Mark Dudley
@markdudley.bsky.social
Writing crime
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
'High Water' - shortlisted: 2024 Yeovil Novel Prize, longlisted: 2025 Retreat West Opening Lines: Top 100 Bath Novel Award
'Dead Wood' - longlisted: 2022 Exeter Novel Prize and 2023 Grindstone Literary Prize
https://linktr.ee/markdudleyauthor
This morning I finished the brilliant Sistersong by @silvanhistorian.bsky.social. This afternoon I made a start on @katemossewriter.bsky.social 's The City of Tears.
June 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This morning I finished the brilliant Sistersong by @silvanhistorian.bsky.social. This afternoon I made a start on @katemossewriter.bsky.social 's The City of Tears.
Day 3 of Badger-geddon (I'm assuming it's a badger by the sheer clumsiness). The photograph was Day 2, today he/she broke into the birdfood bin and helped him/herself to sunflower seeds and dried mealworms.
May 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Day 3 of Badger-geddon (I'm assuming it's a badger by the sheer clumsiness). The photograph was Day 2, today he/she broke into the birdfood bin and helped him/herself to sunflower seeds and dried mealworms.
Oh my god! This is rather fun. And horrible.
April 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oh my god! This is rather fun. And horrible.
Johana Gustawsson and engerthomas.bsky.social 'Son'. About a third of the way through and I resent having to put it down to edit.
April 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Johana Gustawsson and engerthomas.bsky.social 'Son'. About a third of the way through and I resent having to put it down to edit.
Playing Corvid Bingo this morning - just missing magpie, raven and jay for what I might expect round here. Painting by @elidanza.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Playing Corvid Bingo this morning - just missing magpie, raven and jay for what I might expect round here. Painting by @elidanza.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Two headlines on LBC's news page this morning. I'll just leave these here. #TwoTierBritain
April 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Two headlines on LBC's news page this morning. I'll just leave these here. #TwoTierBritain
Just started @katemossewriter.bsky.social The Burning Chambers.
April 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just started @katemossewriter.bsky.social The Burning Chambers.
Rosewater by @tadethompson.bsky.social. Bought it years ago and it has been behind my plotting whiteboard. Found it yesterday and enjoying tremendously so far.
March 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Rosewater by @tadethompson.bsky.social. Bought it years ago and it has been behind my plotting whiteboard. Found it yesterday and enjoying tremendously so far.
The Hunter by the brilliant Tana French.
February 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Hunter by the brilliant Tana French.
@simonforstroud.bsky.social I have been watching footage of the tractors in London this week as they blocked roads in a planned protest. Are you able to explain why climate activists were jailed for not dissimilar actions, but no action is taken against the tractor drivers?
February 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
@simonforstroud.bsky.social I have been watching footage of the tractors in London this week as they blocked roads in a planned protest. Are you able to explain why climate activists were jailed for not dissimilar actions, but no action is taken against the tractor drivers?
I started with these...
January 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I started with these...
I finished AK Turner's Body Language this morning. Trying to decide whether to just read the next up on my TBR pile - Vaseem Kaan's 'Midnight at Malabar House' or to allow Joseph O'Connor's 'Ghost Light' to jump the queue ...
January 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I finished AK Turner's Body Language this morning. Trying to decide whether to just read the next up on my TBR pile - Vaseem Kaan's 'Midnight at Malabar House' or to allow Joseph O'Connor's 'Ghost Light' to jump the queue ...
According to Mark by the brilliant Penelope Lively
January 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
According to Mark by the brilliant Penelope Lively
Beautiful sunrise on a cold, tear-producing, morning. As I reached the end of Field Road, a cacophony of rooks erupted all around, but unseen. It was slightly uncanny - particularly as I started my annual read of Susan Cooper's #TheDarkisRising this morning.
December 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Beautiful sunrise on a cold, tear-producing, morning. As I reached the end of Field Road, a cacophony of rooks erupted all around, but unseen. It was slightly uncanny - particularly as I started my annual read of Susan Cooper's #TheDarkisRising this morning.
It was very dark with low cloud over Whiteshill this morning as I set off on my walk. The picture is from years ago, but the impression this morning was the same.
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM
It was very dark with low cloud over Whiteshill this morning as I set off on my walk. The picture is from years ago, but the impression this morning was the same.
A birthday sunrise this morning. What a difference from yesterdays low cloud and wind-driven drizzle.
December 6, 2024 at 9:07 AM
A birthday sunrise this morning. What a difference from yesterdays low cloud and wind-driven drizzle.
I seem to be on a run of ghost stories, but it's not deliberate, they were next on my To be read list. Finished the unsettling Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe this morning. Now reading Michele Roberts' The Walworth Beauty.
November 23, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I seem to be on a run of ghost stories, but it's not deliberate, they were next on my To be read list. Finished the unsettling Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe this morning. Now reading Michele Roberts' The Walworth Beauty.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,154,906!
October 1, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,154,906!