The Best Every Historical Fiction

Discover the best historical fiction books of all time! Explore captivating tales from different eras, meticulously researched and masterfully written. Perfect for history buffs and book lovers alike.

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Time and Chance

by Sharon Kay Penman

A novel about the English king Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Here be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

"A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic." THE SAN DIEGO UNION Thirteenth-century Wales …
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Falls the Shadow

by Sharon Kay Penman

"A marvelous literary and historical achievement...Impossible to put down." THE BOSTON HERALD This is Simon de Montfort's story--and the story of King Henry III, as …
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The Reckoning

by Sharon Kay Penman

"Penman's characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to be on the page....Most compelling is the portrait of …
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The Sunne in Splendour

by Sharon Kay Penman

A historical novel that re-creates the life of Richard III in fifteenth-century England, presenting the monarch as a gifted man and romantic hero who was …
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When Christ and His Saints Slept

by Sharon Kay Penman

The acclaimed author of The Sunne in Splendor and Falls the Shadow now begins a new trilogy, set in medieval England, during a time of …