White is Never Neutral

Castle Firlight: A School Story

Book #1 from the series: White is Never Neutral

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

Book #2 from the series: White is Never Neutral

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...