Tom Holland

Travel back to the Roman Empire with the award-winning star of the world’s most downloaded history podcast, The Rest is History. 

Join Tom Holland as he celebrates his translation for Penguin Classics of Suetonius’s influential Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

Ancient Rome was the supreme arena where emperors had no choice but to fight and to thrill. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world.

No historian understood this more clearly than Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, who lived and worked in Rome in AD 121, and whose astonishing narratives bring the emperors’ daily struggles to life.

Holland’s electrifying new translation of this, one of the most influential works of history ever written, delves into the lives of Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, and Nero, exposing their shortfalls, laying bare their sex scandals, and revealing their outrageous tastes, foibles and eccentricities. His Lives of the Caesars transports us to a time and culture at once familiar and utterly alien to our own.

Already an acclaimed, bestselling author when the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History made superstar of him and his co-host Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland guides us through history with humour, insight and expertise.

Don’t miss this thrilling evening’s entertainment.