About This Website
Hi,
My name is Paul Gallimore. This website is essentially just a reference site for anybody who has read either of my two books and would like to get in touch - Steven Spielberg, for instance.
I don't anticipate that there is ever going to be anything very exciting going on here. I won't be blogging, or explaining how to lose weight, become a better manager, get rich quick, or enhance your psychic abilities.
This is just a place where I can introduce myself to my readers and leave a contact address. If you want to get in touch for any reason, I will be delighted to hear from you.
Paul
Digby Literary Agency
The Apathy Engine
The Mary Celeste Papers
Published January 2020
Digby Literary Agency
Digby Literary Agency (Published: Jan 2020) is Paul Gallimore's latest novel to slot not very seamlessly into at least three genres at the same time: humour, straight-up mystery, plus the merest suggestion of paranormal shenanigans.
Here's a question for you. Can you seriously imagine how it would feel to get dumped by your fiancé and then lose your well paid commissioning editor's job, all within a matter of a few days?
Alright, maybe you can, but in Terry Digby's case that's barely the beginning, as a chance encounter draws the sulking, near-defeated, twenty-something into the risky world of counter-terrorism and undercover reporting for MI5.
Read and laugh as Terry falls into a giant hole and keeps on digging. Having written racist literature to help defeat the fascist Fifth Reich (strange way of going about it, I admit), he is obliged to write a bestselling romance novel in order to appease his mysterious saviour and benefactor.
With Europol snapping at his heels and the Kilburn Nazis watching his every move, Terry must try to keep his friends happy and rebuild his love-life, while simultaneously attempting to foil a plot to blow-up a famous football stadium. Will he succeed or will dark forces stop him in his tracks?
Being a very funny, feel-good novel, with some proper danger and derring-do and just a smidgen of romance in the mix (Don't worry chaps, nothing too slushy) you might guess he will succeed - but you could be wrong. Either way, the author guarantees that Digby Literary Agency is:
- Funny
- Entertaining
- Mysterious
- Intriguing
- Feel-good
- Clever and sophisticated
When you think about it, that's right up your street isn't it? It's you to a tee.
So, based on what we've just discussed, I think you should buy it immediately. Quite Frankly.
Published November 2017
The Apathy Engine
2042 - Will The Machines Finally Take Over . . . ?
Set in a Utopian society in 2042, intelligent machines seem set to take over the planet.
The interruptions to the normal, smooth running of an untroubled world have already begun in the form of 'glitching'. Everybody sees the problems, but due to the effects of a secret government mechanism nobody is bothered enough to react when mankind's defenses are probed and dissected.
Only Cyril Greaves, proprietor of the English Pub League website, along with his eccentric band of friends seem ready to step into the breach to fight the forces of mayhem and anarchy, and, they hope, save the world.
With only an under-developed robot, a group of Sunday league soccer players, an extremely annoying teenage genius and a handful of psychopaths to help him, Cyril must take on the mighty corporations and defeat the quantum computer menace before it's too late.
Or, maybe it's not as simple as that . . .
Is This Book For You?
Consider buying this book if:
- You love sci-fi
- You like humour
- You insist on a well-told story
- You like stories that are a bit gritty
Published October 2012
The Mary Celeste Papers
Two Great Maritime Mysteries Solved . . .
The Mary Celeste Papers
is a mystery novel with laugh-out-load consequences, which bubble up and explode out of the grit and grime of a dead-end railway depot in England. Every character you meet in the book is fully three-dimensional, with the possible exception of Billy who may even have a foot in the sixth dimension.
Is This Really What Became Of The Mary Celeste?
Follow the fates of a group of ultra ordinary railwaymen as one of them stumbles across a mysterious ship's log and thereafter falls victim to an even stranger crime. Scooped up by a tide of events way beyond their control, an unlikely band of heroes become the focus of a full-blown, worldwide, media whirlwind and all the while Scotland Yard, the CIA and even the Mafia appear to be lurking on every corner. As the unanswered questions begin piling up and defeating the finest detectives at every turn, can it really be that the coolest head belongs to cook book fixated, Lynryd Skynyrd obsessed landlady, Francine?
The Author Says It's Fiction, But What If . . .
Paul Gallimore's first mystery novel is a hugely original fusion of ideas, where raw humor transmutes into whodunit, and science fiction blurs with cold fact. What is it that this delightful assortment of misfits has accidentally dragged out into the open? Did the US Navy really conduct a top secret experiment into invisibility in 1943? Just what did happen to the Mary (Marie) Celeste and her missing crew? And will the truth finally lie somewhere in the oceans between Fulham and Philadelphia?
The Mary Celeste Papers is an intelligent, well written, thought provoking, funny book; filled to the brim with fully-formed, larger than life characters whose fortunes will grab your attention and hold it in a vice-like grip until the final page has been turned.
This excellent novel is a people book; about little guys on a big stage and you will be delighted that you chose to become part of their adventure.
It's time for you to discover why The Mary Celeste Papers has won a small army of fans and five star reviews from both sides of the Atlantic:
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- If you are a mystery story fan, this book is just for you.
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- If you like humor, check the reviews; this is a very funny book.
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- If sci-fi is your thing, you're covered. Or maybe not, it could all be true. Some of it certainly is.
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- If you prefer historical context and hard-nosed reality, you will believe that you personally know every character before the book is done.
Treat yourself to something unique, compelling and original.