AJ Brambling
Book One
Thornwick Hollow
Some places run cold. Thornwick Hollow is freezing to death. A burned-out city mender inherits a cottage, a shop, and a village dying of an unnatural chill.
Stories of Quiet Magic
The Mending House Chronicles
Lantern-lit cosy fantasy about a village that mends, a cold that spreads, and the stubborn warmth that fights back. Begin where it all starts — in Thornwick Hollow.
“The cold only beats you when you're alone.”
the series
The Mending House Chronicles
Best read in order — each book carries the warmth a little further into the cold.
Book Two
The Fading Web
Thornwick Hollow is warm again — but beyond its hills, other hearths are going dark. Wren follows a single word north into the Cawderlands to bring the warmth back.
Coming
October 2026
October 2026
signed & shipped by hand
Signed paperbacks
Thornwick Hollow — Signed Paperback
Book One · first-edition paperback, signed & personalized
$20.00 · free shipping in the US
Signed and personalized just for you — tell me who to sign it to when you order. Packed and shipped by hand from the Hollow.
The Fading Web — Signed Paperback
Book Two · first-edition paperback, signed & personalized
$20.00 · free shipping in the US
Signed and personalized just for you — tell me who to sign it to when you order. Packed and shipped by hand from the Hollow.
Ships free within the US. Every copy is signed, personalized, and packed by hand — allow a little time for the ink to dry and the parcel to fly.
The author
About AJ Brambling
AJ Brambling writes cosy fantasy for readers who believe old cottages keep secrets, kindness is braver than it looks, and every locked door is waiting for the right sort of person to knock.
Best represented by ivy-covered stone, Earl Grey tea, overstuffed bookshelves, suspicious garden paths, and the occasional opinionated bird, Brambling's stories live somewhere between the warmth of a hearth and the hush of the woods. They are tales of quiet magic, stubborn hope, found courage, and ordinary people who discover they are far less ordinary than they imagined.
Thornwick Hollow is Brambling's first novel.
The Reader's Circle
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Follow along
Between letters
Between letters, I keep a quieter kind of company on Instagram and Pinterest — cottage corners, candlelit moods, and the small inspirations behind Thornwick Hollow.