Dominion

Critics Review

• Terrific: bold, ambitious and passionate

  Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

• 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 Incerto (The Black Swan, Antifragile...)

• 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

• Holland is an illuminating guide on a journey from Ancient Athens to 21st-century gay rights

  History Revealed

• Sustained with all the breadth, originality and erudition that we have come to associate with Holland’s writing

  Spectator

• Fizzing with insights and challenges, this is one history book that is timely and important, as well as a feast of intellectual entertainment

  Sunday Times

• Holland is an exceptionally good storyteller with a marvellous eye for detail

  The Economist

• An all-absorbing story

  Literary Review

• This book has ruffled feathers . . . lyrical, vivid

  Evening Standard

• It’s not often that you come across a book that completely transforms your understanding of the world

  Spectator

• A rich and compelling history of Christendom . . . A masterpiece of scholarship and storytelling, Dominion surpasses Holland’s earlier books in its sweeping ambition and gripping presentation

  New Statesman

• [Holland encapsulates] so much, so intelligently and entertainingly, in a book that’s fizzing with ideas

  Mail on Sunday

• I love the sweep of it

  Sunday Telegraph

• Tom Holland’s stupendous new book . . . There isn’t a page of this magnificent book that does not contain some
  fascinating detail and the narrative is held together with a novelist’s eye for character and theme

  History Today

• A brilliant meditation on how Christianity in its Latin and Protestant forms entirely changed the way humans conceive life and their relationship to each other

  New Statesman

• An absorbing survey of Christianity’s subversive origins and enduring influence is filled with vivid portraits, gruesome deaths and moral debates . . . Holland has all the talents of an accomplished novelist: a gift for narrative, a lively sense of drama and a fine ear for the rhythm of a sentence

  Guardian

• If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland’s book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny

  Sunday Times

• A bravura swing through centuries of Western European history . . . a cornucopia of characters and information: almost everyone would learn from it something they didn’t know . . . the range and unobvious sweep of his narrative are most impressive

  Times Literary Supplement

• An erudite and fascinating look at the enduring legacy of Christianity, which, as numbers of believers are dwindling

  The Lady

• Those who like their history with a dose of lessons about the present will be impressed by Tom Holland’s ambitious Dominion

  Telegraph

• Definitely my book of the year

  Bernard Cornwell