Mark Bowles
Author of All My Precious Madness (Galley Beggar 2024), nominated for Goldsmiths Prize; Authors Club First Novel Award; James Tait Memorial Prize. How Do People Stay the Same (Galley Beggar) will be published in 2026.
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The Other Side of Stealing (opens the original)
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Fame (opens the original)
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The invasions I suffered as a child made me more sensitive to the world but also more closed and protective. They, the invasions, punctured the membrane which – ordinarily – comes between a person and the world. I was therefore exposed as others are not. This made everything raw. This made my nerves electric. But then I had to invent new and tougher pro… Read more
Help me research the next novel (opens the original)
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