Martin Campbell's Blog

Here’s an interview I did recently in advance of publication of The Insanity Inspectors.
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I am pleased to announce that my latest book, The Insanity Inspectors, will be published on 28th November, 2025 and available in paperback and Kindle formats.
Here's a link to my webpage and a summary of what to expect in the new book:

https://www.badbeathotel.com/

1858.
The first Lunacy Commissioners are appointed.

Scotland's 'insanity inspectors' travel the country, deciding who can stay at home and who needs to be committed to an asylum. Their task is a difficult one, for not every lunatic can be classified as insane and not everyone who is insane is a lunatic.

Lennox Cameron, a new inspector, juggles his time between the intense role of inspecting the shocking conditions in which lunatics live in the Scottish Highlands, and living with his opportunistic aunt and uncle, a couple trying to scheme their way into Edinburgh's polite society.
As the search for the causes and cures for insanity become more desperate, Lennox finds that the lines between what is right and what needs to be done become blurred. He is forced to make decisions about his sanity and his future. It is the price he will pay for being an honourable man, choosing purpose over achievement in his work as a physician,

Dr Peter Baird has darker motives for treating the insane. He has found a reliable way to profit from lunacy. In the end he will pay a different price.

This story is based on real cases and true events.

This is the review of Adrift in the Cemetery from the US based Reader’s Views.
https://readerviews.com/reviews/adrif...

My latest book, The Insanity Inspectors will be published in July 2025.

I am pleased to report that my latest book, Adrift in the Cemetery was positively reviewed in this week’s (Glasgow) Herald.
“An absorbing read”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_s...

Interviewed this week by the Greenock Telegraph, who will feature my new book in the newspaper
Greenock was my hometown and the book is set in Greenock Cemetery.


https://www.waterstones.com/book/adri...

Adrift in the Cemetery- A story about surviving among the dead is the follow up to the award-winning Sailor's Heart
Published in paperback and Kindle on 2nd July and available from Foyles and all good book shops.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1399970860/...

I am pleased to announce that my new book, Adrift in the Cemetery - A story about surviving among the dead will be published in July 2024. Further details to follow.

I am pleased to report two editorial reviews for Sailor's Heart this month. Always good to get this kind of feedback.
https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompa...

And

https://readerviewsarchives.wordpress...

I am pleased to share the latest review of Sailor's Heart. “Highly Recommended” award of excellence from the Historical Fiction Company.

https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompa...