Ross Gilfillan

My latest novel is the historical 'In Leicester Fields', but before this:

The Snake Oil Dickens Man (4th Estate)

Billy Talbot grows up in Missouri and is informed he's the illegitimate son of Charles Dickens. Questing to find his famous father, Billy connects with conman Hope Scattergood, who makes his money impersonating the great writer. The novel was successfully auctioned at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The Edge of the Crowd (4th Estate)

My second, historical novel ranges in backdrop from the glass palace of The Great Exhibition of 1851 to the East End's horrific slum-lands but also visits Florence and Siena, as Henry Hilditch, writer of sensational newspaper reports, searches for lost love, Mary Medworth. Runner up for the Encore Prize for Best Second Novel, 2002.

Crime and Punishment in Victorian London (Pen and Sword)

My first non-fiction offers a street-level view of the world Henry Hilditch investigates, one of pickpockets and prostitutes, low lodging-houses, conmen and muggers, burglars and killers.

Me, Diesel & The Goth Girl (Ballingdon Books)

A dark but funny comedy about 17 years old Brian 'B.J.' Johnstone and his search to find himself and lose his virginity, Written under the pen-name K.C. Harris.

The Last of the Revolution (Ballingdon Books)

Washed-up journalist Anthony Carver arrives on the volatile island of San Joaquin to discover that a second revolution is brewing and that Cristo, iconic leader of the the first, may not be dead after all.

The Capo's Daughter (Rampart Books)

My debut crime novel introduces foster-child Juliet Hobson, who grows up largely ignored and yearns to know the identity of her biological parents – until she learns that her father is an East-End crime boss.

In Leicester Fields (Ballingdon Books)

In 2025, I returned to historical fiction with a historical novel I had been working on for some years. Set in London of 1783, In Leicester Fields tells of Michel Angelo, a fiery female orphan from London's Foundling Hospital who is apprenticed to the dying artist, Henry Grace, now secretly painting a final, epic work in his attic. When Michel enlists Grub Street journalist 'Mouse' Malone to investigate Grace's coded masterpiece, hellish forces are unleashed.