Stories of family, mystery and hidden histories..

Anthony Stovold writes atmospheric literary fiction shaped by memory, inheritance, political silence, and the hidden structures that survive beneath ordinary life.

Set between Britain and the Philippines, his work explores the lingering shadows of war, family history, corruption, exile, and the fragile boundary between personal memory and official truth.

Some stories unfold quietly through forgotten records, old photographs, missing documents, and half-remembered conversations. Others move across generations and continents, tracing the consequences of decisions made long before the present day.

The Anthony Stovold Library brings these works together as a growing collection of novels, memoir, archive fragments, and historical reflections connected by recurring themes of loss, survival, belonging, and return.

Featured works

Early Days

A photographic journey through a vanished England of canals, classrooms, narrowboats, ration books, and post-war childhood summers beneath uncertain skies.

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The Road to Myself

A reflective memoir of desire, family, distance, loss, and the long journey toward self-understanding.

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Under the Mango Tree

An ordinary house beneath an old mango tree becomes the centre of a mystery stretching back generations.

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The Third Ledger

A slow-burning political thriller set in the modern Philippines, where old secrets survive through silence, power, and inheritance.

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The Dry Well

When retired Englishman Peter Rawlins agrees to help investigate a forgotten wartime file in the hills of Bohol, he uncovers something far more dangerous than myth.

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The Shade of the Mango Tree

What began beneath the old mango tree refuses to remain buried.

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The Second Dig

When a second excavation uncovers fresh evidence beneath the quiet fields of Bohol, Peter and those closest to him realise the mystery they believed solved has only grown more dangerous.