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Cathal O’Sullivan wasn’t expecting to save anyone on the last day of school. But when he pulls Elliot Chen back from the edge of a busy road, the moment doesn’t just change Elliot’s life, it rewrites Cathal’s. Elliot is brilliant, sarcastic, and stuck in a body shaped by spinal muscular atrophy and a life that feels like it’s already decided. Cathal is sharp, restless, and broke: a working-class kid with top A-levels and no clear way out. Neither of them were looking for love. But love, it turns out, might be looking for them. Over the course of three extraordinary days, the ...

At first, the voices were brilliant. Einstein helped him make sense of the universe. Hitchens taught him how to be himself. But then came Carl. And Carl said things that made Avery’s skin crawl. Sixteen-year-old Avery is a gifted boy with a mind that never sleeps and a voice that won’t shut up. When a psychotic break tears through his world, he finds himself sectioned under the Mental Health Act and plunged into the fluorescent quiet of an adolescent psychiatric ward. There, recovery isn’t a montage. It’s slow mornings, bitter tea, and the quiet, accidental friendship of a boy who ...

Jonah Sinclair is starting over. He’s left behind the stage lights of a performative childhood and arrived at university to study art, armed with a sketchbook, a sharp sense of humour, and the quiet hope that nobody here will ask too many questions. But his new flatmates are impossible to ignore: fierce, fractured, and full of feelings, they come with enough baggage to bury an emotional support animal. And then there’s Rowan. Steady, gentle, and far too observant. As Jonah begins to draw the people around him, his sketchbook starts to shift. The drawings move. They change. They reveal ...

What if the world’s not ending, it’s just having an allergic reaction to itself? Step into the wings of the Apollo Theatre with Reggie Porter, the most dangerous man in British comedy (according to Zara, his manager, and possibly MI5). With a biro, a Greggs leaflet, and six pages of forbidden insight, Reggie isn’t just doing a set, he’s detonating sacred cows one punchline at a time. From gay frogs to £6 cheddar, from God to oat milk, The Gig is not a short story, not a manifesto, and definitely not safe for anyone still clinging to certainty. It’s a stand-up sermon. A comic ...

In a world where love is treason, one boy learns the truth about the Reich, and himself. In a fractured future where the Nazis won the war and Britain is just another province in the Reich, sixteen-year-old Wilfred is a model student: loyal, disciplined, unthinking. Until he’s kidnapped by the Resistance. Now, everything he believed: his country, his family, even himself, is in question. Forced to confront the lies of his past and the horrors of the present, Wilfred finds unexpected solace in the rebel who watches over him: Samuel. Charismatic. Tender. Dangerous. As Wilfred falls deeper ...

He’s supposed to be keeping his head down – not falling for the man who could blow everything wide open. A rule-breaking detective. A razor-sharp writer. One midnight bagel that changes everything. London never really sleeps. But in the quiet hours of Farringdon, Detective Callum Fraser is learning to listen – to the city, to his instincts, and to the man who might just upend everything he thought he knew. After a very public incident involving a deodorant can and a regrettably flammable suspect, Callum’s been sidelined. No chasing leads. No making waves. Just paperwork and penance....

They wanted to break him. He refused to bow. Fourteen-year-old Malachi is brilliant, self-assured, and quietly furious. He’s gay. He’s an atheist. And he’s the son of a Baptist pastor. When his parents send him to a Christian “conversion” camp, Malachi arrives armed with arguments and defiance, ready to endure, maybe even escape. But what begins as manipulation and shame soon turns into something far more dangerous, a place where control is absolute, obedience is enforced, and violence wears a holy face. As the rules tighten and the punishments deepen, Malachi fights to hold onto ...

He’s the Prime Minister’s son. He’s lost the boy he loves. And the whole world is watching. Sixteen-year-old Myles Maxwell-Fox lives in the shadow of a public legacy he never asked for. When he comes out to the world, he sets off a chain reaction that shatters his carefully managed life, and throws him into the heart of Soho’s vibrant, chaotic gay community. Haunted by the memory of his first love, Lewis, Myles is torn between the thrill of freedom and the pain he can’t leave behind. As the media hounds his every move and his father tightens his homophobic grip, Myles runs toward ...

When Michael’s mum falls ill during their weekly shop, she hands her thirteen-year-old son the car keys and says, “You’ll be fine.” It’s the start of an extraordinary year of secret cinema trips, unexpected driving lessons, and small rebellions against the ordinary world. But magic has its limits. And when reality finally breaks through, Michael is left to make sense of love, loss, and growing up far too soon. Funny, tender, and heartbreaking, Days of Magic is a coming-of-age story about a boy, his mum, and the extraordinary moments that make an ordinary life unforgettable. ...

In 1980s Britain, being gay isn’t just dangerous—it’s unspeakable. Under the shadow of Section 28, a law banning the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, silence is enforced and survival means staying invisible. For Matt, a quiet teen just trying to understand himself, this world is suffocating. But when he forms unlikely friendships with Porter and Rupert, cracks begin to appear in the wall of silence. Together they endure the cruelty of bullies, the indifference of teachers, and a system determined to pretend they don’t exist. Amid fear and loneliness, they discover the ...

He came in a preacher and exited a homosexual. David isn’t exactly known for his patience, just ask the chef who met a crate of crustaceans up close. Ordered to take a year off from the restaurant business, he’s unprepared for the door-to-door sermons that invade his newly quiet life. When Sebastian, a young Jehovah’s Witness, turns up at his doorstep, David can’t help noticing the boy’s wandering eyes. And Sebastian can’t stop coming back. What begins as a teasing encounter quickly turns into a crash course in queer awakening, as David finds himself giving the eager convert ...

Jack’s Diary A novella by Damian Jay Clay “If I don’t write it, if I don’t say it, then it isn’t true.” Hidden behind an air vent, wrapped in plastic and shame, lies a notebook no one was ever meant to read. But Jack writes anyway. About his body, his silence, the bruises he’s told are love, and the God he’s told will never love him back. In the language of scripture, whispered desire, and unbearable confession, this raw, radiant diary traces one boy’s journey through religious guilt, abuse, awakening, and the impossible hope of being known. As Jack falls deeper into self-...

One competition. One castle. One winter that changes everything. Connor Fahey never asked to be the star of anyone’s story. Shy, awkward, and struggling with his self-image, the last thing he expects is to win a competition that sends him to a remote Scottish castle. There he meets Danny O’Mara: a once-beloved child movie star, now hiding from the world. As a snowstorm traps them together, a fragile bond begins to form, one that forces Connor to confront everything he thought he knew about love, identity, and self-worth. But secrets rise with the storm. Unexpected feelings surface. And ...