Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs
by Verity Holloway
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Saint Silvan is a miracle. Since he died two-thousand years ago, not one atom of his beautiful body has succumbed to the natural decay of the flesh. But the planet is not so fortunate. In a small church in Dubrovnik, Silvan lies in state for the veneration of the faithful while nation after nation succumbs to the rising tides of climate change. When an immortal dandy calling himself Az offers Silvan a job boosting humanity's morale by prettifying the revered dead, Silvan is eager to offer show more his talents, unaware that someone may be playing him for a holy fool. From Imperial Rome to Soviet Russia, Silvan crosses the worlds of the living and the dead to uncover his past and divine his future in a dying world. This is a story of magic and makeup, crypts and clownfish. show lessTags
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Verity Holloway was born in Gibraltar in 1986 to a naval family and spent much of her early life following her warrant officer father around the world. By the age of seventeen, she was already being recognised as a gifted poet. Her speculative fiction and poetry is inspired by all things medical, religious and historical. She published her first show more chapbook, Contradictions, in 2012. In 2007, she gamed a First Class BA in literature and Creative Writing from Anglia Ruskin University, going on to earn a Distinction Masters in Literature with special focus on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life. She now writes features and reviews For The Pre-Raphaelite Society. Her short story Cremating Imelda was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An early extract of her magical realist novel, Pseudotooth, won the Norwich Writers' Centre Escalator 'Award and has since been longlisted for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize. Her novella Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs was published in 2015. Verify regularly blogs about history on her website veriryholloway.com show less
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