an armed dawn raid on the London flat he shares with long-time partner, Mary Attenborough. Accused of playing a role in the IRA mortar attack on Heathrow Airport in Mar...