Works by
Dr. Matt Fullerty
(Writer)

Fiction

• The Murderess and the Hangman (In progress)
  A story of murder with a twist. It is told from both sides of the scaffold. In 1879 William Marwood, 'gentleman hangman' for London and Middlesex, hanged 'callous murderess' Kate Webster. Her crime? The axe-murder of her landlady, Mrs Julia Thomas, in the leafy suburb of Richmond, London.
  
  But is everything as clear as it seems? Certainly she is guilty, as we are told the story from both Kate's and Marwood's points of view. But when you set what Marwood does for a living against Kate's struggle in life, is there any room for forgiveness, understanding, redemption even? And what of the hangman who coolly moves from one execution to the next?
  
  Marwood was a professional hangman, Kate a thief attracted by the tales he tells of his past hangings - hardly the most usual of romances! Both Marwood and Kate were really people, and he really did hang her for the crime. But there is no evidence they actually knew each other. I would therefore term my novel speculative fiction, faction, or a fantasy built on fact.
  
  In addition to these characters, I wanted to explore the nature of the victim, Mrs Julia Thomas, as well as the police detectives - the new officers of the Bow Street Runners - here Inspector Gil Sequin and Nimrod Jones, as they pursue Kate across London, England itself, and eventually Ireland - in order to bring her back to Marwood's gentle arms.

• The Pride and the Sorrow: The Knight of New Orleans (Presently with Agent) -- Winner Bookhabit Unpublished Competition
  A novel following Creole chess player Paul Morphy on his tour of nineteenth century New Orleans, New York, Paris, London, Havana and back to New Orleans. Morphy conquered the world at chess but found his relationships with family, friends and the girl he pursued a little trickier than the sixty-four square madhouse.

Non-fiction

• The British and American Academic Novel: The Professorroamane, The Comic Campus, The Tragic Self (Date?)
  Matt Fullerty's Ph.D dissertation discusses British and American fiction of the twentieth century - novels, short stories and plays all about the lives of professors and students. Here the university is essentially tragicomic, beginning as comic but turning darker throughout the twentieth century...
  
  Matt Fullerty's Ph.D dissertation is available through Proquest.