A Small Bowler Hat by G N Lawson

A Small Bowler Hat by G N Lawson

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Publication Date : 5th March 2026

Publisher : Blossom Spring Publishing

Genre : Fiction

Page Count : 210 pages

Series / Standalone : Standalone

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Brian Beattyโ€™s two passions in life are his art gallery, supported by the wealthy Eddie Battersby, and silent comedy films. His family knew Stan Laurel, who is Brianโ€™s idol. For all his perceived innocence, Brian is a master at attracting publicity, due to his habit of dressing up in the costumes of silent movie stars.

He seems wholly unaware of the plotting going on around him by two rival gallery owners, Angela Whyte and Ken Woodward, as well as Eddieโ€™s wife, Tina. Angelaโ€™s property developer husband, Tony, also has his own interests in Brianโ€™s gallery and contacts a wily hotelier and local councillor to get his hands on the building.

But as Angela and Ken pursue their separate plans, their relationships begin to unravel, while Tony finds dealing with the council far trickier than heโ€™d anticipated. Despite his reluctance to have his wife run an art gallery, Eddie, after much scheming, comes up with a compromise.

Meanwhile, things intensify further when Brian passes away after a short illness, and two of his friends make a shocking discovery, uncovering what lies inside a locked wooden box.


About G N Lawson

Apart from three years studying History of Art and Philosophy at University College London, I have lived my entire life in the North West โ€“ born in Warrington, lived and worked in Manchester, and fourteen years ago moved to north Cumbria.

After several years of freelance arts journalism, I ran a NW-based public relations agency called Lawson Leah in the 1990s, then worked for various organisations in the construction industry, as CEO of Construction for Merseyside Ltd and then Director of the Civil Engineering Contractorsโ€™ Association. I have been a guest lecturer on urban regeneration and chaired a housing association for three years, and now work part-time as a consultant.

I have had articles on a range of topics, including the arts, construction, engineering, housing and economic development published in numerous magazines, as well as poetry and a guidebook to waterway walks in the NW.

My approach to writing tends to involve identifying a problematic situation and then finding a means of resolving it. I derive particular pleasure from finding the right words to achieve that. I was first inspired to write, as a teenager, after reading The Catcher in the Rye, and latterly find inspiration in the daunting novels of Bellow, Nabokov and Pynchon.

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