{{Short description|Novel by H. M. Tomlinson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{mfn|date=June 2025}} {{italic title}} thumb|First edition (US) '''''Gallions Reach''''' (1927) is a novel by H. M. Tomlinson first published by Heinemann in the UK and by Harper & Brothers in the US. The book was Tomlinson's debut novel.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Mayer | first=Frederick P. | title=H. M. Tomlinson: The Eternal Youth | journal=Virginia Quarterly Review| volume=4 | issue=1 | year=1928| pages=72–82 | jstor=26434225 }}</ref> It was republished by Penguin Books in 1952. It is a literary crime novel, initially set in London, before moving to Malaya.<ref> Baldick, Chris, ''Literature of the 1920s : Writers among the Ruins''. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2012 {{ISBN|9780748627301}} (p. 15).</ref> It is notable in that Tomlinson uses real streets and locations for settings.
The protagonist, Jimmy Colet, commits a serious crime near the start of the novel, and, despite originally intending to give himself up, leaves London by ship soon afterwards.
Tomlinson uses the stream-of-consciousness technique throughout the novel.
==Reception== {{expand section|date=June 2025}} Upon its publication in 1927, ''Gallions Reach'' received attention from contemporary reviewers. A review in Time (magazine) described the novel as containing “fine and original writing” and noted that some critics had compared Tomlinson’s maritime atmosphere to Joseph Conrad, while questioning the fairness of labeling him an imitator.<ref>{{Cite news |last=TIME |title=Books: Gallions Reach |url=https://time.com/archive/6766886/books-gallions-reach/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250725011403/https://time.com/archive/6766886/books-gallions-reach/ |archive-date=2025-07-25 |access-date=2026-02-24 |work=TIME |language=en}}</ref> The novel was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1928–29, recognising it among notable English-language works of the period.<ref>{{cite news |date=29 May 1929 |title=From Bookstall and Study |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19290529.2.27 |access-date=25 February 2026 |work=The Star}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 May 1929 |title=Gallions Reach |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19290501-1.2.72 |access-date=25 February 2026 |work=The Straits Times}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *TIME Magazine. 1927;10(15):38. Accessed June 10, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=54757377&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site *Koger G. H. M. Tomlinson. Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. January 2003:1. Accessed June 10, 2025. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=164522353&lang=ru&site=eds-live&scope=site
==External links== * [https://archive.org/details/gallionsreach0000toml/page/n7/mode/2up Full text of ''Gallions Reach'' at the Internet Archive]
{{Authority control}} Category:1927 debut novels Category:1927 British novels Category:British crime novels Category:Novels set in the British Empire Category:Novels set in London Category:Southeast Asia in fiction Category:Heinemann (publisher) books Category:Harper & Brothers books {{1920s-crime-novel-stub}}