Thrillers, Scottish noir and epic fantasy as Grant C Anthony. Books on anxiety, overthinking and pain as G C Anthony. Written in Scotland by a Paisley man who works in general practice.
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Grant C Anthony
Some truths are stranger than fiction. Some lies are better.
Callum Ferris makes his living on a Glasgow podcast, taking apart claims of the paranormal. Then his grandmother, on her deathbed, says something she had no way of knowing.
G C Anthony
Living with an overactive brain in a world that never switches off. Forty-one short chapters on rumination, sleep, stress, the inner critic and the pull of quick relief, written from inside the experience, with practical ways to turn the volume down.
G C Anthony
You are not broken. You are miscalibrated.
Your brain is a prediction machine, and anxiety is what happens when its forecasts of danger run hot. A clear guide to how fear is learned, why reassurance and avoidance keep it in place, and how it can be recalibrated.
G C Anthony
What the science of the nervous system tells us about persistent pain, and how understanding it can change the way it is felt and lived with.
Glasgow and Paisley on the page, real science where it belongs, and characters who give themselves away by what they do.
Psychological thriller
Some truths are stranger than fiction. Some lies are better.
Callum Ferris makes his living on a Glasgow podcast, taking apart claims of the paranormal. Then his grandmother, on her deathbed, says something she had no way of knowing. Following a run of deaths among fringe consciousness researchers, he finds an operation that turned the strangest science of the last century into a trading edge, and people prepared to kill to keep it.
Literary fiction
Ewan McLeod keeps a GP practice running: the phones, the complaints, the rota, and the store cupboard where a spare network cable sits coiled on the lower shelf. On Thursdays he visits his father, in a house that has been quieter since his mother died. Everyone depends on Ewan. Nobody asks who he depends on.
Expected releaseAutumn 2027
Sequel to Debunked
The past is in your blood. The future is in their hands.
Eleven names from a 1950s test cohort. One of them belongs to Callum's own great-uncle. What began as one family's secret has become an app on millions of phones, and Callum has fourteen days to stop what comes next.
Expected releaseMarch 2027
The Provenance Series · Book One
The past doesn't stay buried. It shows through.
Dr Alec Muir authenticates paintings, and nobody in Scotland is better at seeing what lies beneath. When a conservation officer is found dead in her Glasgow flat, DI Ellen Docherty starts asking careful questions that lead back to Paisley, to a family house full of altered photographs, and to a man who has done this before.
Expected releaseDecember 2026
The Provenance Series · Book Two
Some faces are painted over for a reason.
Eighteen months after the Pentimento case, DI Ellen Docherty is still watching Dr Alec Muir, in a file that isn't a file. When Elaine Sorley takes down the grey lady that has hung on her late father's stairs all her life, she only wants to know who the woman is. The question brings the painting to Alec, to an Edinburgh rival with an old grudge, and to a young researcher who notices something wrong in an old record. Beneath the grey lady is another woman. Someone has spent a very long time making sure nobody saw her.
Expected releaseTo be confirmed
Scottish noir
Firkin Point had been an event. This made it a structure.
A woman lies at Firkin Point on Loch Lomond, arranged rather than left, with a red crayon beside her. Five days later there is another, at Stonehaven. DCI Malcolm Strachan and DS Malik have a case that arrived already resolved, by someone who controlled not just the body but the whole event. Across the city, a man with a cold cup of tea and three sheets of paper is working through a list of names. Each of them signed something, years ago, at a children's home called Calderbank.
Expected releaseTo be confirmed
The Dimming Canopy · Book One
In Thessaria the ground has started to go wrong. The fortress of Vaelmoor holds its border with dragon fire, the wandering Telaru listen to the roots, and between them stand the dragon Threnvald and the man bound to him. Epic fantasy about power, restraint, and what a bond costs when it is used without asking.
Expected releaseJune 2027
The Dimming Canopy · Book Two
The ground beneath Thessaria has begun to stir. Root-Fathers are dying, a remote listening post has gone silent, and the dragon Threnvald and the man bound to him must learn to work together again, by asking rather than taking, before something far older than the war decides what it wants.
Expected releaseWinter 2027
The Veilborn Trilogy · Book One
The past belongs to no single present.
Nine people in nine broken realms each live by a gift for reading what others leave behind: an archivist who opens the crystallised moments of the dead, a stone-reader who hears the lives held in hillsides, a woman who eats grief for a living. Then, in the medium each of them knows best, the same call arrives. One word. Cradle. Nine roads lead to the same place, and something there has been waiting a very long time.
Expected releaseTo be confirmed
The Veilborn Trilogy · Book Two
It isn't finished.
Six weeks after the restoration, an echo arrives at the Archive that nobody could have fixed: the hollow where nine roads meet, seen from the Cradle's side. The Cradle can feel the whole length of itself again, and it has something to show the nine who answered. There is an inside. At its edge is a veil, and on the far side the mist is rising. One by one they are called back, deeper this time, towards the place where the breaking began.
Expected releaseTo be confirmed
The Veilborn Trilogy · Book Three
The roads are getting shorter.
Since the Veil, the nine realms have begun to show through one another. At dusk the crystal bridge in Lyrinth shows the stone towers of Grannakh, faint in the air and a little clearer every week, and the roads between the cities are getting shorter. Then a grey cord turns up at the edge of the shimmer, pulled tight as though something on the far end were pulling, with an echo knotted at its heart. The realms are coming together. Someone has spent a very long time making sure they never would.
Expected releaseTo be confirmedPlain, warm books on how the brain predicts, worries and hurts, written for the person living with it.
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Living with an overactive brain in a world that never switches off. Forty-one short chapters on rumination, sleep, stress, the inner critic and the pull of quick relief, written from inside the experience, with practical ways to turn the volume down.
Anxiety, panic, OCD and trauma
You are not broken. You are miscalibrated.
Your brain is a prediction machine, and anxiety is what happens when its forecasts of danger run hot. A clear guide to how fear is learned, why reassurance and avoidance keep it in place, and how it can be recalibrated.
Pain neuroscience
What the science of the nervous system tells us about persistent pain, and how understanding it can change the way it is felt and lived with.
The mind, the science behind the stories, and the places in them.
30 October 2026 · The Noisy MindWhy your mind replays conversations at 2amYou said something slightly wrong at work. Hours later, in the dark, your mind is still going over it. Why that happens, why it feels so convincing, and what actually helps.Read the full note 30 October 2026 · The Calibrated MindWhy reassurance makes anxiety worseChecking, asking, searching your symptoms online. Reassurance brings relief within minutes, and that relief is exactly what keeps the fear in place. Why it works that way, and how to step off.Read the full note 30 October 2026 · PentimentoWhat is a pentimento?The word means repentance. In a painting it’s the trace of something the artist changed their mind about, coming back through the paint years later. Why they appear, what they give away, and why the Provenance Series is named after them.Read the full note Grant Anthony was born in Paisley and works as a practice manager in Scottish general practice. He writes fiction as Grant C Anthony and nonfiction as G C Anthony.
His thrillers and Scottish noir lean on real places and real science: Glasgow, Paisley and Renfrewshire, the history of consciousness research, the trade in art and its forgeries.
In fantasy he is writing The Dimming Canopy, a five-book epic set in Thessaria, where a fortress holds its border with dragon fire and a wandering people listen to the roots: a series about power, restraint, and what a bond costs when it is used without asking. Alongside it is the Veilborn trilogy, which follows nine characters from nine broken realms.
His nonfiction grows out of years spent close to how people cope, and don't, with their own minds.
He is also a photographer.