A life lived in pursuit of connection, from post-war England to the quiet shade of a mango tree in the Philippines.
Born in 1947 beside the River Thames, I grew up in a Britain shaped by ration books, rigid schools, and silence.
His work explores longing, identity, inheritance, love, loss, and the hidden currents that shape a life over time. Whether writing memoir or literary fiction, he is drawn to stories in which the past continues to live within the present, and in which people are forced to reckon with what they remember, what they conceal, and what they carry forward
His books move between England and the Philippines, and sometimes further afield, but they are united by the same concerns: belonging, emotional truth, buried histories, and the search for home.
The Road to Myself is his memoir, tracing a life through childhood, boarding school, desire, family, disappointment, renewal, and late-found peace. The Ramos Files is a work of literary fiction told across three connected stories of family inheritance, secrecy, memory, and buried truth.
Anthony Stovold writes not for sensation, but for depth: stories of patience, tenderness, endurance, and the truths that time does not erase.
Author note
I came to writing later in life, after many years of living first and understanding afterwards. The books grew from memory, reflection, and the need to make sense of, not only my own, but the lives, places, and histories that shaped me.