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Holmes's first book, Status Quo and the Kangaroo, was published in hardback by Penguin May 2007 and has since been published in Australia, Canada, the US and India and has been translated into Russian. The paperback Rock Star Babylon, was published in the UK in September 2008. 2009 saw the publication of another book, The Now Show Book of World Records which Holmes co-wrote with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. He also co-wrote (with Mitch Benn) The History of the World Through Twitter described as "hundreds of characters from history tweeting each other in 140 characters or less - as if Twitter had existed since the dawn of time.". Both books were published in October 2009. A second Now Show book will be published in 2010.
He is also a Sunday Times columnist and has written for The Guardian, The Times and the Radio Times among others. He is also a travel writer for the Sunday Times.
Holmes also co-wrote Stephen Fry's script for the BAFTA Film Awards and has hosted the MOJO Awards and the Radio Production Awards.
He toured the UK in 2008/2009 reading from his book Rock Star Babylon (for which Stephen Fry voiced the footnotes) and in August 2009 played the Edinburgh Comedy Festival to nine star reviews, although these stars were fairly well split across various newspapers.
On 15 September 2010, Holmes, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.
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