Tom Holland (author)
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Tom Holland (born 1968) is a British author of fiction and non-fiction on subjects from vampires to history.
Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. He obtained a double first in English and Latin at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterwards studied shortly for a PhD at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject, before interrupting the post graduate studies and moving to London.[1]
He has adapted 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.
He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
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[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.
