An evening with S. J. Galbraith - Sheffield Orchard Square

Join us for the launch of a gripping debut crime novel that moves seamlessly between the grit of Manchester and the familiar landscapes of South Yorkshire.

When a young woman's body is found neatly laid out in an unoccupied city-centre apartment, Detective Inspector Cassie May is drawn into a dark, multi-city investigation. But the case gets uncomfortably close to home when the flat's owner - and Cassie's new boyfriend - is accused of the M**der.

Set across the leafiest of Sheffield suburbs, stretching from Ecclesall Road and Hunters Bar up through Nether Edgeand Lodge Moor, and out onto the bleak, snowy stretches of the Snake Pass, The Wythenshawe Dandy delivers a masterclass in regional noir. It presents a discomforting picture of a contemporary North where privilege and wretchedness coexist.
Originally from South Manchester, Stephen Galbraith moved to Sheffield in 1994 and still lives in the city with his wife and daughters. After working in senior management in several business sectors, he sold his company and embarked upon a Creative Writing MA at Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating with Distinction. The Wythenshawe Dandy is his debut crime novel.
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Kerry Hadley-Pryce lives and writes in the Black Country, UK. She has a PhD in creative writing and teaches creative and professional writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She co-edited Writing Under Fire: Poetry and Prose from Ukraine & the Black Country, and has short stories published in Best British Short Stories 2023, Takahe Magazine, Fictive Dream and The Incubator. She has had three novels published by Salt Publishing: The Black Country, Gamble, and God’s Country. Lie of the Land is her fourth novel.