To this end, he spends the remainder of the book travelling through a Europe beginning to recover from the Thirty Years' War and to the American colonies, and spends much of his time in the company of 'blooddrinkers' (vampires). When Captain Foxe and his wife are killed by the evil he has been seeking out, his teenage son Robert begins a quest to gain revenge, to be able to face and destroy the evil power which has taken over the manor and possessed the villagers of Woodton. There, the manor house has been abandoned, as many are, by exiled supporters of the king but in Woodton the gentry were rumoured to have been involved in black magic. Captain Foxe, an officer in the militia based at Salisbury, begins an investigation into a series of ritual murders at ancient monuments (the cathedral and Stonehenge are the best known), and becomes convinced that they are connected to strange events in his home village of Woodton. Tom Holland: Deliver Us From Evil (1997)ĭeliver Us From Evil, a historical horror novel, starts at the end of the Cromwellian Commonwealth in England, just before the restoration of the monarchy and the reign of Charles II.
He served two years as the Chair of the Society of Authors as Chair of the PLR Advisory Committee and was on the committee of the Classical Association. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from religion to dinosaurs. Holland hosts (with Dominic Sandbrook) the no.1 podcast The Rest is History. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to 'the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome'. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics and followed in 2016 by a history of Æthelstan published under the Penguin Monarchs series, and in 2019 Æthelflæd England's Forgotten Founder as a Ladybird Expert Book. Holland has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. His bestselling books include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize Persian Fire, which won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar and Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster.
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