Flying Dutch, a humourous fantasy novel by Tom Holt

Flying Dutch

Cover by
Steve Lee

Cover by
Josh Kirby

US Cover by
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You can order the book online from the following bookstore:
Amazon.co.uk (Europe): Paperback
Amazon.de (Deutschland): Flying Dutch

First published 1991
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN, paperback: 1857230175
ISBN, hardback: 0356201112 (out of print)
Hardback 304 pages, Paperback 224 pages.

This novel will also appear in the Tom Holt Omnibus 1.

Flying Dutch
The back of the book says:

It's amazing the problems drinking can get you into. One little swig from the wrong bottle and you go from being an ordinary Dutch sea-captain to an unhappy immortal, drifting aroundthe world with your similarity immortal crew, suffering from peculiary whiffy side effects. Worst of all, Richard Wagner writes an opera about you
Little does Cornelius Vanderdecker, the Flying Dutchman, suspect that a chane encounter in an English pub might just lead to the end of his cursed life, one way or another ...

The book have been published with two different covers.
Josh Kirby made the covers for the first two novels. Later on they switched cover artist to Steve Lee, which has made most of the covers to Tom Holts books.
Read more about the cover artists in the FAQ.

Unfortunatly I never scribbled down what I thought about the book, however, I did really enjoy it (I think it was the first Tom Holt novel I read). It is my favourite novel written by Tom Holt.

Quotes from this book can be found in the quote-files.

People's reviews of this book

Tom Knapp's review - Alan Wexelblat's review - Gary Starr's review - Tom Knapp's review

If you have read this book and have written down your thoughts, please mail me the location of your review and I will link it from here.

This book has also been translated to German.

What critics have said

`Dazzling, neat, frivolous ... Holt's witty and eccentric historical ruminations range over centuries with eae'
Time Out

`I loved the humour (subtle but effective), Excellent'
Starburst

`Guranteed to put a contented smile on your lips'
Washington Post

Quote from Ye Gods!
One view is that mankind has a desperate need to believe in something, preferably something so blatantly absurd that only blind, unquestioning faith will suffice - for example, the belief which sprang up in the late nineteenth century and was still widely current in Jason Derry's time and which held that human beings were not in fact created at all but were somehow the descendants of bald, mutant monkeys. The other view is that there is never anything much on television during the summer.

(Tom Holt, "Ye Gods!")

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Amazon.co.uk: Ye Gods!

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All stories/filksongs is written by Tom Holt, and not by me.
This is a fan-page about Tom Holt, made by me: Calle,
Tom Holt is in no way responsible for whatever I put up or write here.

Flying Dutch

People's reviews of this book

What critics have said

Quote from Ye Gods!