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Young Readers

The Fir Tree

A little fir at the forest edge wants nothing but to be tall - and every wish it is granted arrives too late to be enjoyed.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Sci-Fi & Gaming

The First Men in the Moon

A failed businessman rents a lonely bungalow on the Kent marshes to write a play.

Complete · 68 chapters · Mature

Mystery

The First Violin

On a mild April afternoon, May Wedderburn stayed in the vicarage drawing room after her father left by the garden gate for a funeral.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Sci-Fi & Gaming

The Fixed Period

The new college shone above the harbour, complete except for the citizen it had been designed to receive.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands

On a gusty November evening, the red light beyond Ramsgate shone over the Goodwin Sands and the North Sea.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Comedy

The Flying Inn

You are Joan Brett, waiting at the edge of the sea for word of Captain Patrick Dalroy, missing since a war on a small Mediterranean island.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Sci-Fi & Gaming

The Food of the Gods

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Fortunes of Nigel

King James wore both crowns, but in London the old division between English and Scots survived in court complaint, street joke, and sudden brawl.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Frontier Fort

A supply train crosses the prairie bound for Edmonton, while Hector Mackintosh longs to reach his father's isolated post at Fort Duncan.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Frozen Pirate

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Fruit of the Tree

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Fugitives

You were Doctor Mark Breezy, running single file through dense forest with the sailor Hockins and James Ginger, called Ebony.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Social Protest

The Garies and Their Friends

You are Emily Garie, hosting George Winston, once enslaved, back from a North where strangers took him for white until he named where he came from.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Literary Drama

The Gates Ajar

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Getting of Wisdom

You are Laura Rambotham, twelve, finishing a fairy tale for the younger children in the grass on your last day at home.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Ghost Kings

You are Rachel Dove, fifteen, gathering food on a river island as drought pushes your missionary family deeper into Pondoland.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Gothic

The Ghost Pirates

You are Jessop, signing aboard the Mortzestus despite dockside talk that she lost half her crew last voyage, none returning for their gear.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Giant of the North

Rumours from southern travellers had brought you, Chingatok, across water and ice to the coast of Greenland.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Gilded Age

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Gilpins and Their Fortunes

Arthur Gilpin and Mark Withers left Wallington School arm in arm, both old enough to face work and still young enough to argue about it.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Girl and Her Fortune

School ended with eighteen-year-old Florence and nineteen-year-old Brenda believing a comfortable independent future already funded.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Girl at Cobhurst

In a New York boarding-house, you pressed slippers into one shared trunk for the journey to the estate called Cobhurst.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Adventure

The Girls of St. Wode's

You rode home from St Wode's beside your twin Marjorie and cousin Letitia, all three newly eighteen.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Glimpses of the Moon

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature