Thomas Holland FRSL (born 5 January 1968) is an English author and popular historian who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history, and the origins of Islam.
He has worked with the BBC to create and host historical television documentaries and presented the radio series Making History. He co-hosts The Rest is History podcast.
Books in order of publication:
The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (published in the U.S. as Lord of the Dead) – 1995
Attis – 1995
Supping with Panthers (published in the U.S. as Slave of My Thirst) – 1996
Deliver Us From Evil – 1997
The Importance of Being Frank – 1997
The Sleeper in the Sands – 1998
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic – 2003
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West – 2005
The Poison in the Blood – 2006
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom – 2008
In the Shadow of the Sword – 2012
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar – 2015
Athelstan: The Making of England – 2016
Æthelflæd: England’s Forgotten Founder – 2019
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (published as Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World – 2019
Bonehunter – 2021
Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age – 2023
The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars – 2023
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