Jackdaw Affliction

2026 Literary Titan Silver Book Award

Memory is a tricky thing. Reality is fragile. And the past never stays buried.

From bike rides through the suburbs of 1980s Hampshire to the claustrophobic grind of adulthood, Billy Cooper's life is shaped by loss, fractured family ties, and the creeping onset of a degenerative disease. As his body betrays him and grief corrodes what remains, Billy turns inward-into recollections that blur, narratives that contradict, and personas that may never have exis...