Tom Holt

For the Internet Radio DJ of the same name, see Off The Chart Radio.

Tom Holt (born Thomas Charles Louis Holt September 13, 1961) is an author of parodic mythopoeic fiction. He is the son of novelist Hazel Holt. He was educated at Westminster and Wadham College, Oxford.

Holt's "straight" historical novels, notably The Walled Orchard, have been well-received.^[1]

Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write I, Margaret, an unauthorized biography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989.

[edit] Novels

Expecting Someone Taller (1987)
- Based on Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)
- Based on Norse mythology
Flying Dutch (1991)
- Based on the Flying Dutchman
Ye Gods! (1992)
- Based on Greek mythology (especially Heracles)
Overtime (1993)
- Based on the story of Blondel
Here Comes the Sun (1993)
- Loosely based on the concept of the celestial bureaucracy, reinterpreted as the British civil service
Grailblazers (1994)
- Based on Arthurian romance and the quest for the Holy Grail
Faust Among Equals (1994)
- Based on the story of Faust
Odds & Gods (1995)
- Features assorted pantheons
Djinn Rummy (1995)
- Based on the Arabian Nights
My Hero (1996)
- Pastiche of various genres. One of the main characters is Hamlet
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
- Based on the legend of St George
Open Sesame (1997)
- Based on the Arabian Nights
Wish You Were Here (1998)
Only Human (1999)
Snow White and the Seven Samurai (1999)
- Based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
Valhalla (2000)
- Based on Norse mythology
Nothing But Blue Skies (2001)
- Features Chinese dragons
Falling Sideways (2002)
Little People (2002)
- Based on faery legends
Featuring J.W. Wells, the magic firm from The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan
- The Portable Door (2003)
- In Your Dreams (2004)
- Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard (2005)
- You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps (2006)

The Walled Orchard (1997)
- originally published in two parts, as Goatsong (1989) and The Walled Orchard (1990)
Alexander At The World's End (1999)
Olympiad (2000)
Song for Nero (2003)
Meadowland (2005)

continuations of E. F. Benson's "Lucia" series set in Tilling
- Lucia In Wartime (1985) fiction
- Lucia Triumphant (1986) fiction

"I am the very model of a USENET Personality" — a well-known (on the internet) parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the very model of a modern Major-General".