Blog Tour A Good Death - Michael Bagley

I am welcoming Micheal Bagley to Beadyjans Book Blog to celebrate the launch of his new book, A Good Death.

Here Michael reveals the main characteristics of his lead protagonist:

Five characteristics of my main protagonist.

Although one person begins as an antagonist, readers may think he becomes a protagonist later. 

The main protagonist:

• He’s 26, middle class, with a ‘good’ job and he drives a new Audi Quattro. Outwardly, then, he’s in the prime of life.

• But inwardly he’s stalled, frustrated with life and his job holds no satisfaction for him. The future seems boringly predictable. Like many people, he’s looking for a outlet and a new challenge.

• His relationships with the opposite sex remain largely sexual. Meaningful relationships are what he reads in novels.

• He does have two close friends, who he sees every Friday night and within this semi-drunken culture he finds solace.


• He’s also very intelligent. As his father tells him, “You have an IQ of 144. You should be conquering the world” and, secretly, he knows it.

So If you love books with well planned complex characters A Good Death may well be the novel for you this Christmas.

Heres the blurb to whet your appetite a little more.

The year is 2028 and it’s a stunning spring day on the Lincolnshire Wolds, when Bess finally persuades her Uncle John to tell her the story of the family scandal that’s been merely whispered about at weddings and funerals. We’re then transported back fifteen years where, as a young man, John Stafford is forced to chase his father across the USA and Europe.

We discover, over three time-zones, that A Good Death is essentially about three characters: an embittered, former military father, a quiet, troubled son, suddenly thrust into the midst of a family crisis, and a bright, questioning young woman, who acts as conscience to both uncle and grandfather. The relationship between all three is constantly tested, as John discovers aspects of his father’s past, and is forced to remember disturbing elements of his own history, when he was just a small child.


The novel is about love and hate and betrayal and in parts it’s a dark story. But all three characters are on their own personal journeys – which each feels compelled to make – and they don’t end until back in 2028, where fate, at long last, waits.

Published by Clink Street Publishing the book is out now and can be ordered from your favourite seller. Find it here on Amazon and read more about it on Goodreads.