Author · born 1961
Tom Holt
Tom Holt (born 1961) is a British writer. Born in London.
Our catalogue lists 5 books by Tom Holt, mostly urban fantasy, stage-magic fiction and feudal-Japan fiction. They span 1992 to 2017. The most-read is You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here but It Helps (2006).
Books by Tom Holt
Awards
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2016 — Best Novel, Savages (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2014 — Best Novella, The Sun And I (nominee)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2013 — Best Novella, Let Maps to Others (winner)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2012 — Best Novella, A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2026 — Best Novella, Making History (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Collection, Under My Skin (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Novelette, Stronger (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2021 — Best Fantasy Novel, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2021 — Best Novella, Prosper's Demon (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Fantasy Novel, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Novella, My Beautiful Life (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Collection, The Father of Lies (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Novelette, The Thought That Counts (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Novelette, The Return of the Pig (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Novella, Mightier Than the Sword (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Novelette, Told by an Idiot (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Devil You Know (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Fantasy Novel, Savages (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Novella, The Last Witness (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Collection, Academic Exercises (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novelette, Heaven Thunders the Truth (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novella, The Things We Do for Love (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Short Story, I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2014 — Best Novelette, The Dragonslayer of Merebarton (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2014 — Best Novelette, The Sun And I (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Fantasy Novel, Sharps (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Novelette, One Little Room an Everywhere (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Novella, Let Maps to Others (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2012 — Best Fantasy Novel, The Hammer (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2012 — Best Novelette, A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong (nominee)