Tom Holland (author)
Tom Holland (born 1968) is a British novelist.
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[edit] Biography
Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. His younger brother is the historian and novelist James Holland.[1] He obtained a double First in English at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterwards studied shortly for a DPhil at Oxford, taking Byron as his subject, before interrupting his postgraduate studies and moving to London.[2]
He has adapted the works of Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio 4. His novels, including Attis and Deliver Us From Evil, mostly have a supernatural and horror element as well as being set in the past. He is also the author of three highly praised works of history, Rubicon, Persian Fire and Millennium.[3]
He is the Chair of the Society of Authors.
He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
[edit] Books
[edit] Series
- The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995), ISBN 0-316-91227-1 (published in the U.S. as Lord of the Dead)
- Supping with Panthers (1996), ISBN 0-316-87622-4 (published in the U.S. as Slave of My Thirst)
[edit] Novels
- Attis (1995), ISBN 0-7490-0213-1
- The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995), ISBN 0-7515-1361-X
- Deliver Us from Evil (1997), ISBN 0-316-88248-8
- The Sleeper in the Sands (1998), ISBN 0-316-64480-3
- The Bonehunter (2001), ISBN 0-316-64819-1
[edit] Short fiction
- The Poison in the Blood (2006), ISBN 0-349-11964-3
[edit] Plays
- The Importance of Being Frank (first professional performance 1991, text published 1997), ISBN 0-9530587-1-9
[edit] Non-fiction
- Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (2003), ISBN 0-316-86130-8
- Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005), ISBN 0-316-72664-8
- Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (2008), ISBN 978-0-316-73245-1
- "The Persian Way of War", essay in Lapham's Quarterly, Winter 2008.
- The Shadow of the Sword: Global Empire and the Rise of a New Religion (2011), ISBN 1408700077
