Recommended Reads - Historical Fiction

[PieMistress]

Hi Peeps,

My BIL likes historical fiction so am thinking of getting him a couple of books for Christmas. Any suggestions? I know he enjoyed Pillars of The Earth and The Book Thief.

Thanks in advance
Pie

Dh recommends Bernard Cornwell

My dh reads a lot of these - his current favourites are Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow (Romans) and Conn Iggulden (have no idea what - looks like Romans and another set of Genghis Khan!).

Thanks! Will go and have a squizz! :)

I'll second all of the authors that IreadthereforeIam said.

I'll also add CJ Sansom. I've recommended them a million times on MN and IRL

I'm seconding CJ Sansom's Shardlake series. There's also a follow up to Pillars of The Earth called World Without End, which is good.

Has anybody read Falls of Giants by Ken Follett?

I enjoyed The Last English King by Julian Rathbone and Pompeii by Robert Harris.

Patrick O'Brien. My DH, who 'rarely reads', has read the whole series of 20 books. Twice

I've just read Fall of Giants by Ken Follett and absolutely devoured it. I would definitely recommend this as the author really makes you think about the interaction of the people in power in the 1st World War and how this massively affected the ordinary people - very cleverly interwoven with different levels of society and different countries.

How could I forget CJ Sansom?!! I read these, never mind dh, and they're fab!! Good to hear that the Ken Follett books waiting on my bookshelf will be a good read, too. I've been putting them off - they're just so big...

I also highly recommend World without End and Bernard Cornwell. I have a lot of BC's books on my tbr pile so can't comment on those but I love hsi Saxon series - think there are 5 so far.

What about Wolf Hall or The Name of the Rose. Both are great page-turners and very evocative of their eras (I'm a historian by background, so am really picky about accuracy).

Wolf Hall is amazing.

Ancient history, Christian Jacq is a French Egyptologist with several fiction collections. "Ramses" is my fave though, five parts, each amazing. And accurate!

I recently read 2 books by M M Bennetts, May 1812 and Of Honest Fame, and I was really suprised at how much i enjoyed them, a real dose of napoleonic wars, page turning and highly addictive.