PHPatrick Holloway

1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Patrick Holloway

   Taking a year out to write sounds romantic. It isn’t (opens the original)

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   People see me reading in cafes and remark on it. “Oh, the life,” they say, with a laugh that is not entirely a joke. And I get it. It’s 11am; I have a coffee, a novel and no place I need to be. Much of a writer’s work can look like leisure. Even while working, you can appear to be doing nothing at all. But reading is part of my job. Books arrive with a deadline attached: a review to write, an author to interview, a public conversation to lead. I also assess students’ stories and unpubl

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2. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Patrick Holloway

   A brilliant book of fiction keeps breathing somewhere in the mind long after you close it (opens the original)

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   Since publishing my debut novel, The Language of Remembering, last year, I have been lucky enough to receive proof copies of forthcoming books. And since the buzz of 2025 has calmed down, I find myself reading more than ever and contemplating what makes a novel remain long after the last page. Which novels make me stop, to think, to question my own ideas and outlooks? Which are the novels that alter the internal conditions of perception itself, as though they have subtly adjusted the lens throug

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