Scott GoughScott GoughFaith memoir and honest writing for evidence-minded readers – people who want the account to stand up, not just sound good.
I’m a project management consultant from Swindon. A husband, a father of six, and for most of my life, not a believer. I spent years trusting evidence, process, and things I could verify – and then found myself asking questions I couldn’t put down.
In early 2026 I was baptised, alongside my wife, at St Philip’s in Upper Stratton. My first book tells the story of how that happened – plainly, honestly, and without asking the reader to take anything on trust that I didn’t have to.
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A first-person account of a conversion nobody saw coming, least of all me. Written for the reader who is sceptical by nature.
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What happened after the water: a single year in which doors I never asked to be opened kept opening.
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A hospital cleaner in Hull, dreams the prophets wrote down thousands of years ago, and the question they leave open.
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A stone on Mars that only one man can lift, and an empty place between Jupiter and Saturn where the stars bend.
Coming soonMore in the notebook. Other ideas and titles are still maturing alongside these. Among them: a present-day treasure hunt that begins when a man lost in the mountains stumbles on a monk’s centuries-old directions to a relic said to grant eternal life; a historical novel set in a sealed English valley in the 1500s, where a smuggler of banned scripture is trapped by a sickness and a dragon nobody can prove is real; and a contemporary crime drama about a man framed by his own brothers, and what he does when, years later, their fate is in his hands. Each one leaves the same question open: was it God, or was it chance?
Back to top ↑Shorter pieces alongside the books – reflections on faith, doubt, and the questions that started it all. If there’s a question about faith you’d like an honest, non-preachy answer to, I’d like to hear it – it may become a piece here.
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Away from writing, I run CHAG UK Ltd. It’s home to my programme management work, StarStrike Project Management, and to the apps I make: Fablefork, illustrated adventure gamebooks for families, and Begin, a guided way to start writing your own book.
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St Philip’s is the Church of England parish church for Upper Stratton, Swindon – and the place where much of this story happened. Sunday service is at 11am on Beechcroft Road, and everyone is welcome, wherever you are with faith. It’s where I was, when I first walked in.
Give to St Philip’s. Scan the code or use the link above to support the parish through the Parish Giving Scheme.
If the book helped you, made you think, or left you with a question – I’d like to hear from you. That’s the whole reason it exists.
Email meOr write directly: hello@scottgough.com
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