Exiled Preacher

‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there',  wrote L.P.   Hartley. Just how foreign and exotic is the...

Last night we headed for Waterstones in The Galleries, Bristol to hear the author Tom Holland give a captivating talk on his latest tome,  P...

  Several years ago we spent our summer holidays in Carmarthen, West Wales. Disaster struck. I ran out of books to read. But ever the intrep...

I enjoyed Glen Scrivener's interview with Tom Holland when we saw it on Sunday evening, although much of the ground they covered was fa...

Little Brown, 2019, 594pp When Paul arrived in Corinth sometime in the early 50s AD, the apostle was aware of the intellectual pre...

As a child the historian Tom Holland was fascinated by the ancient Romans and Greeks. Holland, who hails from Wiltshire, went on to auth...

A few years ago when our children (now twenty somethings) were still children, we holidayed in Carmarthen. We saw Toy Story 3 in the cin...

Abacus, 2016, 512pp  More summer holiday reading. Still on the theme of our Rome/Venice half term break. Ever read the second half ...

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom,   by Tom Holland, 2008, Abacus, 476pp Tom Holland's Millennium...

We're off to the Algarve tomorrow. Like the PM we're flying by EasyJet, but probably unlike him it's hand luggage only for...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West ,   by Tom Holland, Abacus, 2005, 418pp.  And for my next trick I ...