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Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. Nothing But Blue Skies.

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines; interests which led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. Now a full-time writer, he lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife, one daughter and the unmistakable scent of blood, wafting in on the breeze from the local meat-packing plant. For more infromation about Tom Holt visit ww. om-holt.

In Nothing But Blue Skies, British comic writer Tom Holt takes aim at one of Great Britain's least appealing qualities .

In Nothing But Blue Skies, British comic writer Tom Holt takes aim at one of Great Britain's least appealing qualities, the one that occupies the position of second worst, right behind its cuisine: its weather. Most of its residence attribute the oft inclement weather on natural meteorological patterns, but a few of the weathermen have suspected for a long time that there's a much more sinister cause behind it: Chinese weather dragons. The plot tends to get a little shallow in parts and none of the characters were that interesting for me, but Holt's humor redeemed the book as a whole for me and made it worth reading.

Sorry, had you just eaten? Let’s try a gentler approach. Imagine a place where it rains all the time

Sorry, had you just eaten? Let’s try a gentler approach. Imagine a place where it rains all the time he window for a second and a half, where the current in the gutters is strong enough to turn hydroelectric turbines, where they thought Waterworld was a documentary, where Noah fortunately didn’t send out his doves (or he’d be sailing. Yet), where even the privatised water companies can only manage to cause a hosepipe ban one year in three. There’s another place like that.

Nothing But Blue Skies book. Tom Holt is darker and not as laugh-out-loud as Pratchett, but there is a strong sense of irony that can make his stories amusing. I haven't read a Tom Holt book yet that I didn't like. Jan 20, 2015 Michael rated it it was amazing.

Nothing But Blue Skies is a humorous fantasy novel by English author Tom Holt. It was first published in the UK by Orbit Books in 2001. Karen is a Chinese dragon with weather powers, who falls in love with a human and disguises herself as a human so that they can be together; when her father, the adjutant-general to the Dragon King of the North West, comes looking for her, things become much more complicated.

Nothing but blue skies. CHAPTER ONE. Four men in dark grey suits and black sunglasses climbed out of a black, fat-wheeled Transit and slammed the doors. The noise woke up the proprietor, who staggered out of the little shed that served him as an office. Mr Denby?' said one of the strangers. The proprietor shook his head. No,' he added, in case of doubt. But this is Denby's boatyard, right?'

Nothing But Blue Skies (Paperback). Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard.

Nothing But Blue Skies (Paperback). Wells & Co. Series The Portable Door In Your Dreams Earth, Air, Fire and Custard You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps The Better Mousetrap May Contain Traces of Magic Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages. YouSpace Series Doughnut When It's A Jar The Outsorcerer's Apprentice The Good, the Bad and the Smug.

Books by Tom Holt: Walled Orchard Series Goatsong The Walled Orchard.

There are very many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, dull, or both – but all of them are wrong, especially the scientific ones. The real reason why it rains perpetually from January 1st to December 31st (incl. is, of course, irritable Chinese Water Dragons. Karen is one such legendary creature. Ancient, noble, near-indestructible and, for a number of wildly improbable reasons, working as an estate-agent, Karen is irritable quite a lot of the time. Many of these reasons are either scientific, dull, or both - but all of them are wrong, especially the scientific ones.