Holt's "straight" historical novels, notably The Walled Orchard, have attracted widespread praise.

Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write I, Margaret, an unauthorized biography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989.

Table of contents

1 Novels 1.1 Humorous fantasy 1.2 Historical 1.3 other

Novels

• Expecting Someone Taller (1987)
• Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)
• Flying Dutch (1991)
• Ye Gods! (1992)
• Overtime (1993)
• Here Comes the Sun (1993)
• Grailblazers (1994)
• Faust Among Equals (1994)
• Odds & Gods (1995)
• Djinn Rummy (1995)
• My Hero (1996)
• Paint Your Dragon (1996)
• Open Sesame (1997)
• Wish You Were Here (1998)
• Only Human (1999)
• Snow White and The Seven Samurai (1999)
• Valhalla (2000)
• Nothing But Blue Skies (2001)
• Falling Sideways (2002)
• Little People (2002)

• The Walled Orchard (1997)
  • originally published in two parts, as Goatsong (1989) and The Walled Orchard (1990)
• Alexander At The World's End (1999)
• Olympiad (2000)
• Song for Nero (2003)