In 2013, after Dan Richards published his first book (coauthored with Robert Macfarlane), Holloway soon led the best established book review of the UK, the bestseller-list of the Sunday Times.
Richards published with Faber & Faber a new book in 2016, inspired by the memoirs of his great-great aunt, Dorothy Pilley.
The backdrop of a substantial part of Climbing Days are mountain landscapes. On page 158 Richards describes the picturesque scenery in the Montserrat: