Dan Holloway is a an award-winning spoken word performer happiest hanging out behind a microphone and running performance nights at his favourite haunts in Oxford. He writes thrillers set in Oxford and literary novels inspired by Japanese authors. This summer he’ll be touring various festivals and fringes from Stoke Newington to Brighton with his music and spoken word show The New Libertines, featuring many of the UK’s most exciting up and coming writers.
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Oxford. City of learning, culture, and a history that hides the darkest lusts of the human heart. Tommy West. Brilliant academic, until a breakdown 12 years ago. He has reinvented himself as a successful interior designer. But life without the intellectual challenge is slowly suffocating him.
Charles Shaw. Outspoken professor of theology. Sensualist. Unpopular with all his colleagues. Loathed by his ex-wife. And, as of five minutes ago, dead.
As a student, Shaw was Tommy’s mentor. Now Tommy must draw on the professor for inspiration one more time in order to find his killer. The police are convinced the Professor’s death was a suicide, which should make Tommy’s hunt easier. Only in this case, the police means his ex, Emily Harris, and her sultry sergeant Rosie Lu. The unspeakable truth about the Professor’s death lies buried in the past: somewhere between the night his daughter was born – and her twin sister stillborn – and the day Tommy broke down. Can he find the answers before time, and his sanity, run out. Buy The Company of Fellows for £0.70 to find the answer.
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The day the Berlin Wall came down, Jennifer returned to England, leaving her week-old daughter, Szandi, to grow up on a Hungarian vineyard with 300 years of history. Now 18, Szandi is part of Budapest’s cosmopolitan art scene, sharing a flat and a bohemian lifestyle with her lover and fellow sculptress, Yang. She has finally found her place in the world. When she discovers her father has only weeks to live, she must choose once and for all: between the past and the present; between East and West; between her family and her lover.
Songs from the Other Side of the Wall is a coming of age story that inhabits anti-capitalist chatrooms and ancient wine cellars, seedy bars and dreaming spires; and takes us on a remarkable journey across Europe and cyberspace in the company of rock stars and dropouts, diaries that appear from nowhere, a telepathic fashion mogul, and the talking statue of a bull. This contemporary fiction that has been well-reviewed by customers is selling for only £0.70.
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Why are there some images we just can’t look away from, whilst others fade without us ever noticing they were there?
When mysterious Polish woman Agnieszka Iwanowa’s tragi-comic death in a gym accident is uploaded to YouTube, the film’s final image of her upturned trainers is rehashed by everyone from right wing extremists to a reclusive installation artist who only speaks through his dominatrix PA.Now Dan Griffiths has to make the image fresh.
The search for Agnieszka’s secret slowly overtakes Dan’s search for his own daughter, missing for ten years, ignored by the media, and now sending him – and the reader – glimpses of messages from what seems like another world.Dan’s journey sucks him into the worlds of political extremism; BDSM; a haiku-composing graffiti artist; an online community devoted to the dead girl, and its reclusive Japanese schoolboy moderator who has just paid half a million dollars for the diary of a scientist whose work he believes will enable him to bring Agnieszka back from the dead. This is a story about a world gone numb, a world in which pain is the only thing that’s real. Today you can purchase the book for your Kindle for only £2.14.
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