3rd September 2025

It has been a turbulent time. With the closure of ACX, I have taken a financial hit — but KDP has announced they will soon open a direct route to Amazon for audiobooks. In the long term, this may be for the greater good, even if the short-term loss has been difficult.

Meanwhile, my research continues to connect threads that once seemed impossible. Information received from the Clinton Library links directly to what I have long called the “holy trilogy” of three figures at the centre of my Stealing of Emily books. It is the elephant in the room that grows harder for the public record to ignore.

Creatively, I have been pushing forward too. My Blender work has started to produce images I am proud to share. I continue to update my main websites — martinnewbold.co.uk and martinnewbold.com — where I recently added new sections under Poetry & Music.

Looking ahead, I have two more books in development: one currently in thirteen chapters of draft form, and the final volume in the Badgers of Bunger Hill series. The latter depends on how events unfold in the real world, but I remain determined to bring it to a close.

What I do not yet have, though I need, is a Wikipedia page. That absence makes it harder for readers and researchers to locate the breadth of my work in one place.

Author and campaigner Martin Newbold is preparing a twelve-chapter investigation that exposes this scandal. The book weaves government admissions, official records, and personal testimony — including his own daughter’s unclaimed fund from 2004 — into a story that demands answers. It’s codenamed this, which may eventually be its name. It’s funny I have been trying to find a name for my new book and it’s staring me in the face 🙂

For now, here is the Publicity Rush for my forthcoming twelve-chapter investigation:

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Publicity Rush — Untitled Manuscript (12 Chapters)

A government figure too large to ignore.
A father’s search too personal to dismiss.

In 2025 the Treasury admitted that 430,000 Child Trust Funds were missing. These accounts, created for every child born between 2002 and 2011, should have followed each child to adulthood. Instead, nearly half a million young people reached eighteen with nothing waiting for them. The money is there. The accounts exist. But the children are not.

This new twelve-chapter investigation combines hard data, official admissions, and lived experience to expose the truth behind one of Britain’s quietest scandals. It traces:

• The promise of the Child Trust Fund scheme and its collapse into silence.
• The false records of “kinship care” that disguised unlawful placements.
• The evidence of children recorded on paper but absent in reality.
• The overlap between missing accounts, missing children, and international exploitation networks.
• A father’s pursuit of justice for his daughter, born in 2004, whose CTF matured in 2022 but was never received.

Chapter by chapter, the book builds a case that is at once forensic and human: from the bureaucratic corridors of East Sussex County Council to the corridors of power where Blair and Clinton shook hands, from care home licensing statistics to Epstein’s acquisition of a second island in 2009.

At its heart lies a single, unavoidable question:
Where are the 430,000?

This book will challenge politicians, unsettle professionals, and disturb every reader who believes the state protects its most vulnerable. It is not speculation. It is built on government admissions, official reports, and personal testimony. It is, above all, an alarm that cannot be un-rung.

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Martin Newbold