Tom Holland, Author . Doubleday $27.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-385-52058-4
If Y2K proved anticlimactic, the Y1K crisis—apocalyptic expectations surrounding the year 1000—had a lasting impact, argues this far-ranging, over-reaching history of medieval Europe. Holland (Persian Fire
) surveys the two and a half...
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Tom Holland, Author . Doubleday $27.50 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-50313-6
After a palace coup demolished the reign of King Tarquin of Rome in 509 B.C., a republican government flourished, providing every person an opportunity to participate in political life in the name of liberty. As Holland, a novelist and adapter of...
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Tom Holland, Author . Doubleday $27.50 (418p) ISBN 978-0-385-51311-1
After chronicling the fall of the Roman Republic in Rubicon
, historian Holland turns his attention further back in time to 480 B.C., when the Greeks defended their city-states against the invading Persian empire, led by Xerxes. Classicists will...
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Tom Holland, Author Atria Books $23 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-54052-4
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the dinner tables of London, Holland conducts a research-laden, imaginary tour of the British Empire--of the living and undead--at the end of the 19th century. The cast includes a revivified Lord Byron (establis
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Tom Holland, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-53426-4
Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world's most formidable vampire. (Sept.)
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Tom Holland, Author, Dona Chernoff, Editor Pocket Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-53425-7
Lord Byron as a vampire? That notion may not explain the aberrant behavior of the much-revered Romantic poet, but it definitely provides a racy foundation for Holland's engaging and sophisticated debut novel. The story begins in London in the...
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Tom Holland. Basic, $32 (624p) ISBN 978-0-465-09350-2
Novelist, playwright, and historian Holland (Rubicon), whose scholarly pursuits include Greek, Islamic, and Roman history, brings all of that to bear in this cultural history of how “a cult inspired by the execution of an obscure criminal in a long-v
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Tom Holland. Basic, $32.50 (480p) ISBN 978-0-465-09353-3
Historian Holland (Dominion) provides a comprehensive chronicle of the latter half of the Pax Romana, a common shorthand for a long period of stability in the Western world from 27 BCE to 180 CE, when the Roman Empire ruled over a quarter of the...
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Tom Holland, illus. by Jason Cockcroft. Candlewick Studio, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5362-3416-9
In this epic tale, lavishly illustrated by Cockcroft (A Song of Sun and Sky), Holland (Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age) mixes reality and mythology to tell of the Persian Wars through the eyes of Gorgo, the eventual queen of Sparta who grew...
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