STANDALONE NOVELS & NOVELLAS
A whole world in a single book.
A submerged library, a shop full of bottled memories, a space station’s last tree and a London night that sends one man far beyond his own lifetime. These novels and novellas each tell a complete, independent story.
Choose gentle magic, quiet science fiction or a journey into something darker.
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There is no reading order and no earlier book to catch up on. Choose the story that catches your interest; each book page has a description, an opening extract and buying links.
Undersea fantasy · Conspiracy
The Archivist of the Abyss
The records are incomplete. His skin knows what is missing.
Barnaby, a cephalopod archivist in the Great Submerged Library, begins producing maps beneath his skin—routes no official record admits exist. A visiting cartographer has found evidence of the same erasure. Together they investigate a buried conspiracy whose exposure could bring justice to the forgotten and threaten a peace the world has trusted for fifty years.
Cosy fantasy · Slow-burn romance
The Botany of Broken Things
She plans to sell the shop. Its memories have other ideas.
Mari Quay arrives in the canal city of Lume to sell her late aunt’s bottle shop. Inside, memories are cracking in their glass, and a living meadow in an impossible bottle is fading. Saving it means working with Cael, the taciturn glasswright across the alley, while mounting debts and winter frost threaten the home Mari never intended to keep.
Cosy science fiction · Belonging
The Last Tree on Habitat Seven
Her first assignment is a tree nobody knows how to help.
Junior technician Nia Bell is given the last surviving tree from a lost colony, tucked away in a neglected part of Habitat Seven. Its leaves begin changing colour in response to sounds, visitors and small acts of care. When a preservation centre offers to move it, Nia must discover what the tree needs—and whether the station has become its home.
Dark science fiction · Time-travel novella
If You See the Morning
Every time the light finds him, more of his life is gone.
Helping a dying stranger leaves Leo Vance with a grey band he cannot remove. Light sends him forward through time: first minutes, then weeks, then years. As his family grows older without him and London becomes unrecognisable, Leo is carried into stranger futures, trying to hold on to the people and memories each new jump leaves behind.