That feeling of accomplishment upon reading a book…

But some books are hard to read. Pages and pages of words. So many words and often, difficult-to-understand prose and miserable, mawkish storylines.

A searing study of social deprivation in a post-industrial mill town, with a dollop of alcoholism, domestic violence and incest...

Anyone for poverty porn?

No, me neither.

But who has time to read these days? Too easily distracted by screens and beholden to algorithms designed by a handful of nerds who were bullied at school and now live like Bond villains: they have all the money, control the world and everyone in it.

Holland’s Shorts is unashamedly feel-happy. Four short stories to make readers smile.

Confronted by the 24-hour news cycle of doom. Environmentalists predict the end of the world, and if the floods and the fires don’t get us, then World War 3 will. Little wonder so many people are depressed, and why Big Pharma is… well, so Big.