Books

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...

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

When Christophe—twelve years old, 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...

White Trainers, Black Soil is a queer 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...

In the Wiltshire village of Figheldean, where the hills whisper with history, two boys uncover the meaning of friendship and first love. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...