🎧 OUT NOW! Hear an exclusive interview with Derek Owusu (@derekvsowusu ), author of 'Borderline Fiction', shortlisted for the 2026 prize. Owusu is in conversation with @swanseauni English Literature (@writingandeng.lit_swanseauni ) students Charlie Razzell and Taiga Scott.
▶️ Listen via the link to 'Bookends Podcast' in our bio! #SUDTP26
My new Quick Read, Hunger Pains, is out today! A short, accessible novel designed to fit into busy lives. A story of obsession, hunger, gym culture and more.
#QuickReads are available in public libraries or your local bookshop. Also available in audio.
The cover for my new novel, The Recovery House. This is an original painting by the amazing @zahraanesdesign . Publishing 17th September and you can pre order now.
“I’m not sure how I ended up here…”
Introducing The Recovery House by Derek Owusu, a Granta Best Young British Novelist and Desmond Elliot Prize winner.
A stunningly lyrical novel about the music that survives inside us when language falters 🎵
Featuring a beautiful painting by the talented @zahraanesdesign we love this gorgeous cover 🖼️
Publishing this September and available to pre-order now, comment if you’d like to get your hands on a proof!
My fourth novel (or my 5th) will be published by the incredible @merkybooks . The Recovery House is set entirely in a mental health facility, sometimes called a 'halfway house', a place for the vulnerable to prepare to face the outside world again. It's a place between sanity and insanity, a purgatorial space where faith and love and friendship can develop without being pulled and stretched into something difficult to hold on to. I created these characters and their relationships to break my own cycle of being hospitalized, so this is my most hopeful book, and I'm incredibly proud of it. Publishing September 17th 2026 ♥️
