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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Short video on one reason why having children might help us write. Ps my workshop on Starting Late is next Tuesday at 6pm UK time. Email met for details: bowles.mark@gmail.com

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah. Need to look again at the diary. 😉

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. I’ll be there, all being well.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are you actually doing this!?

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This way of referring to something as “ideological” (meaning something like a biased, inflexible set of ideas) is itself ideological!

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not my assembly, but a friend: the eccentric Shakespearean critic G Wilson Knight was invited to speak at their school and after quoting from King Lear, started taking his clothes off.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone know if it’s possible find out in advance how much (if anything) the ALCS pays you? I believe it’s next week?

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today’s normal is tomorrow’s gaudy ridiculous trash

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m available for A-Level and GCSE English tuition. Please spread the word! #gcse #englishliterature

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As September opens out, it is time to return to your writing. I'm doing online tutorials and greatly enjoying it. Email me and I'll explain: bowles.mark@gmail.com

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes, his books are utter shite. It is an outrage that celebs can get children's books into bookshops so easily whilst genuinely talented writers are scrimping and scraping. But Walliams is a particularly egregious (love using that word) example.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You should compile an anthology of poetry. I would buy it.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And of course the early Zionists were largely atheists like Ed. But yes, the whole tradition and extent of secular Judaism is suddenly rendered suspect by the ideologically compliant BBC

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Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Enjoyed the launch of @markabowles.bsky.social excellent new book 'How Do People Say the Same' last night

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great evening! Thanks to all who came.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A tremendous, thoughtful review of @markabowles.bsky.social How Do People Stay The Same in @thespectator1828.bsky.social: spectator.com/article/a-su... "A fascinating formal experiment... In its very disjointedness, Bowles’s bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels."

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A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed

Readers of Mark Bowles’s All My Precious Madness (2024) will find much that is familiar in How Do People Stay the Same. Both are about a Bradford-born writer with a love of travel, philosophy and espr...

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How Do People Stay the Same - Nice review in The Spectator, albeit behind the paywall: “a fascinating formal experiment.. Bowles's bracing book gets closer to the messy truth of life than do most novels.” spectator.com/article/a-su...

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A succession of selves: How Do People Stay the Same by Mark Bowles reviewed

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Looking forward to seeing fellow writers and readers tomorrow for the launch of How Do People Stay the Same. I believe there’s room for a few more so please come along:

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Do hope you like the rest of it Mike, let me know your thoughts.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So “US relations” are to be maintained irrespective of any question of ethics or principle?

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last chance to book for this Let's get those poems out into the world ❤️

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If AI is sentient what/ where are its sense organs?

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey Mike, Henry is an unpleasant character in some ways. Maybe more so later on in the book. There’s some overlap with me but lots of dissimilarities. Sorry if you were offended. Ps I was similarly mocked for my Yorkshire accent. Pps my wife’s from Harborne.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well, if you don’t support freedom of speech for views you find repellent it’s meaningless. I suspect there are very few free speech absolutists.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 05/09/2026

We're all living in man-made societies. Nothing is inevitable. All of these structure were the result of man-made choices. Other choices were - and still are - available.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

10th September at Nest and Vine, Queens Rd Peckham. If you haven’t already, please dm or email me if you’re coming. Bowles.mark@gmail.com Hope to see you there!!

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The list has obviously been censored.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This list has obviously been censored.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The one exception is a song that the narrator can’t bear to listen to. Coincidentally, I share his feelings.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Playlist. All songs mentioned (with one exception) in How Do People Stay the Same: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Pr...

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

10th September at Nest and Vine, Queens Rd Peckham. If you haven’t already, please dm or email me if you’re coming. Bowles.mark@gmail.com Hope to see you there!!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This was a brilliant discussion between @markabowles.bsky.social and @susannacrossman.bsky.social about literature, the self, memory and so much more! Well worth your time - plus a brilliant reading by Mark from his new novel, How Do People Stay the Same.

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Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It was an absolute thought-inciting pleasure speaking to the brilliant and amusing @susannacrossman.bsky.social for the online launch of How Do People Stay the Same @galleybeggars.bsky.social, and here it is online so you can listen too: app.box.com/s/pu14ca4v5v... #howdopeoplestaythesame

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