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

His latest works are a devastating literary historical novel titled ‘In Leicester Fields’ (out Sept 2, 2025) and his first crime outing, ‘The Capo’s Daughter’ (Rampart Books Aug 5, 2025).

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 (Pen & Sword). 

Losing It, The Growing Pains of a Teenage Vampire (Lodestone Books) 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.