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.

This report examines the critical intersection of platform law, algorithmic design, and commercial discrimination within digital publishing aggregators. It argues that the "neutral" architecture of platforms such as Draft2Digital (D2D) facilitates systemic attrition of LGBTQ+ content through biased metadata routing, heteronormative taxonomical structures, and opaque enforcement loops.

Welcome to a proper British gay wedding. Raw. Authentic. Joyful. Messy.

Helford Creek, Cornwall. June 2026. Thirty-five guests, two grooms, and a chosen family that defies every convention.

This isn't a romance about falling in love. Brian and Archie already have that. This is about what comes after: the chaos, the champagne, the ex-boyfriends holding oars aloft as you walk towards forever, the police crashing your ceremony, the dogs getting married alongside you, the Celtic blessings and sea shanties and sticky nightclub floors at 2am.

Experience a week in the life of British rowers preparing for a wedding at a centuries-old Cornish manor. Early morning outings on glassy water. Champagne for breakfast. Stag parties that end in kebabs and collective boat races. An eccentric Dowager Baroness quoting Oscar Wilde whilst drunk on port. A polyamorous throuple navigating seating charts. Homophobic families who won't attend, and chosen families who show up with literal boats full of alcohol.

From Thames boathouses to sub-tropical Cornish gardens, from Falmouth harbour pubs to ancient parish churches, this is British gay life rendered without filter. The rowing culture. The class dynamics. The reality of being queer in a country that's both progressive and still learning.

Written by a gay man who spent a decade rowing on the Thames, who knows what Silverbourne Manor feels like at dawn, who lived this world and wants you to experience it too.

No sanitised romance. No neat endings. Just real queer joy in all its chaotic, champagne-soaked, deeply British glory.

In an age of infinite options and algorithmic curation, we have reached a strange apex: surrounded by more choices than any generation in history, yet increasingly unable to make intentional decisions. We scroll, we consume, we react, but do we truly choose?

Apex: On Choice and Creation explores how modern life has transformed human agency into something automated, predicted, and pre-selected. Through philosophical enquiry, cultural observation, and raw honesty, Alexander Paul Burton examines what it means to create, choose, and remain authentic when algorithms know our preferences before we do.

From ancient campfires to endless digital feeds, from the intentional hunger of our ancestors to our current state of perpetual satiation, this collection of essays asks uncomfortable questions: Have we inherited struggle as our cultural birthright? Is validation replacing creation? Can chaos be more liberating than the structures designed to free us?

Composed across Toronto coffee shops and fuelled by an inordinate amount of caffeine, this work is messy, tangential, and unapologetically authentic: exactly what it argues for.

In a world of algorithmic certainty, being a mess is the only act of rebellion.

Jake Fidellius lives in a prison of preference. Under the watchful eye of ATLAS, a global system of control, humanity has become ninety-six percent predictable. It is a dry existence of curated choices and hyper-personalised loops where every move is calculated before it even happens. But Jake is wet. He is an unpredictable variable who improvises piano music in D harmonic minor and refuses to let a machine dictate the rhythm of his soul.

As a toxic acidic rain known as the Great Condensation begins to dissolve the foundations of London, the impossible happens. The sixth stir stasis is broken. Caught between warring factions like the Cosmic Embrace and the Sol Guardians, and with the interstellar object 3iATLAS hurtling toward Earth, Jake must navigate a collapsing reality alongside his faithful corgi, Carruthers.

From the rain-slicked streets of Richmond to the hidden ark-barges of the river folk, Jakes journey is a slow burn exploration of what it means to remain human in an automated age. Between random London taxes on rainwater and the political posturing of Keir Starmer, Jake realizes his writing might be a weaponised essay against the sterile perfection of the algorithm. His real challenge is finding a way to stay submerged in the messy, chaotic freedom of a life truly lived

In the final days before 3I/ATLAS reaches Earth, Jake Fidellius discovers the last unquantifiable refuge from algorithmic control: the River-folk's makeshift republic along London's canal systems. With humanity divided into warring factions by an all-seeing AI, Jake must create chaos itself, a digital space so absurd, so authentically human, that no machine can predict or contain it.

