This book will be released in July 2026.
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The latest story collection from the winner of the Journey Prize.
A young man suffers a workplace accident in a bankrupt industrial unit on Christmas Eve; a couple set out in the midst of a snowstorm to save a wounded owl; a motley crew of local volunteers comes together to search the river for a missing child.
Borrowed for a Short Time is a collection of linked stories which blend fiction and creative non-fiction. Based on Keevil’s experiences of moving to mid Wales in his twenties, striving – sometimes failing – to fit into a new culture, the different narratives explore themes of isolation and belonging, love and longing, and what it means to call a place home.
Ranging from rural Wales to urban Vancouver, and featuring recurring characters whose lives and fates intertwine, this collection resonates with wisdom, warmth, and a rare, deceptively simple, honesty.
Praise for Burrard Inlet:
‘Beautiful writing… stunning’ – Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking
‘Vividly told in muscular prose, Keevil’s stories are compelling evocations of isolation and strength in an often unforgiving landscape.’ – Carys Bray, author of A Song for Issy Bradley
'Burrard Inlet is, first and foremost, a collection of short stories that tries to recognise the relationship between humans and nature through separate human identities… This is a piece of work that, without a doubt, should be added to a bookshelf of short story lovers and novel aficionadas alike.’ – Wales Arts Review
‘The masculine, often unforgiving scenarios which unfold here are a suitable for for Keevil’s economical – if elegant – phrasing, but a strong moral core is ever-present, and sometimes vindication for the downtrodden.’ – Buzz Magazine
Praise for Tyler Keevil's other books:
'Fireball pushes beyond the bounds of its genre, capturing the dynamics of friendship, seduction, and loss to impressive effect.' – New Welsh Review
'Keevil's skill as an author is everywhere evident: in the quirky dialogue, the lucid prose, and the skillful interweaving of multiple and non-linear narrative strands. This is clearly a novelist to be reckoned with.' – Planet Magazine
'absorbing, moving, tragic and sometimes funny.' – The Western Mail
'I haven't been as excited about reading a new writer since I read DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little.' – Jasper Rees
'His prose is graceful and subtle, there are moments of real, unforced poetry, but with that, he creates characters that live and breathe.' – Stef Penney
'Keevil’s storytelling is both elegant and meaty and his prose stunning' – Rachel Trezise
'Keevil’s prose proceeds with the laconic madness of a patient horse, and the same ability to buck and kick.' – Cynan Jones
