Beyond Bulford's Fields

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...