DuGallan — The Author

The grandson who inherited the trail

DuGallan — known as DG — writes adventure mystery books for the child in all of us. Books that span continents and generations. Books where the reader is never talked down to and the trail never fully ends.

The Hughes Chronicles grew from a true family story. DG's grandfather ST Hughes — Welsh, brilliant, stubborn — bred racehorses in the Orange Free State, created a remarkable herbal tea, and disappeared into the Belgian Congo in the late 1930s. DG's mother Daphne carried the question of him through her life. In her final months she gave DuGallan her recipe tins — her last wish that he carry on the journey of discovery.

The name DuGallan is not invented. Look carefully — Dugallan. Hidden inside the brand, exactly the way ST hid his initials in every place he ever lived.

He writes adventure because ST lived adventurously. He writes mystery because that is what ST left behind. The trail in these books is genuine. Every character lived. The places are rooted in real history — and one valley may or may not exist. That is part of the mystery.