subject of De-Radicalising Muhammad. In an interview he gave to the literary website Quadrapheme the following month he explained that he wanted the lecture to promote discussion of the way Muhammad's life is interpreted, arguing that his "mythos lies at the core of what is pernicious in the goings-on of Islamic State and other radicals." Personal life Holland married Sadie, now a midwife, on 31 July 1993. The couple have two daughters and live in Brixton, London. He is the great-nephew of Olympic cyclist Charles Holland, the first Englishman to complete the Tour de France. He is not related to actor Tom Holland. Holland is a prolific user of the social media site Twitter. He joined the site in January 2011, and as of July 2022, had sent out over 207,000 tweets. In 2016, Holland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a keen cricket fan and player and a bowler (fast-medium) for the Authors XI team, which is composed of prominent British writers. He contributed a chapter (about the only time in his years of playing the game that he hit a six, while the Authors XI were playing a team from Eton College) to the book that the team collectively wrote about their first season playing together, The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon (Bloomsbury, 2013). He also wrote an article for the Financial Times about receiving batting training from his cricketing hero, England captain Alastair Cook. Written works Series fiction Fiction Short fiction Plays Non-fiction Description & arrow-searchable preview. Translation Radio broadcasts Our Man in Athens (writer) 30 July 2001, Radio 4 Making History (presenter) 2011–present, Radio 4 Television broadcasts Dinosaurs, Myth and Monsters (writer and presenter) 14 September 2011, BBC Four Islam: The Untold Story (writer and presenter) 28 August 2012, BBC Four Isis: Origins of Violence (writer and presenter) 17 May 2017, BBC Four Podcast Holland presents a podcast with historian Dominic Sandbrook, called The Rest is History. References External links The Rest is History podcast Holland's page , Conville and Walsh literary agents These Islands website 1968 births Living people Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Oxford British critics of Islam British writers English atheists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature History Today people Islam-related controversies People educated at Canford School People educated at Chafyn Grove School People from