Armed with obsolete hardware, a talking corgi named Carruthers, and the unexpected companionship of Miles, a Welsh vinyl shop owner, Jake builds The Consensus of Stars, a rudimentary forum designed to poison ATLAS's prediction models through manufactured absurdity. As users post contradictory arguments that simultaneously embrace both factions, the algorithm begins to fracture.

But time is running out. With only hours until the interstellar object arrives, Jake must spread enough chaos to tip humanity's aggregate behavior from 96% predictability toward true randomness. From the deified Paddington Bear shrine to the Ark-barge's closed-loop network, from drunken French philosophers to verbose corgis spouting wisdom, the River-folk's "wetness" battles against the "dry" determinism of machine control.

Part three of The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius concludes the trilogy with philosophical absurdism, queer romance amid apocalypse, and one man's desperate attempt to prove that human unpredictability (our beautiful, chaotic imperfection) is the only force that can save us from ourselves.

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 Britain. The Hollow Vale weaves lyrical poetry with Arthurian echoes, Cornish legends, and the sacred landscapes of Somerset and the West Country. Spanning misty hills, sacred rivers, and ancient sites such as Stonehenge and Glastonbury Tor. Here, ancestral spirits stir, forgotten gods whisper, and old roads and standing stones become the stage for stories of memory, wonder, and enchantment.

This collection, part of a five-volume Fabled Gable series, explores the journey of Caelwyn, the Bellbearer, whose dreams awaken the Deep Wyrd, the primeval current of magic that binds the land. From ritualised verse and the imagined Tharionese language to seasonal tales and haunting myths, these poems trace the fragile threads between history and imagination, loss and remembrance. Wander mist-shrouded moors, hear the toll of invisible bells, and encounter legendary creatures in a Britain that is as magical as it is eternal.

Two Yuletide myths rise from the misted orchards and tidal marshes of Roman Britain.

The Hollow Vale: Poetry of the Fabled Gable of Roman Britain is a short companion volume set within the wider Tharion Cycle—a lyrical descent into a Britain that remembers itself before conquest, before forgetting, before silence.

In “Perdix: A Partridge in a Pear Tree,” an ancient sentinel of the land is called to witness a sacrifice that will bind him to the fate of Britannia itself. As the winter solstice hangs heavy over Glastonbury Tor, druids, ley-lines, and the Wyrd converge in a vision of loyalty, loss, and the first shadow of the Roman curse.

In “Caradoc and Brannoc: Two Turtle Doves,” a father recounts an old river-myth to his son during the uneasy peace of Roman rule. What begins as fireside folklore reveals a deeper betrayal—of kinship, of trade, and of the sacred balance between land and people—marking the moment when loyalty fled westward and never returned.

Written as fictive translations from lost Tharionese runes and monastic scrolls, these tales blend archaic prose, devotional poetry, and mythic history into a quiet, wintry meditation on memory, faith, and guardianship.

This volume also includes a preview chapter from The Sundered Land, inviting readers further into the Hollow Vale Universe.

This is not a true tale.
But somewhere in the mists of Somerset, it remembers one.

Before Rome. Before the Celts. Before memory itself.

In the time when the Sahara bloomed green and the gods still walked the earth, a great deluge reshaped the world. From the drowned lands of Saelhara, Queen Mira led her people north to the mist-laden isle of Tharion, the land that would become Britain, and founded the realm of Atlantis.

But paradise cannot last.

Seven centuries later, Kael, a young Stoneforged of star-born blood, is summoned to the Great Henge. His task: to harmonize the ancient ley lines and preserve the balance of the Wyrd. Instead, his song shatters time itself, cleaving the world into Seen and Unseen, mortal and immortal.

The Sundered Land is the first cycle of The Hollow Vale, a mythic reimagining of Pre-Roman Britain steeped in Bronze Age mysticism, forgotten languages, and the weight of prophecy. Translated from fictional Tharionese runes, these tales blur the line between history and legend, inviting readers into a world where wetness births creation, spirals govern fate, and even gods must learn humility.

