Standalone
Coleshanger
“If it can be said a village has a life, then this is a biography.” Norman Williams (1908-1969).
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“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea.”
Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical and charming recount of English village life in the early part of the last century, a tale waiting seventy years to be heard, but still very much the story of us today.
“Finally, a book worth reading because Thomas didn't write it.” - Malcolm Shrot-Faith, The Guardian.
“I edited it though, and that took a lot of work. I used a dictionary and everything." - Thomas Corfield, quite hurt.
Viscera
​Medicine should heal, not tear people apart.
Cantar Ethanual Holt, professor of anatomy at a prestigious medical school, is fighting to reclaim a lost surgical career. But when his wife’s cancer returns, his hopes are shattered. At the same time, Richmond Merchison-Banks, an arrogant but brilliant medical student, is humiliated into repeating a year after Cantar is forced to fail him. When both men become infatuated with second year medical student, Livia Bravanovski, they’re thrown into a vicious struggle of pride, jealousy and revenge. But when jealousy becomes disease, only surgery holds the cure.
“A poor attempt at drama, and a tedious, self-indulgent trawl through drivel, rife with excessive exposition and appalling use of apostrophes.” - Malcolm Shrot-Faith, The Guardian.
“Such comments do you no credit, Malcolm. And neither do those trousers.” – Thomas Corfield, unperturbed.
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Wasted
In the squalor of Festering Cesspit, Rufus Amberdust is a priest simply because he can read. When a seat opens in Australia’s most derelict electorate, a corrupt Party Secretary selects Rufus as a puppet candidate, hand-picked because his application was scrawled on a cornflakes packet in blood and faeces.
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But Rufus’s upbringing as a societal outcast affords him a diplomatic immunity to political assassination. Backed by an ex-pornstar’s fortune and billion-dollar weather tech, Rufus engineers a solution to the climate crisis so extraordinary that global clamour for involvement bypasses all geopolitical barriers. His plan may well miraculously address every man-made threat to humanity, but it also reveals a catastrophic oversight: one that risks saving the planet at the cost of the entire human race.
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Wasted is a darkly satirical saga where the only man with integrity might just be the one who ends the world.
Teabusk
When a young, impressionable physics student meets an enigmatic girl who rarely speaks, he realises that language often confuses those using it.
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Her enigma, although puzzling, is also familiar. Through it, he begins to understand things in a way he never imagined. Moreover, he discovers that his introversion is not so much a flaw, but essential to understanding everything, including his place in it.
Stillness exists for a reason. Occasionally, someone finds it.
“Generally, pretention has the redeeming quality of arrogance. And even arrogance has the redeeming quality of delusion. This, however, has no redeeming qualities, whatsoever.” – Stephanie Mills, Freelance Editor.
“Yet another of Thomas’ attempts at being something he’s not: a writer. It's so badly written that I suspect even the title is a typo.” – Malcolm Shrot-Faith, The Guardian.
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Beyond Aesop - A Guide To Writing New Fable Fiction
This guide serves as the definitive manual for writers seeking to master New Fable, an emerging speculative fiction genre that reimagines traditional storytelling to address contemporary topics.
Spearheaded by Thomas Corfield, the book details the essential pillar of hyper-anthropomorphism, where stories feature only animal characters in societies entirely devoid of humans.
Writers are instructed in polyauthorism, an innovative approach requiring the creation of supplementary digital media, such as music and art, to enhance reader immersion and remain relevant in a digital age. The text provides technical strategies for employing Allégorie Inanimée (anthropomorphising emotions and inanimate objects) and Agona (utilising plural protagonists to provide hierarchical complexity). By exploring the messagic contradiction of hiding morals within absurdism, this guide helps authors create sophisticated, multi-layered narratives for a modern audience.
Its release will include a discounted copy of Novelos, the long-form novel writing software.