Rubicon was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2004, and Persian Fire won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006. Tom Holland's latest book, Millennium, is also available as an Abacus paperback. All three are available as audiobooks from Hachette Audio. 'Millennium is a superb, fascinating and erudite medieval banquet of slaughter, sanctity and sex, filled with emperors, whores and monks' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Millennium ranges far in both time and space yet always returns to its central theme: the right ordering of Christendom ... it is a narrative history in the grand manner, written with panache and confidence ... A marvellous, enthralling read' Daily Telegraph 'Holland excels at narration, never jogging when he can gallop .. . His highly individual road map to the hitherto "dark ages" is written with forceful - and convincing—panache' Christina Hardyment, Independent 'Enjoyable and exuberantly argued ...
