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Tom Holland

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 04 1968

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Tom Holland is an English historian and author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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.

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 is on the committee of the Society of Authors and the Classical Association.

Tom Holland

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 04 1968

Website: Go to Website

Twitter: Go to Twitter Account

Tom Holland is an English historian and author. He has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, on many subjects from vampires to history.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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.

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 is on the committee of the Society of Authors and the Classical Association.

Books from Tom Holland

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

4.1/5 ( ratings)

In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Lord of the Dead

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Æthelstan: The Making of England

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Madness of Cambyses

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Slave of My Thirst

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Novels of Alexander Great: Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy. Funeral Games

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Sleeper in the Sands

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Vampyre

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Persian Boy

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Attis

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Beter dan fictie: de mooiste geschiedenisverhalen

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Nightwatchman (The Wisden Cricket Quarterly #1)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Deliver Us From Evil

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Bone Hunter

2.5/5 ( ratings)

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