Simon Caldwell
Journalist
& Novelist

The Beast of Bethulia Park
S.P.Caldwell

When Ray Parker dies unexpectedly in Bethulia Park Hospital, his suspicious family launch a campaign for justice. They recruit the young and idealistic hospital chaplain Father Calvin Baines to find a beautiful nurse who might unmask the doctor they believe is guilty of murder. When Emerald Essien enters his life, the priest finds his high principles are put to the test in a way that drives him to the edge of despair as he is propelled into a dark world of sexual obsession, danger and death …

“The Beast of Bethulia Park is a gripping psychological novel with Catholic themes but is also a wonderful thriller in its own right. Caldwell is an exciting new voice with a journalist’s eye for crime detail and medical research. The priest belongs in the top literary gallery of priest protagonists who are all too human and find themselves up against clerical authority. A major new talent has arrived.”    William Cash

Photo: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk

978 085244 700 0

400 pages   

£20.00  (Publication October 2022)

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‘The Beast of Bethulia Park’: An October 2022 interview with the author by Dr Gavin Ashenden on Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald.

‘A Catholic thriller’: A November 2022 article about The Beast of Bethulia Park reproduced with the kind permission of The Messenger of St Anthony in Padua, Italy

‘Published against all the odds. Whodunnit? Our Simon did’: An article by Margaret Ashworth, the editor of The Beast of Bethulia Park, published by TCW: Defending Freedom on November 19 2022

‘An excellent work of fiction’: A review by Dr Pravin Thevathasan for the February 2023 edition of the Catholic Medical Quarterly

‘Lurking in the Shadows’: A review by Georgia Gilholy in the April 2023 edition of The Catholic Herald

‘Take flight with Simon Caldwell’s Catholic novel’: A review by Anna Farrow for The Catholic Register, published May 25 2023

‘A thriller with grit and depth’: A review by Anna Farrow for the Catholic World Report, published May 26 2023

‘A Catholic Tale for Summer’: A review by Elizabeth Scalia for Our Sunday Visitor, published online May 28 2023

‘The 21st Century Catholic Novel’: An abridged version of a talk given to the Catholic Writers’ Guild on April 26 2023, and published in the June 2023 edition of the Catholic Herald

‘Sex, Drugs and Dr Death’: A review by Joseph Pearce for The Imaginative Conservative, Sunday October 1 2023

Fact and Fiction in The Beast of Bethulia Park: A talk given to the Portsmouth diocesan symposium on healthcare ethics in Winchester on Saturday March 16 2024

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St Gabriel News and Media was founded by Simon Caldwell, a journalist who has spent decades in the national, religious and regional press, including more than 10 years at the foreign desk of the Daily Mail. He has researched and written hundreds of exclusive stories for such major UK publications as the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Sun and the Spectator, as well as the Catholic Herald and the Church Times.

Much of the work is investigative and campaigning. From inside and out, St Gabriel News and Media has a sure knowledge of how Fleet Street publications operate, what will look good in print, what is likely to interest news desks and how to get stories published.

St Gabriel News and Media is always looking out for good quality stories. We could help you to tell – and sometimes sell – yours.

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St Gabriel News and Media was founded by Simon Caldwell, a journalist who has spent decades in the national, religious and regional press, including more than 10 years at the foreign desk of the Daily Mail. He has researched and written hundreds of exclusive stories for such major UK publications as the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Sun and the Spectator, as well as the Catholic Herald and the Church Times.

Much of the work is investigative and campaigning. From inside and out, St Gabriel News and Media has a sure knowledge of how Fleet Street publications operate, what will look good in print, what is likely to interest news desks and how to get stories published.

St Gabriel News and Media is always looking out for good quality stories. We could help you to tell – and sometimes sell – yours.

St Gabriel News and Media offers sound professional advice in dealing with the media and could help you to build those bridges necessary to making your voice heard when you have something important to say. We know how to engage busy news editors or specialist correspondents, and how to help you to get noticed among the crowd.

We are able to produce public statements and high-quality press releases quickly, ensuring that the voices of our clients might be heard as news stories are breaking, and we are able to send them out via a broad and established range of national and international media contacts and outlets.

We will arrange interviews or press conferences for you or deal directly with the media on your behalf. Our recent clients include the family of Tafida Raqeeb, a girl with a brain injury who in autumn 2019 won a landmark case at the High Court to leave the UK for Italy to receive treatment to improve her condition and to prolong her life.

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St Gabriel News and Media offers sound professional advice in dealing with the media and could help you to build those bridges necessary to making your voice heard when you have something important to say. We know how to engage busy news editors or specialist correspondents, and how to help you to get noticed among the crowd.

We are able to produce public statements and high-quality press releases quickly, ensuring that the voices of our clients might be heard as news stories are breaking, and we are able to send them out via a broad and established range of national and international media contacts and outlets.

We will arrange interviews or press conferences for you or deal directly with the media on your behalf. Our recent clients include the family of Tafida Raqeeb, a girl with a brain injury who in autumn 2019 won a landmark case at the High Court to leave the UK for Italy to receive treatment to improve her condition and to prolong her life.

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“Simon Caldwell is an outstanding journalist who diligently and carefully researches his stories, often writing about overlooked and neglected subjects – giving voice to causes and people whose stories deserve to be told. A good journalist will try and write accurately and truthfully. Simon Caldwell always does.”

Lord Alton of Liverpool

“You have been extremely supportive during my daughter’s legal proceedings. You took care of the entire PR work. We will highly recommend you as you are highly professional and have sincere compassion for the assignment you work with. Thank you.”

Shelina Begum, mother of Tafida Raqeeb

“I am delighted to give my full support to Simon Caldwell whose journalistic sleuthing was a major factor in bringing the Liverpool Care Pathway to an end. We continue to work together to secure justice for those, especially elderly or disabled, whose lives are ended prematurely.”

Professor Patrick Pullicino, consultant neurologist

“Simon Caldwell has been a friend of Tyburn Convent for about ten years. He writes the truth and is consistent in producing a wide range of good articles. A man of faith and integrity, he is tenacious in pursuing justice.”

Mother Marilla Aw, Mother General of the Tyburn Nuns
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