Tom Holt (Thomas Charles Louis Holt) is a British novelist. He was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London. Holt's works include mythopoeic novels which parody or take as their theme various aspects of mythology, history or literature and develop them in new and often humorous ways. He has also produced a number of "straight" historical novels writing as Thomas Holt and fantasy novels writing as K.J. Parker.
Series
Books
Little People
1966
Wish You Were Here
1998
When It's A Jar
2013
Djinn Rummy
1995
Ye Gods!
1992
Valhalla
2000
Falling Sideways
2002
Lucia in Wartime
1985
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps
2006
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
2005
Meadowland
2005
A Song for Nero
2004
Flying Dutch
1991
Blonde Bombshell
2010
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
2017
May Contain Traces of Magic
2009
The Portable Door
2003
The Walled Orchard
1772
Goatsong
A Novel of Ancient Athens
1989
Only Human
1999
Faust Among Equals
1994
The Better Mousetrap
2008
Grailblazers
1994
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
1999
Lucia Triumphant
1986
Here Comes the Sun
1993
Open Sesame
1997
Olympiad
2000
Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
1988
The Divine Comedies
2002
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages
2011
The Good, the Bad and the Smug
2015
Fishy Wishes
Wish You Were Here and Djinn Rummy
2004
My Hero
1996
Paint Your Dragon
1996
Someone Like Me
2006
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
2014
Saints and Sinners
Paint Your Dragon and Open Sesame
2004
Overtime
1993
Barking
2007
Dead Funny
Tom Holt
2000
In Your Dreams
2004
Doughnut
2013
Odds and Gods
1995
Alexander at the World's End
1999
Nothing But Blue Skies
2001
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy
1998
Thinking Historically
Narrative, Imagination, And Understanding
1990
Expecting Someone Taller
1987
The Eight Reindeer of the Apocalypse
2023
An Orc on the Wild Side
2019
