The Gallopers

The Gallopers

Jon Ransom

From the Polari Prize First Novel winner 2023 with The Whale Tattoo – Jon Ransom

‘Ransom has written a hypnotic and even more mysterious second novel…This is a lust-drenched, ache-filled gay love triangle of sorts that gnarls into a sly emotional thriller.  The Gallopers is a whispered howl of a novel’ Guardian

‘The Gallopers reads very much like Tennessee Williams.;..Ransom’s writing matches sensitivity with winning boldness and stands out for its emotional honesty’ TLS

Tremendous character and flavour…bristles with originality’ Financial Times

‘It’s a book packed with explosive secrets and deception, but it’s the hard-to-express emotions and the longing for love that lends this poignant tale its momentum’ Daily Mail

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Winner of the 2024 Polari Book Prize

Three Men, One Secret

  1. Eli is nineteen years old and lives alongside a cursed field with his strange aunt Dreama. Six months before, his mother disappeared during the North Sea flood. Unsure of his place in the world and of the man he is becoming, Eli is ready to run.

Shane Wright is a man with plenty to hide. Caught in a complicated relationship with Eli, Shane is desperate to maintain the double life that he has created for himself.  Then Jimmy Smart appears. Jimmy Smart, the mysterious showman who turns the gallopers at the fair. Under his watchful gaze, Eli discovers a world he knows nothing about with rules he cannot understand.

Jon Ransom grew up in Norfolk and now lives near Cambridge. He was a mentee on the 2019 Escalator Talent Development scheme at the National Centre for Writing. Ransom’s short stories have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Queer Life, Queer Love amongst others. He was awarded an Arts Council grant to develop The Gallopers

Additional information

Imprint

Muswell Press
ISBN

9781739193034
Publication Date

20240125
Subjects

FIction
Format

eBook
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