Welcome to Middle Itchenstoke. A picture-perfect English village where the hedges are neatly trimmed, the roses bloom, the church bells ring and everyone is, naturally, perfectly respectable. Or so they'd have you believe.

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Volume 1 of The Middle Itchenstoke Series  - Perfectly Respectable People - is now on sale and we are now looking for submissions to volumes 2, 3 and 4, all for publication in 2027.   If you have already contributed a story to the first volume you are welcome to continue your character's journey or to create new characters. 

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New authors are welcome too!

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For details of each book, please scroll...

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Volume 1: Perfectly Respectable People

On Sale Now

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Behind the net curtains and well-tended gardens, the villagers are keeping secrets, nursing grudges, falling in love, behaving badly and occasionally getting themselves into the sort of trouble that really ought to be kept out of the parish newsletter. This is a collection of funny, touching and sometimes surprisingly dark stories about village life, and the extraordinary things ordinary people get up to when they think nobody is looking. After all, in Middle Itchenstoke, appearances matter, and everyone has a reputation to maintain.

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Volume 2: Auction of Promises

(Due for release in Spring 2027)

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A home-cooked dinner. A weekend away. A day’s gardening. 
A private lesson. A favour to be called in later. Everyone has something to offer, and it’s all for a great cause. But this is Middle Itchenstoke, and nothing is ever straightforward…
Submit a story >>

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Volume 3: Festival Folk

(Due for release in Summer 2027)

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For ten glorious summer days, Middle Itchenstoke becomes home to The Longest Weekend – the UK’s most famous folk festival. 
A colourful, family-friendly riot of music, craft, food, friendship and an escape from modern-day pressures. Some lives will collide. Some secrets will emerge. Some people will fall in love, fall out – or simply fall over. Welcome back to Middle Itchenstoke. It’s going to be a long weekend.

Submit a Story >>

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Volume 4: The Bonfire Committee 
(due for release Autumn 2027)

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Autumn has arrived in Middle Itchenstoke. The leaves are turning, the nights are drawing in and the village calendar is filling up. There’s the harvest festival to organise, produce to gather, traditions to uphold and, looming over everything, the annual Bonfire Night celebrations, which means committees, disagreements, old rivalries and an alarming number of people with very firm opinions about fireworks. Join the folk of Middle Itchenstoke as autumn reaches its fiery conclusion…
 

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