Michael FitzAlan

Michael Fitzalan lives in south London, where he was born. His Irish parents settled on the West Side of Clapham Common and had six children in quick succession. The youngest, born in 1962, started writing thrillers at fifteen. He has a letter from the publisher praising the work but feeling that a spy story for children would not catch on. Tell that to Anthony Horrowitz.

Michael published his first fiction book, an erotic romance, The Taint Gallery in 1996., a cult classic that became a bestseller. Michael went on to write the following:

Switch, a dark thriller, Chandleresque; a nightmare comes true!

Waterwitch, a sailing adventure: two brothers sailing a boat around the Mediterranean during the Falklands War, resulting in disastrous consequences.

Major Bruton's Safari, a witty account of a coronation and safari in Uganda. As a guest of the Ugandan people a group of disparate people experience Africa with a caustic commentator, not critical of the continent but of his own friends and family.

Innocent Proven Guilty, a thriller on the lines of 39 Steps. A teacher discovers his brother dead in a pool of blood, he wants to find the murderer but he left his footprints behind.

Seveny Seven, ‘Punk Portrait’ The story of growing up in London during the punk era, is a whimsical biography that explodes the myth that ‘Punk’ was an angry working class movement.

Karoly's Hungarian Tragedy, which tells the story of a boy taken to the Romanian front line at fifteen, arrested by the communists in his twenties and working in a coal mine until his liberation in 1956 and his escape to England.

Carom, a thriller about art theft and drug smuggling. A vicious art thief is pursued by Finn McHugh and his team as the action moves between London, Paris, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. Everyone wants to catch the villain resulting in a messy bagatelle. Carom is an Indian board game.

ADBEC, a dish best eaten cold; a school boy takes revenge on a bully. Stephen is a late arrival at a prep school in the depths of Shropshire. He is challenged to a ‘tunnel dare’ by the school bully. When the tunnel collapses on the bully, Stephen has to solve the dilemma, tell no one and be free or rescue the bully and be tormented more, set in a seventies Shropshire progressive preparatory school.

Remember the Fifth of November is Michael's tenth book and is his first historical novel. The true story of the Gunpowder Plot and Robert Cecil's successful destruction of the Catholic hierarchy in England.

Poseidon Bay is set in a post-Brexit Britain, in 2029, the centenary of the Wall Street Crash. The rich lived in gated streets guarded by security; the poor barter and smuggle to survive, working for gangsters like Terence Lawless. Salesman thrive and Aubrey East is selling silver to Lawless but he falls for Adel, a gorgeous member of Terence's team. he agrees to go swimming with her and Freddie, Lawless's only son. Freddie drowns and Aubrey is framed for the murder. Can he clear his name before Lawless's ruthless men catch him?