Reviews

PRAISE FOR LAIRIES

“A helter-skelter whodunnit […] delivering an insider critique of masculine bravado” – The Observer

“Inventive, well-written and absolutely bloody brutal” – Northern Soul

“Hollyman deftly portrays the realities of some of society’s most disenfranchised young men… never reads as a public service announcement but rather a direct indictment on how wider society has let so many young men fall through the cracks” – The Skinny

“Like Anthony Burgess and Chuck Palahniuk went on a pub crawl in twenty-first-century Britain, got out of their heads and decided to write a book together. Steve Hollyman’s debut is extraordinarily ambitious, sophisticated and compelling” – Nicholas Royle

“A bedtime story for a country in a coma. Brutal. Brilliant” – Joe Stretch

“A brilliant book. Vital and violent” – Heidi James

“A smashmouth look at the wild west nightlife of the early noughties, where you expected to get a smack as much as you did a kebab. While Lairies pulls no punches with violence, it brings the same ruthlessness to the question of why, and what happens after the adrenaline fades” – Ben Halls

“A remarkable novel that leaves the reader with little hope for mankind but plenty of admiration for its author” – Graeme Shimmin

“Lairies is an absolute triumph” – Kerry Hadley-Pryce

“Be prepared to ache. A tale of the unavoidable, always unwavering in its delivery. One to bruise the heart” – Stephen McGeagh

“Steve Hollyman is a new and forceful voice” – James Sorel-Cameron

“So brutal it will make you flinch; so beautifully written you will not be able to look away” – Anstey Harris

PRAISE FOR ESC&CTRL

“Masterful and worked through with copious and ebullient invention without seeming overworked … an immaculate piece of work I wholeheartedly wish I’d written myself” – Sam North

[A] metametametafictional mind-bender… like Robert Anton Wilson and Bret Easton Ellis smashing out an internet noir thriller at the end of a Baudrillard binge” – Stu Hennigan, Lunate Books of the Year