Mr Gorzug and the Matter of Family
(2026)(The fifth book in the Mr Gorzug series)
A novel by Nole Moody
Mr. Gorzug has survived portals, paperwork, professional development, and the English summer. Now he faces something worse.
His mother is coming to school.
By ordinary standards, Halcyon Comprehensive is not prepared for Vorga of the Red Vale. It has a visitor book, a safeguarding policy, several laminated notices, and Mrs. Doyle on Reception, which is more defence than many fortresses enjoy. Unfortunately, Vorga has not crossed worlds to admire the signage.
She has come to inspect her son’s life.
Mr. Gorzug is no longer merely the orc warrior who fell into a British school and accidentally became one of its most trusted teachers. He has chosen Halcyon. He has chosen England. Most dangerously, he has chosen Miss Khan, whose strength is precise, human, quietly devastating, and not at all shaped like the strength his old world knows how to respect.
Now bloodline, duty, clan expectation, corridor duty, and tea are about to collide.
As pupils spread rumours about ‘more orcs in Reception,’ staff prepare for a family meeting with international implications, and Miss Khan refuses to be made smaller in her own school, Gorzug must answer the question his old world has brought with it.
What makes a family?
And who gets to decide?
A dry, warm, comic fantasy about schools, love, lineage, chosen homes, and the terrifying power of a well-run Reception desk.
Genre: Fantasy
His mother is coming to school.
By ordinary standards, Halcyon Comprehensive is not prepared for Vorga of the Red Vale. It has a visitor book, a safeguarding policy, several laminated notices, and Mrs. Doyle on Reception, which is more defence than many fortresses enjoy. Unfortunately, Vorga has not crossed worlds to admire the signage.
She has come to inspect her son’s life.
Mr. Gorzug is no longer merely the orc warrior who fell into a British school and accidentally became one of its most trusted teachers. He has chosen Halcyon. He has chosen England. Most dangerously, he has chosen Miss Khan, whose strength is precise, human, quietly devastating, and not at all shaped like the strength his old world knows how to respect.
Now bloodline, duty, clan expectation, corridor duty, and tea are about to collide.
As pupils spread rumours about ‘more orcs in Reception,’ staff prepare for a family meeting with international implications, and Miss Khan refuses to be made smaller in her own school, Gorzug must answer the question his old world has brought with it.
What makes a family?
And who gets to decide?
A dry, warm, comic fantasy about schools, love, lineage, chosen homes, and the terrifying power of a well-run Reception desk.
Genre: Fantasy