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Coming soon
Dominion, a new book from Tom Holland exploring Christianity's enduring impact on the West, is coming in Autumn 2019. Find out more here.
‘This extraordinary book is vintage Tom Holland: history boldly and elegantly retold, with fascinating interconnections traced to create a narrative that cannot fail to stimulate, for it leads to a never-ending question’ - Diarmaid MacCulloch‘Tom Holland is fun to read, monstrously erudite, wickedly joyful and ahead of the established consensus, on average, by four years, three months, and two days’ - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan
‘Terrific: bold, ambitious and passionate’ - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
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Dynasty is out now in paperback.
Tom Holland’s critically acclaimed, magisterial account of the Roman Empire is out now in paperback – just in time to take away with you on your summer holidays. Dynasty is the story of rise and fall of the house of Caesar, and has been hailed as ‘masterly’, ‘wonderful’ and ‘a compulsively good read’. Now featuring a brand new cover, it’s the perfect way to escape to the drama and intrigue of Ancient Rome, wherever you are this summer.
If you’re yet to read Dynasty yet, you can order your copy from the following retailers:
Waterstones | Amazon | Book Depository | Foyles | WHS
And you can read an extract here
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Watch Tom Holland bring Rome to life through his coin collection
Many readers of Dynasty – and its precursor, Rubicon – have reported the sense of being transported into Ancient Rome, so vivid are Tom Holland’s descriptions of the places and people.
‘Deft and skilful . . . both a formidable effort to compile what we can know about the ancient world and a sensational story’ Nick Cohen, Observer
But there are other ways to connect with the world of Caligula, Nero et al, and one is through artefacts from the period. In these short videos made for this website, Tom Holland explores the significance of some of the coins in his collection, and what they tell us about the Emperors brought to life in Dynasty.

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OUT NOW: DYNASTY

A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword.
‘Deft and skilful . . . a formidable effort to compile what we can know about the ancient world and a sensational story’ Nick Cohen, Observer
‘A wonderful, surging narrative - a brilliant and meticulous synthesis of the ancient sources . . . This is a story that should be read by anyone interested in history, politics or human nature - and it has never been better told’ Mail on Sunday.