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Dominic Holland Takes on Life Vol.2
Easy-to-read comic essays to make readers laugh, smile and think. A self-help book from a funny author leading a very bizarre life. Despite his best efforts as a comedian his career has been eclipsed by his fatherhood.
Dominic Holland Takes on Life
As a comedian, Dominic Holland has fearlessly confronted thorny subjects. Asking questions such as; When is an onion actually peeled? Rest assured, his writing here remains as intrepid. 31 comic essays on your life and his.
Dominic Holland Takes on Life
As a comedian, Dominic Holland has fearlessly confronted thorny subjects. Asking questions such as; When is an onion actually peeled? Rest assured, his writing here remains as intrepid. 31 comic essays on your life and his.
Made in England
A priceless violin is left on a London train. A hunt ensues and everyone wonders who the owner is and how come they ride the train? An affectionate comic love story written with wit, charm and a heap of warmth.
Eclipsed
An explanation of how a boy called Tom Holland who was never even in a school play, managed to become Marvel's new Spider-Man while still in his teens. Written with great humour and affection by his dad, the British comedian, Dominic Holland who is as proud as he is bemused at his son's burgeoning career.
The Fruit Bowl
Sometimes things just happen. Little things that appear incidental but go on to have life changing consequences; good and bad. The Fruit Bowl draws on this theme. Break-time at St. Edmunds School in the 1970's; two boys lives are about to be changed forever. Tom Harper is a twelve year old being picked on by a bully. An everyday scenario played out at every break-time. Paddy Porter is an older boy and sensing the mismatch, he intervenes and settles the dispute. Just a compulsion to act and in doing so, Tom and Paddy's futures become fused. An innocuous incident between two strangers but one that will reconnect them some thirty years later and set in motion a chain of events that completes an...
The Ripple Effect
One town under siege . . . One batch of doughnuts . . . One ripple of resentment. Profit-hungry developers are swarming over Middleton, determined to see the local football ground turned into luxury flats. But they haven't counted on the spirited resistance of local baker, Bill Baxter, who vents his frustration at the developers' plans by neglecting to put jam into a batch of doughnuts. Unbeknown to Bill, a rogue jamless doughnut sets in train a ripple of irrational anger that grows, wave upon wave, until finally it threatens to swamp the entire nation, leaving careers ruined, fortunes won and Parliament in turmoil. But where will it end? And what will become of Bill and his beloved Middleton? Stand up comedian Dominic Holland delivers another slick slice of comedy that will have you roaring with laughter, rooting for the good guys and relegating the villains to the bottom of the table.
Open Links
18 short chapters, over 18 long holes of an extraordinary round of golf. A tale of the human spirit, resilience, and extraordinary feats we are all capable of. All profits to Anthony Nolan in their fight against blood cancer.
Dominion
'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the Year Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem ...
Only in America
How does a film script by an unknown writer get to be read by a Hollywood studio boss? What happens if he loves it? And what do his people do, if they have no idea who wrote it? Stuck in workaday London, rejected by the literary elite, wannabe screenwriter Milly has no idea of the pandemonium her script is causing Stateside. And so it falls to LA movie executive Mitch to cut through the Hollywood madness, save his own job, and rescue Milly from obscurity. All he has to do is find her. So begins a breathless romantic hunt, and a hilarious modern day fairytale from a sensational new voice in contemporary comic fiction.
