Stories of love, place,memory and transformation.
Explore the worlds of Andrew Cheffings — where local landscapes, queer romance, memory and spirituality meet.
Some stories are rooted in the places we cannot leave behind.
Following an unfortunate incident ninety years earlier, life at Green Twining Farm seems terminally blighted. But by the summer of 1985, Joe — the farmer's son — has secretly fallen in love with David, his handsome work friend at the town hall, and wonders if David feels the same about him.
The worlds of Andrew
Place
Local landscapes and local cultures, experienced through the marshland villages and lanes of Lincolnshire.
Queer Romance
Love, connection and identity — quietly discovered, sometimes hidden, always deeply felt.
Memory
The past, inherited stories and the emotional history that shapes a family and a place.
Queer Ecology
Nature, spirituality and interconnectedness — a landscape that holds and reflects its inhabitants.
Andrew Cheffings
Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ fiction. He was born on a small working farm on the Lincolnshire Marsh, a landscape that shapes nearly everything he writes.
His family heritage includes his grandfather's North Lincolnshire dialect stories passed down aurally through the generations — and his writing reflects growing up within a declining local rural culture, rich in tradition.
Stories rooted in place.
Andrew's novels sit at the meeting point of local place and culture seen through a queer lens, queer romance, and a spirituality grounded in queer ecology.
Explore Works →The Books
Harry and Xavier
Teenager Harry Dixon is feeling ill, desperate and lonely as the last summer term at his dreadful high school grinds on — until his quirky Parisian friend Xavier comes to visit. Mischievous, amiable, distracting… and attractive, Xavier might be just the medicine Harry needs.
The House with the Round Window
In this novel, Andrew Cheffings explores how subgroups can form within society, becoming coercive and creating intense power structures that are difficult to escape. John is a young middle-aged man working at a Community Music Centre on the Lincolnshire Marsh, struggling to deal with the challenging vision of his new boss and the results of the local gay intrigue which follows in its wake.
Harp Wood
In the 1980s, following decades of agricultural and cultural decline on the Lincolnshire Marsh, there was a sudden and unexpected springing of optimism. People opened odd businesses in remote houses far along marsh lanes — getting crafty, making strange objects from wood and following their hearts in new, queerer directions.
Muddy Lane
Anthony is running away from the mess he has made of his life… again. But this time he is determined to do things differently. Instead of moving to another old industrial midland city, he chooses a remote cottage down a muddy lane right out in the middle of nowhere, not far from the North Lincolnshire coast. But old (and new) boyfriends are not so easy to keep at bay...
Harry and Xavier
After another challenging term at dreadful Tinkle Gardens High School, Harry Dixon is feeling ill, desperate and lonely - until his cross-channel friend, Xavier, arrives for the summer. Mischievous, amiable and creative, Xavier is impossible to ignore, and slowly Harry's problems recede and new, interesting possibilities begin to unfold...
From the wider page
Beyond the novels, Andrew's work appears in wider literary collections — poetry and prose that share the same preoccupations with place, memory and queer identity.
Seven Hymns Set in London
In A Boxful of Ideas, poetry and prose by LGBT writers, Paradise Press. London is full of echoes and shadows of the past — sometimes barbarically cruel towards those who were different. These are poems of remembering and healing.
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