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Andrew Holmes

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Andrew Holmes’s first novel, ‘Sleb’, was shortlisted for the WH Smith New Talent Award in the UK. This was followed by ‘All Fur Coat’, ’64 Clarke’, and ‘Rain Dogs And Love Cats’, all of which were critically well received, earning him comparisons with Martin Amis and Elmore Leonard, among others.

As A.E. Moorat, he wrote the horror-comedy mash-ups, ‘Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter’ and ‘Henry VIII, Wolfman’, while as Oliver Bowden he has written six books set in the Assassin's Creed video game universe: ‘Secret Crusade’, ‘Forsaken’, ‘Black Flag’, ‘Unity’, ‘Underworld’ and ‘Desert Oath’. He has also collaborated with James Patterson on the novella, ‘Hunted’, part of Patterson’s Bookshot series.

His most recent work is the survival-horror novel, ‘
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Andrew Holmes The germ of the idea for ‘Bloody Kids’ came to me when I was out running. I’d taken to deviating from my normal route and striking out in new directio…moreThe germ of the idea for ‘Bloody Kids’ came to me when I was out running. I’d taken to deviating from my normal route and striking out in new directions, often on overgrown footpaths. Most times they’d be dead-ends or nothingy shortcuts, but I’d see a lot of stuff I’d never seen before. Derelict outbuildings, mostly. Crumbling brick overgrown with ivy, rusted corrugated iron and rotted woodwork. And every now and then I’d find myself on a strange track I never knew existed, passing a rundown homestead previously hidden from sight.
They almost always had the same air of lived-in neglect, these buildings. Dark and careworn and kind of secretive, so that you couldn’t help but wonder what went on behind the paint-peeling doors and tattered curtains – because they always had paint-peeling doors and tattered curtains – and you couldn’t help but wonder what kind of person lived there.
There was one in particular. I only passed it once, and we moved house shortly afterwards so I never saw it again – not that I would have cared to, because this particular place was a farmhouse, unkempt like the others, but surrounded by a low fence. Nailed to the fence was a line of baby car seats. Six or seven of them, like old and mouldy ornaments, each with its own story to tell.
‘Bloody Kids’ is not me thinking, What were those car seats doing there? Although in a way it is, because it’s about that sensation of being brought up short by a jarring and macabre image, like that bit in Wizard Of Oz when Dorothy says, ‘Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.’ Civilisation and normality aren’t far away – as the crow flies – but if we’re in a place where someone nails baby car seats to a fence, then civilisation and normality might as well be on the other side of the world. It's a scary feeling.
A feeling like: anything could happen here.
Like maybe it already has.(less)
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How the kids got bloody, by Andrew Holmes

The germ of the idea for ‘Bloody Kids’ came to me when I was out running. I’d taken to deviating from my normal route and striking out in new directions, often on overgrown footpaths. Most times they’d be dead-ends or nothingy shortcuts, but I’d see a lot of stuff I’d never seen before. Derelict outbuildings, mostly. Crumbling brick overgrown with ivy, rust Read more of this blog post »
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“Thinking is an art because it requires you to listen to your thoughts and then do something with them.”
Andrew Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance: A modern-day interpretation of a self-help classic

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