Tom Holland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Tom Holland on X
New history of Rome's heyday - Pax - out now! Dinosaur lover. Stonehenge Tunnel hater. A 'leading English cricketer' - The Times. Podcast: @theresthistory
The Mansfield Park Edition: (illustrated)
Jane AustenTom Holland“Dress helps us to visualise the external selves of Jane Austen’s characters as clearly as she wrote their internal ones. After all, not even Lydia Bennet goes naked.” @FourRedShoes concludes her brilliantly entertaining (& gorgeously illustrated) Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfTom HollandCourtesy of @andrea_wulf, this is simultaneously a brilliant study of the origin of subjectivity & selfie-sticks, & a wonderful soap opera: amazing characters, endless bed-swapping, friends turned bitter rivals. Andrea’s book, Magnificent Rebels: https://t.co/tlZQoQjaeP
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Expectations
Charles DickensTom HollandTo cope with my Great Expectations withdrawal symptoms, I curl up with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s new book… https://t.co/2eldK97pIX
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kirkcudbrightshire
Jesse RussellTom HollandI curl up with @ImbolcFire’s Grave Concerns, which is an absolutely splendid survey of the traditions, controversies, possible dirty tricks by the Nottinghamshire tourist industry, & hints of latter-day vampirism associated with Robin Hood’s grave in Kirklees. https://t.co/IukOoYrDFe
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Bleak House
Charles DickensTom HollandOne thing I’d never really stopped to consider before, but now I’ve had it pointed out by John Mullan is very striking: how there is one strand of narrative in #BleakHouse in the present tense, & a second - Esther’s narrative - in the past.
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Post Captain
Patrick O'BrianTom HollandNow that I have successfully broken through the 3 pages of interminable detail about #rope in Master & Commander, and made it to Post Captain, I am enjoying Patrick O’Brian very much…
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Twelve Years a Slave (the Original Book from Which the 2013 Movie '12 Years a Slave' Is Based) (Illustrated)
Solomon NorthupTom HollandOn the 11th day of @TheRestHistory's Christmas: - Solomon Northup reclaims his freedom after 12 years a slave (1853) - Albert Camus dies (1960) https://t.co/BrdUY9VAUy https://t.co/Zpwhx5WI8t https://t.co/WNmKPQwP47 https://t.co/JsM6Jd5B8O
Paperback, 2013
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
Hilary DavidsonTom Holland“Each element of Regency men’s dress cost roughly double its female equivalent.” Fascinating detail from @FourRedShoes in her wonderful book, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
Hardcover, 2019
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Constellation of Genius
Kevin JacksonTom HollandIt now being 2022, & being a sucker for an anniversary, I curl up with Kevin Jackson’s Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism and all that Jazz
Paperback, 2017
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lamplighters
Emma StonexTom HollandI finish The Lamplighters, @StonexEmma’s haunting & wonderfully atmospheric debut novel: a mystery story, a psychological thriller, a ghost story. I’m not surprised that Hilary Mantel should have admired it… https://t.co/0yoxeZQrbr
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book