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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, � ...more

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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…mǰThe 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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“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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