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Alexander Garvey Holbrook

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in Manchester, The United Kingdom

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Alexander Garvey Holbrook is an author and teacher from Manchester, England. He lives and works there with his wife and son. In 2019, he graduated from the prestigious Manchester Writing School's MA Creative Writing programme with Distinction. He has a crippling addiction to Yorkshire Tea and secondhand books. ...more

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“In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you good readers who read books not for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters, and not for the adolescent purpose of learning to live, and not for the academic purpose of indulging in generalizations. I have tried to teach you to read books for the sake of their form, their visions, their art. I have tried to teach you to feel a shiver of artistic satisfaction, to share not the emotions of the people in the book but the emotions of its author — the joys and difficulties of creation. We did not talk around books, about books; we went to the center of this or that masterpiece, to the live heart of the matter.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

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This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more

Graphic Novel Reading Group — 5402 members — last activity Jan 08, 2026 04:27AM
This is a place where lovers of the Sequential Art form of Literature (graphic novels, comic books, manga, etc.) can get together and talk about their ...more

Bright Young Things — 1221 members — last activity Jan 03, 2023 09:21PM
...the perfect place for you to discuss your favourite authors from the early 20th Century. In the years from 1900 to 1945 the world of literature w ...more

Advanced Copies for Review & Book Giveaways — 15948 members — last activity 8 hours, 25 min ago
A place to help authors and reviewers come together to get the word out about new books as well as a group for anyone to post or enter listings for bo ...more

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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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If the group name doesn't sum up what this group is about, here's a longer description. Indie writers often struggle to get reviews. We've set up a s ...more

Goodreads Reviewers' Group — 13262 members — last activity 2 hours, 43 min ago
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