Praise for All My Precious Madness:

“Mark Bowles’s striking debut explores working-class identity, masculinity and alienation… The book is also a poignant meditation on a son’s love for his father, the desire for human connection, and the consolations of poetry.” Lucy Popescu, Observer

‘Unapologetically erudite and frequently brutal... a devastating satire on the way in which class, education and masculinity act as a kind of trap.’ —The Telegraph

"At once crackling with spontaneity and beautifully controlled, alternating between a curmudgeon’s uproarious disgust and a child’s poignant wonder, Bowles’s novel is a wonderful piece of writing which you will be sorry to finish." Lola Seaton, Goldsmiths Prize

“All My Precious Madness is an astutely observed portrait of intellectual melancholia.” The Guardian

“Over recent weeks, as I’ve raved about this novel, recommending it to friends and family, I found myself repeatedly saying ‘it’s like he can read my mind - your mind - our minds, the minds of the few sane humans left on the planet.. This is a delicious book; poetic, vindictive, angry, clever, funny, upsetting, profound; in a way, revolutionary. It celebrates individuality in the face of the deadening weight of rapacious capitalism, the thick-headedness of what passes for modern culture, the debasement of intellect in the online world, and the collective herd-mentality of the vast swathe of humanity.” Neil Mackay Scottish Herald

“Funny and biting… vivid and spare… It’s the energy of the sentences that drags you along and makes sure that reading All My Precious Madness is a pleasure, even when Henry is at his most maddening.” —John Self, The Times

“A politically astute and deeply satisfying rebuttal to middle-aged-white-men-railing-against-an-unrecognisable-world literary norms, this incendiary debut marries its brutal observation to an implacable humanism and, in doing so, swerves the usual hectoring and elevates the reading experience.” —Lunate