Historical Fiction: So many books so little time!
Explore the best historical fiction books that transport you through time. Discover captivating stories from different eras, perfect for history lovers and avid readers alike.
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A Crowning Mercy
by Bernard Cornwell
A "New York Times" bestselling master of historical fiction and his co-author deliver a powerful story of a young Puritan woman who, as civil war …
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The Innocent
by Posie Graeme-Evans
The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. …
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The Fallen Angels
by Bernard Cornwell
During the French Revolution, lovely young Englishwoman Lady Campion Lazender finds herself endangered because of her French ancestry and her valuable estate, coveted by a …
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The Thrall's Tale
by Judith Lindbergh
Set in Viking Greenland in 895 AD, this dramatic novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future: …
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The Illuminator
by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Working in secret for a fourteenth-century Oxford professor who would translate the Bible into English, master illuminator Finn forms an alliance with Lady Kathryn, a …
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Margaret the Queen
by Nigel G. Tranter
First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of Edgar Atheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King of England. …
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The Rose of York
by Sandra Worth
In a tumultuous era the passions of a few rule the destiny of England.
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Roselynde
by Roberta Gellis
Yearning to be near the knight who has awakened her to the tender joys of love, Alinor, mistress of Roselynde, defies King Richard's command to …
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A Rare and Curious Gift
by Pauline Holdstock
Through this fearless story of utterly convincing human passions, Holdstock paints a rich, beautifully textured portrait of the Italian Renaissance and its material and spiritual …
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The Physician
by Noah Gordon
Eleventh-century England and Persia are the backgrounds of this story of an orphan named Rob Cole, who is apprenticed to a travelling barber-surgeon and, discovering …
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The Luck of Huemac
by Daniel Peters
Huemac has foreknowledge of the disaster approaching Tenochtitlan, as Cortez and his army march toward the city.
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A Distant Mirror
by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
This is a story of the 14th century, when the whole world seemed to be spinning to its doom, and yet when our modern world …