Holden Sheppard

I personally love books that make me feel, I'm not gonna say I'm not intelligent, but that's really insulting to myself, but I'm really dumb.

but i i don't i don't respond well to um maybe intellectual writing like some people love to be stimulated intellectually by their literature i love to feel and this is one of those books that really makes you feel for the characters for yourself it makes you think about shame and it's got some nice sex in it as well sorry it's got some nice sex in it it does there's some good uh nice nicely written scenes there yes um we're at the library case

I'm still amazed... My God, Holden, what have you started?

I'm still amazed at how much sex is actually in my book.

There's a lot.

And I figured the publishers would be like, you can't do that, it's a young adult book.

They let it happen.

The one I've just read very recently, I read it on my honeymoon and it just broke me, was Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherston.

So this is actually, it's going to sound like I'm very one note and I have no other interest in literature.

It's not true.

But it is about, it's about two soldiers in World War II, Aussie soldiers.

And they met, they knew each other when they were kids and then they encounter each other in the North Africa campaign.

And it's a love story.

So actually they fall in love while they're in there and it's set against the backdrop of World War II.

Very similar kind of themes in terms of not being able to say things, but it's less probably tragic and heartbreaking and it's more tender and loving.

It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Oh, really?

It's amazing.

The writing is beautiful.

And Nigel's amazing as an author.