George Casterbridge de Clare has a passport that says American, an accent that says British aristocrat, and no real idea where he belongs.

Mid-twenties and half-running from a family estate in Oxfordshire, George has landed in New York with a food-rescue startup, an overdrawn account, and a genius for turning every friendship into a near-romance. There is Ethan, his rowing partner from Florida, all easy warmth and unspoken want. There is Jon, his best friend, who looks after him better than he looks after himself. And there is the stubborn fact that George has never felt at home anywhere: not in the Singapore his nanny raised him in, not in the Oxfordshire house he was sent back to, not in any of the cities he has tried on since.

When a wedding calls him across the Atlantic, the tour begins. Manhattan to a Cornish clifftop, a grand old house full of ghosts, and finally Paris, where a memorial he has spent years refusing to attend is waiting for him. Somewhere between the ferries and the Eurostar, the champagne and the grief, George has to decide whether belonging is a place he can reach or a person he can let in.

Witty, sensual and quietly heartbroken, The Gay After is literary gay expat fiction about class, desire, food, and the strange comfort of never quite arriving. Written by an actual gay author, raw and unapologetic, it gathers Acts IV, V and VI of The George Files into one volume.

For readers of André Aciman and Alan Hollinghurst who like their romance clever, their heroes maddening, and their endings earned.

Book two of The George Files (Acts IV, V and VI)

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A commitment to Human Authorship: the illustrations are hand-drawn in coloured pencil and Japanese sumi ink, and the writing is entirely human, with no generative tools involved at any stage. All of my recent titles are published with documented provenance, keystroke records among it, giving each book a verifiable authorship history at a moment when that has become worth stating plainly.

Between the marble halls of Le Meurice and the quiet shadows of the American Cathedral, George de Clare is running out of ways to evade his past.

Travelling from London to Paris alongside his impeccably refined friend Jon, George is ostensibly in the City of Light to inspect the Musée Rodin for the international launch of Second Course, his food insecurity startup. Yet beneath the whirlwind of Champagne toasts, high fashion shoots, and luxury boutique strolls, George remains haunted by unresolved grief and the memory of Rupert, his former lover whose life ended far too soon in Le Pigalle.

As old wounds resurface, George finds himself caught in an emotional tangle. In Manhattan, his rowing partner and co-founder Ethan waits with an offer of something real. In Paris, his sharp-witted Canadian friend Matt challenges his guarded aristocratic charm, while Jon offers an unwavering anchor amidst the chaotic backdrop of expat life.

Rich with art, luxury, and raw vulnerability, The George Files: Paris is an authentic literary romance about class, identity, and the courage required to stop running from love.

ISBN: 9798194099924

Ancient British Folklore Reimagined in Verse

Step into the world of the Fabled Gable, where Roman Britain's waning empire collides with myth, magic, and the timeless folklore of the West Country. The Hollow Vale weaves lyrical poetry with Arthurian echoes, Cornish legends, and the sacred landscapes of Somerset, from Glastonbury Tor and Bodmin Moor to the fossil shores of Kilve and the standing stones of Stanton Drew.

Meet the Wenderbeast, a scholarly hog who fled the burning library of Avalon with what scrolls he could carry. Follow Father Thorn, a farm-hand who walked to Bath with an axe to free a goddess from her Roman renaming. Hear Caradoc and Dunval sing the earth itself into a hill to swallow a Roman legion whole. Then settle into the whimsical bed-time poems: ghosts who iron your sheets, faeries whose lanterns are warm to look at and cold to touch, and a crooked man who tells your future but gets the directions wrong half the time.

This collection, part of a five-volume Fabled Gable series, includes three full verse-cycles, seasonal poetry, a mock-academic paper on the mythological origins of Cheddar Cheese, a Tharionese language glossary, an expanded gazetteer, and a prose fable about quantum ethics told through competitive muffin-baking. Every word and illustration is human-made, verified by keystroke-level auditing, and deposited with national libraries.

Poetry, myth, cheese, and a very opinionated hog. Welcome to Somerset.

"In Switzerland, rowing is perfect arithmetic. In England, it can be a beautifully disorganized mess."

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Konrad is a long way from Zurich. A former competitive sculler forced onto the bank by a career-ending injury, he now spends his early mornings coaching an amateur crew on the unpredictable, industrial waters of East London. He is disciplined, precise, and hopelessly, quietly captivated by his athletes.

Set against the sweltering, sun-baked backdrop of Peterborough Regatta, this story explores the thin, razor-sharp line between professional decorum and forbidden desire.

Surrounded by a sea of chaotic, shirtless British banter culture, Konrad navigates the excruciating mental tightrope of same-sex attraction, strict Swiss boundaries, and a small, incestuous rowing circuit where past hookups and sudden revelations wait at every landing pontoon.

Atmospheric, raw, and fiercely observant, this queer slice-of-life short story captures the vulnerability of an expat searching for home, connection, and a clean finish in a world that refuses to play by the rules.

Silverbourne: Between London and Toronto is a quiet, intimate, and authentic gay romance about distance, comparison, and the deliberate search for intentionality in a gay expat's life.

When Matt returns to Toronto for a short winter visit, he expects the easy familiarity of family routines with his brother, old friendships, and the comfort of a city that once shaped him. What he doesn’t expect is how sharply the trip will force him to measure who he was against who he has become. The fragile dynamic shifts completely when Lukas, Matt’s camp, image-conscious, and beautifully chaotic ex-boyfriend, embarks on a dramatic, spreadsheet-mapped vacation of his own to London, crashing directly into the lives of Matt’s new partners, Freddy and Andy.

When Aly drove Finn's Audi into the swimming pool, it was only the beginning.

Finn de Clare is Oxford-educated, precise, and quietly devastated by the fact that the most chaotic person he has ever met is also the love of his life. Aly is quantum mechanics, Romano-British mythology, and a door ripped clean off its hinges at midnight in Fulham. He is also, somehow, brilliant.

Set across the sun-drenched banks of the Henley Royal Regatta, the moonlit river at Oxford, and the warm gin-soaked corner tables of a West London restaurant, Hard Henley is a gay British literary romance about what happens when the person who drives you absolutely insane turns out to have been quietly right about everything all along.

Witty, warm, explicit, and unexpectedly moving, Hard Henley follows Finn and Aly through one chaotic, champagne-soaked summer — complete with a DDR lamp that can't be plugged in, a corgi called Mr Wigglesworth, a Brazilian waiter in Tom Ford underwear, and twelve thousand pounds in royalties Aly completely forgot he had.

Philip Larkin never wrote about gay rowers. He probably should have.

Part of the Silverbourne series. Standalone read.

What happens when two gay men try to have a quiet weekend away and fail spectacularly?

Finn and Aly escape to a luxury Cotswolds spa for the New Year with one rule: no complications. Within hours, their borrowed Corgi, Braveheart, has staged a miniature protest, a stranger in a red Speedo has issued a reprimand at the pool, and two older men from Bristol have arrived for dinner with a very good bottle of wine and absolutely no intention of behaving themselves.

Set across a candlelit retreat, the elite rowing clubs of West London, and a fifteenth-century Oxfordshire manor house sitting on Roman foundations, Restraint follows four men across a series of weekends that none of them will quite be able to explain afterward.

Funny, frank, and written with the raw authenticity of a world most fiction only guesses at, this is gay literary fiction that explores the fine line between rivalry and desire. It is a story about the "almost"—which turns out to be considerably more interesting than the "did."

Revised Second Edition – Enhanced March 2026 with original hand-drawn illustrations. Previously published as: A Gay Romance in the Cotswolds under the pen-name Bradley Conrad.

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