Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu – shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2026

I was to have reviewed this novel for the annual Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize longlist celebration, but the review copy didn’t arrive until a couple of days before the shortlist was announced and I couldn’t read it in time. However, Derek Owusu’s Borderline Fiction made it through to the shortlist, so I had the Read More

Review Catch-up #2 from 2018

More shorter reviews of books I read towards the end of 2018… The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson There are so many books written by hospital doctors these days – of all types. Surgeon’s stories in the operating theatre; junior doctor’s comedic diaries; heart-breaking lives cut short by cancer – they fill shelves Read More