Dynasty continues where Rubicon ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman emperors-from the rise of Augustus to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history features five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) emperors-Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition, treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, and decadence-the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.

Product Description: Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with "Rubicon" his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic with "Dynasty," a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors...read more

Product Description: In this vigorously argued commentary Holland has produced a clearer and simpler reworking of his earlier scholarly work 'The Divine Marriage' in order to engage with the less expert audience. In this highly readable analysis, Tom Holland asks the reader to rethink familiar passages in Paul's Letter to the Romans in fresh ways...read more

Product Description: It's race day and you have your quick-closure running shoes, sleek suits, bikes, goggles, and watches, but if you haven't been training with the proper nutrition, you'll be left in the dust in the third mile. Enter Swim, Bike, Run--Eat to guide you from day one of training to the finish line and help your body perform at it's peak of fitness...read more

Product Description: HardCover. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Pages: 880 Language: English The Histories of Herodotus. completed in the second half of the 5th century BC. is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing...read more

Product Description: Synopsis: I. Howard Marshall described Tom Holland's groundbreaking Contours of Pauline Theology as a "remarkably fresh and creative study which makes one rethink familiar passages in new ways," while Anthony Thiselton remarked that "many of its arguments offer corrections to widespread misunderstandings of Paul...read more

Set in the late 1880s, this novel meshes fact with fiction as Jack Eliot returns to the slums of Whitechapel after making a disturbing discovery in India. When the wife of a missing friend enlists his investigative help, Jack becomes drawn into a world of dark passions and decadence.

Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughn is the son of a Parliamentary officer, investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals. Led along a dark path to vampirism and beyond, he attempts to fight an evil killer.

'L'an mil'; thus has this century been condemned by past medieval scholars, a cautiously-named and intimidating phrase describing the complex struggles of belief, hope, despair and power that frustrated and incited the rulers of this century. Millenium guides us through a time overcast by the anticipation of the apocalypse, the return of Christ or the coming of Antichrist, by realization and denial, and by the defining of the boundaries between heaven and earth and their according division between 'the hallowed authority of pontiffs and the power of kings'. Millenium takes us 'from the crucifixion to the First Crusade, and from the glitter of Constantinople to the bleak shores of Canada. It was the age of Otto the Great and William the Conqueror, of caliphs and Viking sea-kings, of hermits, monks and serfs. It witnessed the spread of castles, the invention of knighthood, and the founding of a papal monarchy and the emergence of Western Europe for the first time as a distinctive and expansionist power.' Yet again, this award-winning author's refreshing, animated and compelling narrative provides an engaging and insightful take on the events and concerns surrounding the foundation of the modern West.

Product Description: The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall...read more

Product Description: A masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of perhaps the greatest civilization ever and the events and people that led to its transformation from a republic to an empire.On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, rode with his closest aides towards a river named the Rubicon, which marked the line of the frontier with Italy...read more

An account of the clash between powerful civilizations describes the struggle between the Persians and the Greeks in 480 BC and assesses the implications of that war on the history of the West in light of the Greek victory at Salamis.

* 'The Secret History of Lord Byron' - a chilling and utterly compelling gothic fantasy

A defintive account of the clash between two powerful and influential civilizations describes the epic struggle between the Persians and the Greeks in 480 BC and assesses the implications of that war in terms of the history of the West in light of the Greek victory at Salamis. Reprint.