Yay! Delphi was awarded Runner-Up in the 2025 Eyelands Book Award (SP)

✨ I’m very happy to share some lovely news.

My novel DELPHI has been awarded Runner-Up in the 2025 Eyelands Book Awards, an international award that celebrates independent and self-published fiction from around the world.

This recognition follows Dancing the Labyrinth, which won the 2024 Eyelands Book Award (SP category). Rather than feeling like separate moments, these acknowledgements feel linked — part of a longer conversation about story, risk, and the value of work that refuses to hurry.

The Eyelands Book Award is known for championing books that sit slightly outside the expected: narratives shaped by intuition, complexity, and trust in the reader. For DELPHI to be recognised in this context feels especially meaningful.

DELPHI is a novel shaped by place, myth, and inner geography. It continues my ongoing fascination with thresholds — between past and present, certainty and doubt, the visible world and the symbolic one. Like much of my work, it grew slowly and intuitively, asking to be listened to rather than managed.

Awards don’t define a book. But they do create a pause — a moment when a story written in solitude is met, considered, and held by others. That pause matters.

Thank you to the Eyelands Book Award judges, and to readers who have travelled with DELPHI , or who may be arriving now.

If you’re curious about the novel, or about the path it follows alongside Dancing the Labyrinth, you’re very welcome to explore it in your own time.