Tom Holland (author)

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Tom Holland (born 1968) is an acclaimed British author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history.

Holland was born and brought up in Salisbury, England. He obtained a double first at Cambridge, and afterwards studied for a D.Phil. at Oxford, taking Lord Byron as his subject.

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 lives in London with his wife and two children.

Contents 1 Books 1.1 Series 1.2 Novels 1.3 Short fiction 1.4 Non-fiction 2 External links

[edit] Books

[edit] Series

• The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995), ISBN 0316912271 (published in the U.S. as Lord of the Dead)
• Supping with Panthers (1996), ISBN 0316876224 (published in the U.S. as Slave of My Thirst)

[edit] Novels

• Attis (1995), ISBN 0749002131
• Deliver Us from Evil (1997), ISBN 0316882488
• The Sleeper in the Sands (1998), ISBN 0316644803
• The Bonehunter (2001), ISBN 0316648191

[edit] Short fiction

• The Poison in the Blood (2006), ISBN 0349119643

[edit] Non-fiction

• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (2003), ISBN 0316861308
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005), ISBN 0316726648

[edit] External links

• Interview at infinity plus by David Mathew
• Interview at SF Site by Georges T. Dodds