Tom Holland (author)

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Tom Holland. Photo by Camilla Broadbent.
Tom Holland. Photo by Camilla Broadbent.
Cover of Holland's book Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Cover of Holland's book Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

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 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.

Rubicon and Persian Fire are historical classics.

He lives in London with his wife and two children.


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  • 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)

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[edit] Short fiction

[edit] Non-fiction

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