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Tom Holt (born Thomas Charles Louis Holt September 13 1961 in London) is a British novelist. He is the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School and Wadham College, Oxford.

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. Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write I, Margaret, an unauthorized biography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989.

Novels

Humorous fantasy

Expecting Someone Taller (1987), based on the mythology of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988), based on Norse mythology and history
Flying Dutch (1991), based on the story of the Flying Dutchman
Ye Gods! (1992), based on elements of Greek mythology including a parody of Heracles
Overtime (1993), based on the legend of Blondel combined with time travel
Here Comes the Sun (1993), based loosely on the Celestial Bureaucracy reinterpreted along the lines of the British civil service
Grailblazers (1994), based on Arthurian romance and the quest for the Holy Grail
Faust Among Equals (1994), an imagined continuation of the story of Faust
Odds & Gods (1995), which features assorted pantheons and their adventures after "retirement"
Djinn Rummy (1995), based on the antics of various bottle-trapped djinn along the lines of a modern Aladdin
My Hero (1996), in which literary characters can move between fiction and the real world. One of the main characters is Hamlet
Paint Your Dragon (1996), based on the legend of St George slaying the dragon
Open Sesame (1997), based on characters from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Wish You Were Here (1998), in which a lake spirit grants four people their heart's desire whether they like it or not
Only Human (1999), in which four human souls are switched with a machine, a painting, a lemming and a demon
Snow White and the Seven Samurai (1999), based on fairy tales (Brothers Grimm and others) making a world within a computer simulation
Valhalla (2000), based on Norse mythology
Nothing But Blue Skies (2001), which features Chinese dragons
Falling Sideways (2002)
Little People (2002), based on faery legends
Featuring J.W. Wells, the magic firm from The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan:

The Portable Door (2003)
In Your Dreams (2004)
Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard (2005)
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps (2006)

Someone Like Me (2006)
Barking (2007), based on mythology including vampire/werewolf legends
The Better Mousetrap (2008)

Historical

Using Thomas Holt as author name.

The Walled Orchard (1997), which was originally published in two parts as Goatsong (1989) and The Walled Orchard (1990)
Alexander At The World's End (1999)
Olympiad (2000)
Song for Nero (2003)
Meadowland (2005)

Other

Poems by Tom Holt (1974) (Collection of early poems)
continuations of E. F. Benson's "Lucia" series set in Tilling

Lucia In Wartime (1985) fiction
Lucia Triumphant (1986) fiction

I, Margaret (1989) (satirical biography of Margaret Thatcher, with Steve Nallon)
Bitter lemmings (1997) (Songbook)
Holt Who Goes There? (2002) (short stories)

Parodies of musical works

"Impractical Man" — a parody of the song "Practical Man" by Pete Atkin and Clive James.

External links

official site – official website run by Holt's publisher
Interview at SFFWorld.com

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