Tom Holt

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1986
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Walled Orchard

1 - Goatsong (Jan-1990)
2 - The Walled Orchard (May-1991)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Samurai (Jun-2000)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • Lucia in Wartime

    "Across the Channel, the battle rages ... On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought-the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia, with her superior style, timeless elegance, occasiona...

  • Expecting Someone Taller

    All Malcolm Fisher did was run over a badger. Unfortunately the badger turned out to be Ingolf, last of the giants. With his dying breath he reluctantly gave Malcolm two gifts of power and made him ruler of the world....

  • Lucia Triumphant

    "In postwar Britain, the quaint town of Tilling is feeling the pull of both the modern world and its Norman past. Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, in yet another bid to wrest power back from her social rival Lucia Pillson-now the town''s mayor-purchases a motor...

  • Who's Afraid of Beowulf?

    Digging up the remains of an ancient band of Vikings, archaeologist Hildy is astounded when they rise from the dead, bearing an appetite for seagulls, a twelve-thousand-year-old grudge, and a thirst for war. ...

  • Goatsong

    Walled Orchard - 1

    Eupolis of Pallene, goatherd, nascent playwright, and contemporary of Pericles, Sophocles, Euripides, and Socrates, spends his days in the company of goats composing comic verse, in a tale of Athens at the height of its glory...

  • The Walled Orchard

    Walled Orchard - 2

    'Read THE WALLED ORCHARD so you can tell your descendants, 'I was there when the historical novel started holding its head up with the rest of literature''. - WASHINGTON POST'This book is a hilarious yet well-researached historical novel.' - HISTORIC...

  • Flying Dutch

    Think Life's Too Much? Try Flying Dutch! Life can get a bit tiresome after, oh, 400 years or so...Just ask Dutch sea captain Vanderdecker and his crew. They've been circling the globe ever since the immortality elixir they mistook for a beer chase...

  • Ye Gods!

    Being a hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mom's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to ...

  • Alexander at the World's End

    'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity' - NEW YORK TIMESWhen his father dies, and h...



  • Olympiad

    'Wry and droll, fascinating and funny, by bringing us Alexander's nether parts this novel gives momentous matters unforgettable life' - Ross Leckie'Witty, ironic ... and achieves a deeply felt authenticity' - New York TimesTwo thousand, seven hundred...

  • Only Human

    Something is about to go wrong. Very wrong. What do you expect if the Supreme Being decides to get away from it all for a few days, leaving his naturally inquisitive son to look after the cosmic balance of things? A minor hiccup with a human soul and...

  • Wish You Were Here

    Visitors flock to an Iowa lake where a ghost allegedly will offer up your heart’s desire in this contemporary comic fantasy.It was a busy day on Lake Chicopee, where an eclectic bunch of sightseers and tourists had the strange local residents rubbi...

  • Snow White and the Seven Samurai

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    Once upon a time, everything was fine. Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and the wicked queen plotted murder most foul. But the humans hacked, cried havoc, shut...

  • Expecting Beowulf

  • Valhalla

    As everyone knows, when great warriors die, their reward is eternal life in Odin's bijou little residence known as Valhalla. But Valhalla has just changed. It has grown. It has diversified. Just like any corporation, the Valhalla Group has had to ada...

  • Falling Sideways

    From the moment Homo Sapiens descended from the trees, possibly onto their heads, humanity has striven towards civilization. Fire. The Wheel. Running Away from furry things with more teeth than one might reasonably expect-all are testament to man's u...

  • Nothing But Blue Skies

    Trouble arises for a dragon living as a British real estate agent when her father arrives for a visit in this humorous fantasy.There are many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these rea...

  • Divine Comedies

    'Uniquely twisted ... cracking gags' - Rob Grant

    'Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing' - Mail On Sunday

    HERE COMES THE SUN
    The sun rises late, dirty and so badly in need of a service it'...

  • Little People

    "I was eight years old when I saw my first elf." And for unlikely hero Michael it was his last. Cruella, Michael's unfortunately named girlfriend, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people. But the problem is that they won't leave him a...



  • For Two Nights Only

    Two of Tom Holt's best-loved tales are brought together in this omnibus edition. In Overtime, it all started for Guy Goodlet somewhere over Caen. One moment he was heading for the relative safety of the coast, aware that fuel was low and that the Mos...

  • The Portable Door

    THE PORTABLE DOOR is the first novel set in the magical offices of J. W. Wells. Now a majorly fantastical movie starring Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz, and Miranda Otto.   “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores...

  • In Your Dreams

    A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto.   “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.†-- ...

  • The Second Tom Holt Omnibus

    This omnibus brings together two of Tom Holt's best-loved stories. In My Hero, Jane thinks writing novels is a piece of cake. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. The one thing she should not do is go into the b...

  • Dead Funny

    FLYING DUTCH - It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little swig from the wrong bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting around the world with your similarly immortal crew. Litt...