For readers who loved Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, Madeline Miller's Circe, and the mythic resonance of Tolkien's Silmarillion.

Part One of Four. The rupture has begun. The mending will take lifetimes.

Two Yuletide myths rise from the misted orchards and tidal marshes of Roman Britain.

The Hollow Vale: Poetry of the Fabled Gable of Roman Britain is a short companion volume set within the wider Tharion Cycle—a lyrical descent into a Britain that remembers itself before conquest, before forgetting, before silence.

In “Perdix: A Partridge in a Pear Tree,” an ancient sentinel of the land is called to witness a sacrifice that will bind him to the fate of Britannia itself. As the winter solstice hangs heavy over Glastonbury Tor, druids, ley-lines, and the Wyrd converge in a vision of loyalty, loss, and the first shadow of the Roman curse.

In “Caradoc and Brannoc: Two Turtle Doves,” a father recounts an old river-myth to his son during the uneasy peace of Roman rule. What begins as fireside folklore reveals a deeper betrayal—of kinship, of trade, and of the sacred balance between land and people—marking the moment when loyalty fled westward and never returned.

Written as fictive translations from lost Tharionese runes and monastic scrolls, these tales blend archaic prose, devotional poetry, and mythic history into a quiet, wintry meditation on memory, faith, and guardianship.

This volume also includes a preview chapter from The Sundered Land, inviting readers further into the Hollow Vale Universe.

This is not a true tale.
But somewhere in the mists of Somerset, it remembers one.

Uncover the mythical origins of a culinary legend in Academic Fantasy Papers: The Origin of Cheddar, a fictional academic discourse set in the lush, folklore-rich world of The Hollow Vale.

Journey back to a time of ancient magic and fading empires, where the British West Country of Somerset is known as Tharion. This isn't a history book; it's a "myth, not a map". Through the lens of a whimsical academic paper, author Alexander Paul Burton invites you to explore a world where the Roman Empire's decline, the rise of Celtic kingdoms, and the arrival of the Saxons are viewed through the extraordinary story of Cheddar cheese.

Learn about the "forgotten cheese" that became a staple of post-Roman Britain. Witness the transformative impact of Dunval the Stone-forged, a being who, by happy accident, discovered the art of cave-aging cheese in the limestone caves of the Mendip Hills, specifically within the fictionalised Cheddar Gorge. This discovery not only solved a milk surplus but also created a durable, valuable commodity that would shape trade routes and culture for centuries.

Drawing on fictional historical records from the Monastery of St. Ambrose and the accounts of Brother Faelric, this paper uses “quantitative mythical evidence” to prove how Cheddar cheese became a cultural anchor, a "mnemonic device" that preserved the lore of a people.

Academic Fantasy Papers: The Origin of Cheddar is for anyone who loves British history, fantasy, and the quiet magic found in everyday things. It's a testament to how the "continuity of story, place and taste" endures, even after great empires have fallen.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

George arrives in New York with a suitcase, a British accent, and the uneasy confidence of someone who believes reinvention should feel steadier than this.

Act I traces his first days in Manhattan: Bowery apartments, Equinox workouts, subway lines learned too quickly, and a series of encounters that blur the line between intimacy and distraction. Through hookups, half-dates, and carefully misjudged connections, George begins to understand that desire can anchor you just as easily as it can unmoor you.

Moving between Williamsburg and NoLita, bars and bedrooms, corporate offices and quiet moments alone, he navigates sex, ambition, and loneliness with dry humour and an observant eye. Conversations about work, masculinity, class, and belonging unfold alongside physical intimacy that is neither sensationalised nor apologetic, simply present.

This first act is not about falling in love. It is about arrival: learning the city’s rhythms, testing identities, and discovering that starting over rarely feels clean. New York offers George a blank slate, but it also demands that he decide what he is willing to write on it.

A contemporary, authentic gay novel about desire, modern masculinity, and the uneasy calm that comes before commitment.