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My books are full of humour and heart, and all feature strong LGTBQIA+ characters with gay male leads. I write across genres: let’s try to find a book for you! (Or: read more about me; see all books.)
This page has some criteria you might be interested in and the matching books or relevant book data, plus some useful notes. Click or tap on a book cover to learn more.
Gay male lead
The lead is never the only LGBTQIA+ character. LGBTQIA+ characters are usually male-presenting.
Pod of Capricorn series
#1
Between Two Worlds is book 1 of the Pod of Capricorn series; book 2 is out in 2027.
St Paul’s College stories
1972 #2
2012 #1
These are standalone stories.
The Pink and the Grey was written first and the story takes place in 2012.
The Pauline Conversion was written second and the story takes place in 1972.
Audiobook available
See the book page for audiobook links.
Narrative voice
1st pres
1st past
1st past
1st past
1st past
Dual
1st past
1st past
3rd pres
1st pres = first person, present tense
1st past = first person, past tense
3rd pres = third person, present tense
The Pink and the Grey has two narrators, alternating chapters.
Till Undeath Do Us Part alternates scenes between first-person past and third-person present.
Length
86K
350pp
93K
380pp
10h46m
98K
370pp
112K
380pp
97K
318pp
83K
275pp
24K
78pp
K = thousand words
pp = pages in the paperback edition
Page counts don’t scale with word counts across all books due to chapter length and book design differences.
Content notes
(“trigger warnings”)
Each book includes spoiler-free notes at the start. The book page here (click or tap on the book cover) has more details behind a spoiler warning.
Young Adult/coming-of-age stories
Science fiction
Satire
Gothic horror
Humour
Typical British humour.
Disunited and Till Undeath Do Us Part are darker.
Between Two Worlds contains humour but isn’t primarily humorous.
Romance-ish
Not strictly Romance genre, but romance plays a part.
All closed-door, low spice.
Thriller
Farce
Modern historical setting
1972
Future/space/off-Earth setting
Between Two Worlds is set in the deep future.
Contemporary setting
2024-5
2016
2013
2012
2012
May include references to contemporary events, people and places.
School setting
Unstable Orbits is set in and around a UK school. The main characters are 17-19 years old.
University setting
The Pauline Conversion and The Pink and the Grey: the fictional St Paul’s College, Cambridge. The main characters are not students.
Till Undeath Do Us Part: King’s College, Cambridge. The main characters are students.
Cambridge setting
The Pauline Conversion and The Pink and the Grey: the fictional St Paul’s College.
Till Undeath Do Us Part: King’s College.
A Room Full of Elephants: civilian/business Cambridge.
Fictional location
Between Two Worlds: a deep-space colony wheel called Capricorn.
Unstable Orbits: Ebeham, placed near Swindon, UK.
Disunited: an unnamed UK city.
Mental health focus
Trans representation
1972 setting: set expectations accordingly.
Enby representation
A main character in Between Two Worlds is non-binary.
Disability representation
In A Room Full of Elephants, a main character is missing parts of both legs after an accident that occurs before the story starts.
Sport
Disunited follows a footballer, and contains football content. Accessible for non-fans.
Zombies
Till Undeath Do Us Part contains deaths.
Animals
A Room Full of Elephants features elephants and a cat.
“Spice”
LOW
LOW
LOW
LOW
LOW
LOW
LOW
No explicit sexual content: all off-page.
Many sexual references.
Between Two Worlds and Unstable Orbits contain typical teenage talk and activities.
Anthony Camber 