Worlds
The places the books are set, from a school behind high walls to the far north of Norway.
Literary fiction
Wychwood College
An English boarding school in 1990, whose motto is Fortitudo in Silentio: strength in silence.
- Institutional silence
- Friendship and solidarity
- Being believed
- The long aftermath
The world of Wychwood
Speculative thriller
Arctic Norway
A house above a fjord in Arctic Norway, with a mountain behind it, where the timing of ordinary things carries a pattern.
- A different way of hearing
- Chosen family
- Being believed
- Exploitation and conscience
The world of WEAVER
Literary crime thriller
South London
A South London police station: the cells, the written record and the streets outside.
- Doing right when no one is watching
- Moral injury
- Criminality
- Institutional corruption
The world of The Long Second
Dark literary fantasy
The Forgetting Country
On the far side of an old tunnel beneath London: a country of impossible stars, glowing rivers and giant trees, where nobody grows old.
- Invisible children
- Memory and names
- Kindness as a trap
- Found family and promises owed
The world of The Forgetting Country
Literary dystopian fiction
An island off the coast
A facility on an island off the coast of Britain, and across the water an England that has learned to look away.
- Cruelty dressed as public safety
- Chosen family
- Ordinary complicity, ordinary courage
- Power and consequence
The world of Chimera
Illustrated children’s adventure
Ravnfjord
The Viking village of Ravnfjord, and three days through the forest to the healer in Elkhaven.
- Quiet courage
- Everyone has a gift
- Thinking over strength
- Norse myth and Viking life
The world of The Brave Little Viking
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