On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to writer Mark Bowles. Mark grew up between Bradford and Leeds, and went on to study English at Liverpool and Oxford Universities. His debut novel, All My Precious Madness, was published at the end of last year, and has been nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award.

In the episode, we hear more about the writing and editing process for All My Precious Madness. We discuss corporate jargon, Mark’s love of espressos and whether or not his book can be called an anti-English novel.

Timestamps

• 0.37 - Mark Bowles in The London Magazine archives
• 2.58 - A passage from 'All My Precious Madness'
• 7.54 - Voice in the novel
• 10.15 - The virtues of exaggeration
• 13.50 - Ideas do not fully precede their expression
• 15.48 - Surprises when writing the novel
• 18.36 - Mark's love of espressos at Bar Termini
• 22.27 - 'All My Precious Madness' as a pro-European novel
• 24.24 - Aphorisms
• 29.58 - His next book?
• 31.57 - What Mark's been reading and enjoying recently

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