Writing where memory, place, and truth intersect.

Anthony Stovold writes atmospheric political and historical fiction exploring memory, power, inheritance, and the hidden structures that survive beneath ordinary life.

Set between Britain and the Philippines, his novels examine how war, corruption, family history, and institutional secrecy continue shaping later generations long after official history has moved on.

His work combines literary realism with slow-burning political suspense, often focusing on overlooked details, quiet discoveries, and the fragile boundary between personal memory and historical truth.

Some of his books are deeply personal. Others unfold across generations and continents. All of them are concerned with what we carry, what we leave behind, and what it means, at last, to come home to ourselves.

Featured books

The Road to Myself
A candid and reflective memoir of desire, family, loss, and late-found peace.

The Ramos Files
A richly layered literary novel of family inheritance, secrecy, and buried truths across generations and continents.

The Third Ledger
The Third Ledger is a slow-burning political thriller set in the modern Philippines, where old secrets survive through silence, inheritance, and power.

The Dry Well
When retired Englishman Peter Rawlins agrees to help an old acquaintance investigate a forgotten wartime file, he expects little more than stories about Yamashita gold and Japanese occupation myths buried deep in the hills of Bohol,in the Philippines. Instead, he uncovers something far more dangerous.