Tom Holland

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.

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.

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.

Books/Audio Books:

Fiction:
The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995)(published in the U.S. as Lord of the Dead)
Supping with Panthers (1996)(published in the U.S. as Slave of My Thirst)
Attis (1995)
Deliver Us from Evil (1997)
The Sleeper in the Sands (1998)
The Bonehunter (2001)
The Poison in the Blood (2006)

Non-Fiction:
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (2003)
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005)