Harry Gallon

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Harry Gallon is a London-based author and ghostwriter, represented by Imogen Pelham at Marjacq. He has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester, reads for The Literary Consultancy, Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, Jericho Writers, The Bridport Prize First Novel Award, and tutors at City Lit.

His work features in numerous publications, including Forward Poetry, Open Pen and The London Magazine. His debut novel, The Shapes of Dogs’ Eyes, was published by Dead Ink Books in 2015; its follow-up, Every Fox is a Rabid Fox, in 2017. His third, Small Rivers, came out in 2021.

Novels

Small Rivers

(2021)

Examining the cultural fractures in Britain at the end of 2016 and the impact of Brexit on rural communities, Small Rivers explores grief, trust, national identity and xenophobia.

‘It takes a brave writer to tackle the collapse of a country while injecting consistent flashes of beauty.’ Will Ashon, author of Chamber Music

‘Gallon’s haunting prose reveals the dirty reality of rural life and all its fetid truths.’ Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them

‘Gallon wields prose with the precision of a surgeon exposing the raw, ugly metastasises of family dynamics and the far from bucolic joys of agricultural life.' Heidi James, author of The Sound Mirror

'An astute Brexit satire, by turns poetic and razor-sharp.' Sam Mills, author of Fragments of My Father

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Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox

(2017)

Robert didn't mean to kill his brother. Now he's stuck between grief and guilt with only his ex-girlfriend,, Willow and the ghost of his dead twin sister for company.

'Gallon writes with such disregard for the rules that it comes across as shockingly vibrant, ground breaking and brutal.' Ross Jeffery, Storgy

'Dark, biting humour, also desperately, heartbreakingly sad.' Jane Wright, Litro

'Gallon's writing is lucid and mordantly funny.' Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days

'Beautifully executed tale of innocence, tragedy, and the family traumas we fail to leave behind.' Fernando Sdrigotti, author of Dysfunctional Males

Made possible with the generous support of The Society of Authors K Blundell Trust Award

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The Shapes Of Dogs' Eyes

(2015)

Something strange is happening to the lovelorn, scared young people of London. They’re unhappy, I know it. And they’re under the dogs’ control.

The Shapes of Dogs’ Eyes explores love, homelessness, and a restless sense of uncertainty in a modern London as brittle and unmoored, as familiar and as chimerical, as the characters that move through it.

'Gallon’s at his best when he writes about people and places and things. The Shapes of Dogs’ Eyes succeeds when there is no pretence, just descriptions of life as lived. Gallon is a keen observer and expert chronicler.'

- Scott Manley Hadley, Open Pen.

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