Michael Bagley

Michael Bagley was born in Islington, London, before it was fashionable, and his family moved into leafy Surrey when he was six. After graduating from Reading and Keele, he worked all over the UK, and Georgia USA, as a teacher of Politics, English, maths and ICT. He wrote his first novel, The Plutonium Factor, in 1983 and the second political thriller, Mohembo Crossing, came out five years later. They were both much acclaimed.

But the part-time writing of novels was then abandoned for a period, while he focused on the full-time job of earning a living: as a lecturer, as a writer of academic publications and trying to ensure his children grew up reasonably well-adjusted. He’s found, though, that being a writer is a bit like being an alcoholic; one may be dry but the craving never really goes. So he’s been drawn back to fiction writing, with his third novel, A Good Death.

You can find out more about it through links on this page. Its themes are controversial; whether some people are so bad they deserve to die, the perfidy of the established church and, as a counter-balance to the current narrative, it’s about men’s rights, men's sensitivities and their strengths.

Michael now divides his time between writing, English examining and vainly trying to win single-handed offshore yacht races.