My Tom Holt Page

Tom Holt has written about two dozen books, most that can be called historical fantasies. These include such titles as, "Who's Afraid of Beowulf" "Expecting Someone Taller" and his forthcoming book, "Falling Sideways " all of which are available from booksellers in England. Only a few of his books have been printed in the U.S. More's the pity. These are very good books!

Here is a complete listing of his titles that I currently own:

I suggest that you visit either amazon.com (UK) or The Internet Bookshop (UK). Both allow on-line ordering with a credit card. Both get you the books in as fast as three days, but generally in a week or so. Their prices are listed in British £ (pounds Sterling) but you can compute the US costs by using this simple £ to $ calculator:

First of 3 published in the US What might happen if Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs was real? And what might happen if some guy just happens to run down the old god—disguised as some type of animal—who had stolen the Ring? Malcom Fisher just ran down a badger who gives him a strange sort of twisty, wiry crown thing, even though the badger was really expecting to be run over by someone taller.	Another US-published book After being awakened from their long sleep by an archaeologist, a Norse King and his crew take to the high seas, with the female archaeologist on a voyage to satisfy a twelve-thousand year old grudge. The 20th century has plenty of monsters to slay, including those manifesting themselves as new technologies such as elevators and nuclear power.	The last US-published book After circling the globe in their ship for over 400 years, Captain Vanderdecker and his crew are finding the immortality elixir they accidentally drank is becoming a bit of an inconvenience. And they would love to stay on land and spend all the money their insurance policies have accumulated, but they can't. They're getting so bored that some of the crew have taken to committing suicide every day or so just to relieve the monotony.
Guy Goodlet is worried. He's worried that he has just found himself in the Middle Ages instead of 1943. He is also worried because he finds himself in the company of John de Nesle, the greatest performer of all times. And they are right in the middle of The Crusades, looking for Richard the Lion Hearted who seems to have disappeared.	Bet you thought that the Sun just came up all on its own. Nope. All is not well... the Sun rises late and almost breaks down; the moon is about to be scrapped to be replaced by a newer model. And the god-like beings responsible for all this are tired of the bother and want mortals to take over the running of things.	Holt revisits the Holy Grail saga. Fifteen hundred years have passed and the Grail is still missing. The Knights, still alive, have decided to be good and done with the whole quest thing. They're tired and want to do other things, like delivering pizzas. Will the good Prince wake up in time to overthrow the dark powers and find out exactly what the heck the Grail is?
It's easy to become a bit messed up if your mother is a typical English housewife, but your father is the supreme being. And it's a real bother when you must slay monsters, retrieve golden fleeces from fire-breathing dragons and then clean up your room before mom will let you watch Star Trek.	Management is trying to do a leverage buyout of Hell. But everything isn't going very well. Mad Dog Lundqvist, the foremost bounty hunter of all times is on the case, searching for the one person who is causing all the trouble, Faust (alias Lucky George Faustus).	Jane just inherited a Genie. A Genie with a bad attitude who is willing to bend the rules of master/Genie relationships in almost any way to avoid going back into the lamp. But all Jane want to do is get rid of him and get back to her boring life.
Immortal life for Gods can be a real drag, even when your declining eons are spent at Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for Retired Deities. First there are problems caused by Thor, Odin and Frey... then there's that nasty business with Osiris.	Jane is writing a novel. Should be easy, The only problem is that her main character, her hero, is writing back on her computer screen. There are problems happening in the story that only the hero should be working on. The last thing she should do is the enter the story. Right?	Bianca Wilson is a sculptress. She has been commissioned to create a Saint George and the Dragon. The problem is that the real Saint George inhabits the Dragon statue and the Dragon gets stuck with the George statue. Since he is the very last dragon, he really want to have revenge on George who slew all his fellow dragons hundreds of years ago.
Akram the Terrible, the most feared thief in all of Baghdad is getting tired of the 40 Thieves story. He is an integral part of it and doesn't like getting stuck in a large vase with boiling oil being poured over him. He escapes the story to modern times, only to find that his leaving the story has caused all of the other characters to be released. And it's effecting other stories as well. Worse yet, his old nemesis turns out to be a dentist, and Akram has this terrible toothache...	Things are getting a bit cocked up now that the Supreme Being has decided to take a few days off and leave running everything to his young son; you know, the younger brother of Jesus Christ?. There was that accident between the welding machine and man's immortal soul. And the lemming thing...	This is one Tom Holt book that I must have missed when it came out because I only found this cover shot in the Amazon.co.uk website. I will be ordering it and reading it before the end of 2001.
Take practically every storybook character, have Snow White living with sever samaurai warriors, break a magic mirror so that you need to use a bucket of moderately magical water in order to play the old, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall..." game, and you get to the point where a spaghetti-western Dwarf With No Name is hired to save the three little pigs from the big bad wolf by recruiting a Magnificent Seven Dwarves' defence team, starting with Rumpelstiltskin and Tom Thumb but goingdownhill from there. If you enjoyed the movie SHREK, then you will want to read another, earlier, story about your favorite characters is very strange circumstances.	In Valhall, warriors drink, eat, laugh at each other and are reborn the next day--the Viking idea of fun. But Odin, the head God, has made changes... For Howard the pretend Viking, who joined the War-Band of Sigurd Bloodtooth in hope of getting girls, Valhalla is a gory shoot-up with modern weapons. For older killers like Attila, Napoleon and Hitler it's like the thrilling suspense of watching paint dry. Literally! For Lin Kortright, theatrical agent to the gods, it's endless gruelling auditions for the part of Lin Kortright. Odin gives everyone personalised Valhallas that nastily twist their own wish-fulfilment dreams. This is a very funny twist on the Norse legend of Valhala.	Karen is a dragon. But she has taken human form in order to be with her love, a real estate agent. And to escape her family. Now she and other dragons are being tricked into turning into goldfish and trapped by an evil weather reporter out for revenge. But the kidnappers fall foul of imperialist conspirators who reckon it is Britain's weather that made it great, inspiring them to go out and conquer all those hot places. Behind this outfit are the even more megalomaniac schemes of an Aussie media baron who for excellent legal reasons isn't called Murdoch. Learn about Britain's real state religion, featuring human sacrifices to the Queen, and the North Welsh cult which believes that when they die, they'll be reunited on the other side with all the used paper kleenexes.
The latest novel from Tom. It appeared, as if my magic, in my mail box in January, 2002
Tom Holt has also written books that are not part of his odd view on life. Among them are several historical novels. Here are the covers of the pair I currently have.   This historical novel takes as its basis the fact that 2776 years ago a group of men ran between two piles of stones, and invented history. If, that is, history can be believed. All we know now is the name of the man who won the race in the first ever Olympic Games in 776 BC. The story of two men, one of whom conquered empires, one of whom tackled the drainage problems of a small village. Their paths crossed only briefly, but the encounter changed their lives forever. The first was Alexander the Great, the second, Euxenus, philosopher and tutor to the young Alexander.   All covers are and remain the copyright of the artist or artists who originally gave them life. Unless, that is, some publisher paid them a few pounds more to buy the rights away. I have not obtained permission to replicate them, but hope that these fine individuals and international conglomerates recognize that I am just trying to help promote interest (and sales) in their books