Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson's first two books won three of Britain's most important literary awards. Our Grandmothers' Drums, describing a year spent in a remote Gambian village, won the Thomas Cook Award for the Best Travel Book of 1990 and the Somerset Maugham Award. His second, Coming Back Brockens, on a former mining village in Durham, won the NCR Award for the best non-fiction book of 1995.  His first novel The Music in my Head was published to critical acclaim in 1998 . Mark Hudson is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Mail on Sunday. He lives in London with his wife and daughter, and is currently working on a book about the artist Titian, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2008.

Titles

The Music in my Head  (Jonathan Cape, 1998)

Coming Back Brockens  (Jonathan Cape, 1994)

Our Grandmothers' Drums  (Grove PR, 1990)