  • Saints and Sinners

    PAINT YOUR DRAGON - The cosmic battle between Good and Evil ... But suppose Evil threw the fight? And suppose Good cheated? When sculptress Bianca's recreation of St. George and his scaly chum gets a bit too life-like it opens up a whole new can o...

  • Tall Stories

    Tall Stories is another omnibus containing two of Tom Holt's beloved comic fantasies. In Expecting Someone Taller, all he did was run over a badger -- sad, but hardly catastrophic. But it wasn’t Malcolm fisher’s day, for the badger turned o...

  • Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

     A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto. “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.†-- C...

  • Someone Like Me

    In a world torn apart by hatred and fear, only the strongest will survive… Short, fast-paced, and priced to go, this futuristic thriller is Tom Holt at his most compulsively readable. "There was one lying in the road when I got there. She was dead....

  • You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps

     A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto.   “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.â€...



  • Barking

    Duncan's boss doesn't think he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But when his best friend from school barges his way back into Duncan's life, along with a full supporting cast of lawyers, ex-wives, zombie...

  • The Better Mousetrap

    A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto. “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.†-- Christo...

  • May Contain Traces of Magic

    A novel set in the magical offices of The Portable Door, now a majorly fantastical film starring Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto.   “Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.†-- ...

  • Blonde Bombshell

    The year is 2017. Lucy Pavlov is the CEO of PavSoft Industries, home of a revolutionary operating system that every computer in the world runs on. Her personal wealth is immeasurable, her intelligence is unfathomable, and she's been voted World's Mos...

  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages

    Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress ...

  • Djinn Rummy

    When Kayaguchiya Integrated Circuits III, a genie, is released from the aspirin bottle he's been stuck in for 14 years, there's bound to be trouble. Jane had wanted to end her life in peace, but now she's got a genie, things look up - until the apoca...

  • Faust Among Equals

    The management buy-out of Hell wasn't going quite as well as had been hoped. For a start, there had been that nasty business with the perjurors, and then came the news that the Most Wanted Man in History had escaped, and all just as the plans for the...

  • Grailblazers

    Fifteen hundred years have passed and the Holy Grail is still missing, presumed ineffable. The knights have dumped the quest and now deliver pizzas, while the sinister financial services of the lost kingdom of Atlantis threatens the universe with fis...

  • Here Comes the Sun

    All is not well with the universe - cutbacks have taken their toll, and the sun is dirty and late, thanks to being 30 billion miles overdue on its next service. None of the committees can agree on anything, and extreme measures seem called for. ...

  • My Hero

    This is the story of Jane who finds the novel she is working on starts to write back. She's already realized novel writing isn't such a piece of cake after all, and the world of fiction is a far more complicated place than she ever imagined. ...



  • Odds and Gods

    This is a comedy set in the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Wagner got it wrong. The Twilight of the Gods isn't really that cataclysmic. After all, there's a comfy chair, a welcoming fire and three meals a day. ...

  • Open Sesame

    There was something wrong! Just as the boiling water was about to be poured on his head and the man with the red book appeared and his life flashed before his eyes, Akram the Terrible, the most feared thief in Baghdad, knew this had happened before. ...

  • Overtime

    Guy is a Mosquito pilot in World War II. He is surprised when his dead co-pilot apparently starts speaking to him as they are flying over Northern France. And before you can say "Bomber Harris", Guy finds himself caught up in time and travel, a searc...

  • Paint Your Dragon

    Sculptress Bianca Wilson is a living legend. St. George is also a legend, but not living. However, when Bianca's sculpture of the patron saint and his scaly chum gets a bit too lifelike, it opens up a new can of wyrms. The dragon knows that in the ba...

  • Doughnut

    The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate ac...

  • When It's a Jar

    Maurice has just killed a dragon with a bread knife. And had his destiny foretold... and had his true love spirited away. That's precisely the sort of stuff that'd bring out the latent heroism in anyone. Unfortunately, Maurice is pretty sure he hasn'...

  • The Outsorcerer's Apprentice

    A happy workforce, it is said, is a productive workforce. Mmmm. Try telling that to an army of belligerent goblins. Or the Big Bad Wolf. Or a professional dragons layer. Who is looking after their well-being? Who gives a damn about their intole...

  • The Good, the Bad and the Smug

    New Evil. Same as the Old Evil, but with better PR. Mordak isn't bad, as far as goblin kings go, but when someone, or something, starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms it puts his rule into serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms r...

  • The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

    When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on al...

  • An Orc on the Wild Side

    An Orc on the Wild Side is the latest comic masterpiece from one of the funniest writers in fantasy. Winter is coming, so why not get away from it all? Being the Dark Lord and Prince of Evil is not as much fun as it sounds, particularly if you ...



  • The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse

    Tom Holt’s brilliantly funny new novel set in the world of The Portable Door (now a delightful movie starring Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, and Christoph Waltz). The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson can help with any met...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tom Holt has published 50 books.

Tom Holt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Tom Holt, Lucia in Wartime, was published in May 1986.

Yes. Tom Holt has 1 series.
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