‘Why does the bird sing?’
Anthony De Mello, The Song of the Bird
the author
Jeremy Holt
Jeremy grew up in Durban, South Africa, during the turbulent, apartheid-era Sixties, and countercultural Seventies. For forty years, he has worked in various educational communities across the globe as a teacher, mentor, lecturer, sports-coach, residential leader, and consultant.
Apart from guarding against his life-narrative becoming an idiot’s tale, Jeremy nurtures a love of family, along with an admixture of literature, philosophy, writing, rugby, and swimming.
He is married to Anne, a theatre-nurse manager, who spent her youth in Salisbury, Rhodesia. They are based in Hidden Valley, north of Melbourne, Australia, where their search for meaning continues.
Jeremy’s debut novel, Everything That Stands, is the first book of a larger conceptual framework, The Baron Black Trilogy.
Jeremy has dedicated to donate 10% of every text sold to the John Bradburne Memorial Society’s important work at the Mutemwa Care Centre in Zimbabwe.
new release
Everything that Stands
Dare you push against the doors?
September 3, 1978.
At the height of the revolutionary war for Rhodesia, twin brothers face a harrowing ordeal when their passenger plane the Viscount Hunyani is struck down by a SAM-7 missile.
In escaping the wreckage, Baron and Blaise Black, co-incidental players in a conflict they neither desire, nor fully comprehend, witness a calculated act of brutality that sets them on a relentless and hazardous journey through unforgiving African bush.
The consciousness of the older twin becomes a prism through which the complexities of purpose, truth, and conscience are explored, against the backdrop of civilians forced to confront unbearable choices.
With this debut novel, the author invites readers to extend their search for meaning beyond the doors of the known, to the undiscovered country that beckons to us all.
the blog
Other writing
SYMMETRICAL ASYMMETRY
Exploring the paradoxes of existence through literature and philosophy, Jeremy H. invites you to delve into the symmetrical asymmetry of ‘Everything That Stands’ and join the conversation on metamodern aesthetics, theopoetics, culture, and meaning.
Discovering the Song Within
Everything That Stands is more than a story – it is my birdsong. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Revolutionary War for Rhodesia, it mirrors the interconnected complexities of the human soul. Within its pages dwell characters who grapple with their truths, navigate the turbulent waters of identity and meaning, and summon the courage to stand against or swim with the tide.
SYMMETRICAL ASYMMETRY
Exploring the paradoxes of existence through literature and philosophy, Jeremy H. invites you to delve into the symmetrical asymmetry of ‘Everything That Stands’ and join the conversation on metamodern aesthetics, theopoetics, culture, and meaning.
Discovering the Song Within
Everything That Stands is more than a story – it is my birdsong. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Revolutionary War for Rhodesia, it mirrors the interconnected complexities of the human soul. Within its pages dwell characters who grapple with their truths, navigate the turbulent waters of identity and meaning, and summon the courage to stand against or swim with the tide.
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