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Michael Gallagher is the author of two series of Victorian novels, one about a psychic, the other about a reformed thief.
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This month marks an important anniversary for me. My new website has now been up and running for one whole year. And what changes it has seen! The introduction of Gallagher's Cook It or Wot!, Muzak for Rarely Used Lifts (where I finally got to share with you some of the tracks I've made over the years), this Home page that is updated weekly, and, of course, Kitty's list each Sunday morning...with its new playable Jukebox-style playlists.
One of the most important objectives to me when building this site was to make it a place where our Twitter circle can discover more about each other than the Twitter format allows, and to that end Fabulous Friends and The Mystery Jukebox have worked a treat. I eagerly look forward to the coming year and I wish you all the best.
Featured book of the week:
OH, NO, OCTAVIUS:
OCTAVIUS GUY & THE CASE OF THE QUIBBLING CLERIC
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.
"Oh, No, Octavius is a great mystery read and I highly recommend it. Set in Victorian London, its narrator is a 15 year old reformed pickpocket and now an investigator of missing cats, persons, and treasures...A more delightful and colorful set of characters is hard to find and you will enjoy Octavius's struggles with school, encountering a dreadful bully and attempting to conjugate Latin imperfect subjunctive verbs...The story unfolds in unexpected ways and Michael Gallagher will have you guessing the truth until the very last page."
Dee50, LibraryThing Early Reviewer
Click here to download it for FREE!
Featured article of the week:
ISLINGTON
Featured recipe of the week:
FASULYE
Featured track of the week:
SPELL
Featured tweet of the week:
DAVID CHARLES
Boris Johnson was not aware that any rule was broken and he asserts that there is no evidence.
— David Charles (@actordavidc) March 24, 2023
pic.twitter.com/mT2c9hMyiA
MARCH'S FABULOUS FRIEND
As Fabulous Friends takes a three-month break in order to regroup and regather, I'd like to welcome back Ray Alexander, the very first Fab Friend from when this website first went online twelve moths ago.
When my old website was about disappear forever, Ray stepped in to host a new one through his own account for me...and for FREE. You really don't get much more fabulous than that!
KITTY'S MYSTERY JUKEBOX
Twitter friends will know just how popular and enjoyable Saturday's Mystery Jukebox can be. Kitty starts you off with a track along a particular topic and then runs the Jukebox with a paw of iron as people add to the playlist. See Kitty's list of rules and conventions here. Newsflash! Now there's an actual Jukebox!
Each week Kitty will save her second token for use on the website, just before shutting the bar and pulling the plug on the Jukebox. If anyone guesses her chosen track, they will feature in her spot! You too could snuggle into an unsuitably small cardboard box!
This week was particularly difficult because Twitter kept breaking, some perfectly posted replies disappeared, and a logistical issue between the the main Jukebox and What Would Al Add? meant some people's tokens got ignored. I apologise profusely. Kitty was looking for the keywords "storm", "devil", and "sin". She started you off with this:
These were her top picks:
from John Wilkinson @JohnWilkinson2
from Mark Rogers @Buck_Rogers23
from Michael Schettler @TypicalMob
from Janice Hyatt @17guinness
from Dooklielu @dookieloopyloo
from Paul Emanuelli @UnpubWrites
from Robert Turner @BobTurnTray
from Jill @ScottishJill
from Michelle @Michell24423236
from Jan Townsend @townsendtowers
from Sir George @RetiredBroker
from Michael Judd @kookaburra1966
from Melba Unicorn @melbaunicorn
from MickleQuaintrelle @MickleQuaintre1
Kitty's second token to close this Jukebox:
Paradise Circus
Luther: The Fallen Sun Version
Purrrt!
Kitty's Jukebox playlist:
Listen to it here:
AND FINALLY...
Remember, all my novels are still FREE to download from Draft2Digital (formerly known as Smashwords until its recent merger).
Take at look at what readers say about them. Here on the website you even get to see the video in its entirety!
Summer from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Featuring John Harrison on violin
with Robert Turizziani conducting the Wichita State University Chamber Players
Sound recording © John Harrison, JohnHarrisonViolin.com
Edited version used under a CC-BY-SA 1.0 Generic licence
John Thomson’s images from “Street Life in London” (1876-77)
courtesy of the London School of Economics Digital Library
Used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence
His book is available as a free pdf download from the London School of Economics Digital Library. Just click on the link.