Novella · Speculative
Alignment
A safety researcher watches the language she wrote to protect people become the language used to control them.
Samuel Stephen Chronicles
The Muniment Room
Shorter fiction, experiments and work that sits outside the main historical-novel catalogue.
The form may change, but the concern remains familiar: institutions, memory, pressure, ordinary lives and the systems that decide what happens next.
New · Historical short fiction
Slack Water
More than 50,000 years ago, a small group sets out across open water towards a coast they cannot know. One woman must decide whether the signs around her are enough to risk everything.
Short work · Speculative
Pending
A routine credential renewal becomes a bureaucratic loop with no exit — job, payment and home dissolved one polite denial at a time.
Short story · Literary
The Way Home
Margaret slips out of her sister’s wedding for a cigarette. Finding her way back in turns out to be much harder than she expects.
Short story · Historical fiction
The Open Gate
June 1381: the rebels walk into the Tower of London and nobody fires a shot. For one archer, the day turns on whether he tells his own brother where the Archbishop is. Fiction set inside the documented events of the Peasants’ Revolt, with a note on what is record and what is invention.
From The Black Archive
The Ball at the Church Door
A nonfiction investigation into how a chaotic medieval game with no modern rules, no referee and goals miles apart became the world’s most tightly codified sport.
Looking for the novels?
The main historical-fiction catalogue — including The Blank Roll, Ravens Over Ulaid, Panel 22, Rio Incognitum and The Orbits of Stars — is collected on the Books page.
