Author: Richard Holliday
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Review: Dogs of War (Paperback)

Maybe I’m just not a dog person. I picked up Dogs of War recently as a charity shop purchase – I was wary on buying it as I didn’t have a great experience with Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time at all. However, it was an inexpensive purchase and the premise of the book seemed intriguing,…
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Comic Sans – Why I Don’t Get on With Comic (Movies)

A while back I posted a fairly well-received post explaining my struggles with fantasy fiction. There’s certainly a depth of feeling there as it’s a hot genre; and even those who may have disagreed, to a degree profoundly, appreciated that I set out my stall. Recently my good friend Chris Kenny posted his thoughts on the…
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Creative Writing in Your Lunchtime

I’ve generally been trying to use my local library – Sutton Central Library – more as a workspace that inspires concentration as one of the worst traits I know I have is that I procrastinate like mad at home. Over the weekend I spotted a poster in the lift for an upcoming series of free…