The Vellumwise library
Find a story worth following.
The library opens with the first Vellumwise series. Each one follows a believable person through a real problem — money, learning, work, health, law, family — with a council of original fictional experts who disagree in good faith.
No series has been announced yet.
Series appear here once they are approved for development, and go on sale only when every book is written and checked. Nothing is listed before then.
Subjects we write about
- Money & economicsBudgets, debt, saving, investing and the economics of everyday decisions.
- School & learningStudents, tutors and families working through subjects, exams and the way people learn.
- Work & careersHiring, layoffs, promotions, workplace politics and the long shape of a working life.
- Building a businessStarting, running, rescuing or closing a business — and what it asks of the people involved.
- Health & medicinePatients, carers and clinicians making sense of diagnoses, evidence and the health system.
- Training & sportAthletes, coaches and beginners learning how bodies improve, recover and sometimes fail.
- Law & consumer rightsContracts, disputes, tenancy, consumer rights and what the rules actually say.
- Relationships & familyPartners, parents, children and friends navigating the choices that bind or separate them.
- Mind & behaviourHabits, biases, stress and decision-making — psychology dramatised, not prescribed.
- Practical life skillsNegotiation, organisation, communication and the competencies nobody formally teaches.
- Home & housingRenting, buying, sharing and maintaining a home, and the decisions that come with it.
- Migration & new beginningsMoving countries, learning languages and building a life between cultures.
- Arts & hobbiesCraft, music, writing and the slow discipline of getting better at something you love.