🎄🎁 DEAD INK ADVENT DAY 22 🎁🎄 More from the Dead Ink team - Michael is the deadinkbookshop Manager which entails hosting a myriad of author events, book quizzes and bookish dinners, keeping us rich in the currency of flavoured teas and coffee, and the shelves consistently stocked with the most grim, psycho-social, depressing European fiction he can get his hands on. His book of the year is ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS 📚 by Mark Bowles. "ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS is startling, hilarious, moving and one of the most assured literary debuts in years. Incensed by the chattering, laptop-wielding hip young professionals whose blovations interfere with his quiet, contemplative espresso, our narrator unleashes a stream of invective and personal reminiscences; a book-length polemic against contemporary society that is scabrous, hilarious and underscored with a slow-building pathos. Touching on social analysis, male fragility, the British class system and more, it is a bold, opinionated and philos...