Magazine editor and journalist, Ross Gilfillan is also a writer who has worked across many genres.

His first novel, The Snake Oil Dickens Man, supposes that Charles Dickens sired a son in America and tells of how Billy Talbot hooked up with a charismatic conman called Hope Scattergood to find his famous father.

Sold to 4th Estate, Snake Oil was then successfully auctioned at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

A second novel, The Edge of the Crowd (runner up for the Encore Prize for Best Second Novel), drags readers into the darkest depths of 19th Century London's poverty-stricken slumlands.

Gilfillan revisited this milieu for the non-fiction social history, Crime and Punishment in Victorian London. 

Losing It, The Growing Pains of a Teenage Vampire is a darkly comic novel about growing up, love, sex and death. 

Gilfillan spent 12 years contributing a literary books column to the Daily Mail and has written for a wide range of newspapers and periodicals. Most recently, he edited Speciality Food and Global Franchise magazines.