Borrowed Light: An Annotated Life in Books

by Nathan Robinson

For anyone who's ever dog-eared a page or underlined a sentence only to realize it underlined you back — this book is for you. This is what happens when 800 books, 50 years of marginalia, and a dangerous disregard for staying on topic collide. Part philosophical wandering, part accidental memoir, part love letter to the margins — Borrowed Light leverages quotes and passages from present and past thinkers into a mix of timeless wisdom and timely irreverence. Dostoevsky meets modern dating. Emily Dickinson explains your existential crisis. Oscar Wilde roasts your productivity habits. Borges bends your mind and Blake builds palaces for your late-night mistakes. This isn't a memoir, manual, or manifesto — just an invitation to linger, to reflect, and maybe, just maybe, to see your own story hiding between the lines or forge a new one based on them.

94 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2025

About the author

Nathan Robinson started writing fiction at an early age, however it took untill he was 26 to finally submit something.
His first acceptence was for THE CHICKEN IN BLACK which won first prize on www.spinetinglers.co.uk, If you ever meet a girl named Maisie Mae came next, quickly followed by Hatch, Banana Boxes, Brian of the Night and The Spare. Maisie Mae was included in Panic Press's Soup of Souls anthology. His Mexican Gangster thriller Top of the Heap was released as a podcast in April 2011 from www.pseudopod.org and is due for release by The Dark Fiction Spotlight in their best of Anthology


So far he’s had numerous short stories published bywww.spinetinglers.co.uk, Rainstorm Press, Knight Watch Press, Pseudopod, The Horror Zine, The Sinister Horror Company, Static Movement, Splatterpunk Zine and many more.
He writes best in the dead of night or travelling at 77mph.
He is a regular reviewer for www.snakebitehorror.co.uk and Splatterpunk Zine, which he loves because he gets free books. He likes free books.
His first novel “Starers” was released by Severed Press to rave reviews. This was followed by his short story collection “Devil Let Me Go”, and the novellas “Ketchup with Everything” and “Midway” and the novel, “Caldera.”
He is currently working on his next novels, “Death-Con 4” and a sequel to “Starers.”
Follow news, reviews and the author blues at www.facebook.com/NathanRobinsonWrites or twitter @natthewriter