Chris Callaghan

@chris-callaghan.com

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Children's Author 'When the War Comes In' - Out Now 🛠 Writes about chaos & chocolate 💥🍫 A Geordie living in London 🖤🤍 Ex RAF Engineer & Enviro Scientist 🌍 Loves wine gums https://www.chris-callaghan.com/

A geeky bloke nervously waves a purple covered book around.
The face of an author behind a laptop pretending to work while side-eyeing an advent calendar full of gin.
Several covers of graphic novels including titles such as 'Mission: Submarine Scare' & 'Mission: Lunar Launch'. Snippets of the comic book panels showing a family and members of the Chaos Crew being thrown around inside space ship type interior, an evil looking half robot/half man, and a winged person flying around a shopping mall with electricity arcing around them.
Showing the front half of a Tornado F3 jet fighter with five guys hanging around it grinning awkwardly.
The fabulous Cressida Cowell standing next to geeky author bloke, both seemingly fighting over a copy of her book, 'How to Train Your Dragon School'. In a luxurious setting.
A winding road map starting at Jan 2005 and ending in 2025 showing books produced at various years in between.
Several copies of the same book spread out. Cover shows a battleship next to the end of a row of terraced houses with cranes in the background. Open page shows illustration of happy boys in a back lane playing football with the battleship at the end of the lane.
Book Cover 'When the War Comes In' showing boy standing in a terraced street with a battleship poking out between the houses. Cranes and fog in the background. Logo reads Collins Big Cat Read On, 20 books out 28th April 2025 #BigCatReadOn and collins.co.uk/ReadOn
Four people sitting in chairs on a stage. Three looking at the forth, an awkward and nervous looking man holding a microphone and seeming surprised at how heavy it is. Backdrop are banners and a screen showing a grand Oxford building - The Sheldonian Theatre.
Banners reading ‘Breaking News’, ‘Easter Giveaway’ and ‘Is this the end of chocolate?’. Cover of ‘The Great Chocoplot’ book with man with large moustache in safari outfit holding a cacao branch and young girl with worried expression holding a bar of chocolate. A bar of ‘Cadburys Crème Egg Bar’ is resting against the book’s cover. Website www.chris-callaghan.com is also displayed.
Sign from the Society of Authors saying, "META Book Thieves. They must do the write thing." Shows illustrated crowd with banners 'Book Thieves', "Make it fair', Do the write thing' and 'Words are not free'.
Photo of a grand Oxford building at dusk with internal lights glowing with World Literacy Summit 2025 - Oxford, UK 6-9 April 2025 displayed. And the cover of my book gratuitously slapped on top (When the War Came In)
Dodgy bloke standing in front of ivy pretending he's in the woods, holding a book. Book cover shows four young people running away from a witch-like person amongst trees - suggesting the title 'The Witch in the Woods'.
Book cover. Boy stands in foreground wearing striped top and shorts. Terraced housing in background with cobbled streets. A huge battleship stands between the houses with cranes hanging around it.
Corner of a utility room/toilet with storage shelves, a floor cleaner, battered looking trolley, and two life size dummies of children - dressed in school uniform, bald, with longer than normal arms and one looking at the other with a face of pure evil.
Flag of Ukraine.
Beautiful cover of Inkbound book. A girls stands with staff in hand over a heart-shaped display of the book's title, all on top of a night time skyline of rooftops and chimneys with light shining out of windows. Background of book is a bookshelf in Waterstones.
Man painfully crouching down next to bookshelf while selfishly pointing at his own book, and ignoring the others, with mouth open and looking overly pleased with himself.
Copies of books 'The Write Stuff', 'Hooked on Books' and 'The Last Straw' by Jane Considine displayed on a table next to Easter Eggs and a puppet toy of Grandma Fantastic.
A Bookshop.org banner showing a range of covers of books by Chris Callaghan with logos of the Book Trust and the Scottish Book Trust
A tired looking man sleeping on a sofa with a little dog on his lap.
Twelve colourful covers of graphic novels spread out against a star splattered background.
A furry dog in a ball pit looking straight at you.
Paperwork spread over a table with post it notes covering details, next to a mug of coffee and a doughnut that won't last long.
A cockerpoo dog in a jumper sitting on the knee of a scruffy man in a beany hat next to a bus shelter. The dog is eagerly looking into the road.
A brave man sitting at a desk surrounded by boxes of chocolate.
Copy of Dread Wood: Terror Tower on pub table next to a pint of Guinness and a Christmas tree in the background.
Two overly keen readers standing outside Waterstones Piccadilly
Man with serious face stands in front of a presentation with a big screaming face emoji
Illustration from Little Rabbit Foo Foo where a rabbit is hiding a mallet behind his back while being told off by a flying good fairy.
A numpty holding a copy of Dread Wood: Fright Bite by Jennifer Killick and amazingly spooky cover from Tom Clohosy Cole showing a group of teens surrounded by rats!
5 bananas on top of an empty packet of doughnuts.
Several book and comic covers including Spider Man, Asterix, the Star Trek Annual 1977 and Mr Men books.