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Michael’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Michael Gallagher
Goodreads Author
Born
in Wellington, New Zealand
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
February 2013
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The Bridge of Dead Things (The Involuntary Medium, #1)
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2013
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6 editions
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Octopus (Send for Octavius Guy, #2)
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2016
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4 editions
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The Scarab Heart (The Involuntary Medium, #2)
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2013
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6 editions
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Gooseberry (Send for Octavius Guy, #1)
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2014
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3 editions
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Big Bona Ogles, Boy! (Send for Octavius Guy, #3)
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Oh, No, Octavius! (Send for Octavius Guy, #4)
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Why the Victorians Saw Ghosts
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2014
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2 editions
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April 2020: Lock down! Why not give away books?
Two weeks ago I received an email from Smashwords, the smaller of the two book distributors I use. They were launching a sale called Authors Give Back in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which aimed to help readers in lock down.“THIS IS NO ORDINARY SALE: Readers everywhere are going through great difficulty. There’s the difficulty of social isolation as readers shelter in place at home. Ther Read more of this blog post »
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The Scarab Heart (The Involuntary Medium, #2):
"I thoroughly enjoyed 'The Scarab Heart' - book 2 in 'The Involuntary Medium' series and for me it manages to surpass the first book in the writing, characters and plot. Victorian teenager and reluctant medium Lizzie Blaylock accompanies her mentor Mi"
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Kate McVaugh's review
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The Scarab Heart (The Involuntary Medium, #2):
"Lovely story that took me back to Egypt, albiet in Victorian times. Lizzy, the teenage medium, is very believable. Ancient Egyptian history is well researched and presented in a page-turning manner.
I think Lizzy would have liked my "Curse Breaker of " Read more of this review » |
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Sandeep Sharma's review
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Big Bona Ogles, Boy! (Send for Octavius Guy, #3):
"First i would like to congratulate dear MICHAEL GALLAGHER! SIR for writing this amazing and wonderful novel . I heartly admire the way he writes. He researched the subject very well and excellently execute the squeezed essence into writing .Big Bona "
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"Whenever I start a new Octavius Guy story, I remember why I love this series so much! And this latest offering does not disappoint!
Octavius and George go undercover in the village of Highbury to investigate the Rector of the local church, a man by th" Read more of this review » |
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| You probably know this already, but it’s worth stating again. When Elizabeth Peters died before completing The Painted Queen, her family asked author Joan Hess to finish it. Hess was not just a fan but her friend, and must have recognized that this w ...more | |
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| What a treat! Taking H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds as a starting point, author H. E. Wilburson has created a sequel, reprising characters that listeners familiar with the original will be thrilled to meet again. And yes, I do mean listeners, fo ...more | |
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Suzy wrote: "That really sucks about LibraryThing. Feels kind of false to those who want the books as well when they say there are X number of copies
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First off, let me hold my hand up. I am not a fan of police procedurals. I read this book for the Crimes & Thrillers reading group I attend. That said, this book doesn’t always read like a police procedural. A woman is found brutally murdered in the b ...more |
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