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The Bell at Low Tide: A Coming-of-Age Novella

On a weather-beaten English coast, a boy hears a bell tolling faintly beneath the tide — and something deeper inside himself begins to stir.

The Bell at Low Tide is a tender, lyrical coming-of-age novella set on a weather-beaten English coast and within the cloistered halls of a boarding school.

Thirteen-year-old Théo arrives at Marlen Abbey...

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Castle Firlight

Book #1 from the series: White is Never Neutral

A tender, luminous novel about friendship, quiet rebellion, and the sacred weight of memory.


When Christophe, royal by birth but exiled by silence—is sent to Schloss Tannenlicht, a cold boarding school deep in the pine forests of northern Germany, he enters a world of ancient rites and rigid tradition. Boys are named like chess pieces. Secrets...

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White Trainers, Black Soil

Book #2 from the series: White is Never Neutral

White Trainers, Black Soil is a coming-of-age novel about grief, survival, and the names we choose for ourselves.

In the post-industrial valleys of South Wales, Ieuan Morgan grows up among beetles, chip wrappers, and the long shadow of his older brother, Gethin. But when Gethin dies on the train tracks, something in Ieuan splinters — and the...

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White is Never Neutral

Book #3 from the series: White is Never Neutral

White is Never Neutral
Book Three in the “White is Never Neutral” trilogy

A novel of love, legacy, and the quiet defiance of a well-dressed prince

Christophe, heir to a European throne, has always known the rules: every gesture rehearsed, every choice bound by tradition. But everything changes with a pair of white football socks—bright, ordinary,...

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Beneath the Walnut Tree

A Figheldean School Story
Book #1 from the series: Beyond Bulford's Fields

In the Wiltshire village of Figheldean, where the hills whisper with history, two boys uncover the meaning of friendship. Their school year will change everything.

Bertram Lowe is thoughtful, precise, and newly arrived at the chapel school. Oswald Fielding is local—curious, clever, and always drawn to the edges of things. Between ink-stained...

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Sling Camp

Beyond Bulford’s Fields
Book #2 from the series: Beyond Bulford's Fields

The Great War is beginning, and the still roads of Figheldean are about to change forever.

For Oswald Fielding, life turns to iron and steam as he apprentices in the engine yards, his days measured by the pulse of pistons and the glow of furnaces that send soldiers toward an uncertain horizon. For his dearest friend Berty Lowe, duty lies at the...

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Edwin and Lionel: A Tale of St Adnams

On the Isle of Man, where gulls wheel over the harbour and the sea presses at every door, stands St Adnams School. Its blackboards, hymn books, and the strict master Mr. Kelly shape the boys who pass through—but it is the smaller moments, whispered in class or shared on the harbour road, that make the truer lessons.

Edwin and Lionel find each...

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Alton Barnes: Where the Maypole Stood

On the first of May, when dew gleams on the chalk grass and fiddles strike their tune, the maypole rises on the village green. Ribbons braid, larks climb the sky, and the whole valley of Alton Barnes remembers who it is.

So begins a year in the life of a Wiltshire village, told through harvest and haymaking, storm and snowfall, love quietly...

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Soot and Silver

Victorian London has a thousand rooftops, and each one carries its own kind of danger.

Zaid has spent his life inside brick throats and soot-dark flues, climbing for a master who treats boys like property and calls it business. Crake’s yard runs on hunger, fear, and bruises—until a chimney takes Jonah, and grief turns to something sharper....

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The Five Stitches

A rhyme whispered in childhood.
A pair of swan-neck scissors.
Five stitches, five bodies, one broken boy.

Pasha has always lived by patterns—promises measured in numbers, rituals carried in reverence, and a rhyme his mother sang as she sewed by lamplight: Snip for the liar, snip for the thief, snip for the silence that hides beneath. He remembers...

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