Historical fiction recommendations?

[MissHoneyBee]

Ebook, real, whatever.

The last three I've read have been 'a thousand splendid suns', 'the kite runner', and 'white dog feel from the sky'. Basically, all (recent) historical fiction, all brilliant.

Any recommendation for the next? Literally no clue where to start.


TIA

[mimbleandlittlemy]

Artus is right about Dorothy Dunnet - they are fantastic and are out of print but you can get them on Kindle. Not cheap but SO worth it.

Music and Silence - another Rose Tremain (and also The Colour which is about gold hunting in New Zealand and is a lot shorter and more readable than The Luminaries).

The Name of the Rose - an historical fiction classic

Gillespie & I (second time I've suggested that today but I've just remembered how much I loved it so flogging it round!)

The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker

[AnneEtAramis]

Louis de Bernieres writes brilliantly researched historic fiction.

The Ayse Kulin recommended below - The Last Train to Istanbul was a good read.

The English German Girl was great.

Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado set in 1930s Brazil was beyond brilliant but quite emotionally taxing.

Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace.

[reallybadidea]

Would second Hilary Mantel and CJ Sansome. Robert Harris has written a number of historical novels which are quite readable. I've just enjoyed The Miniaturist too, although it took a bit of time to get in to.

I'm afraid I loathed Pillars of the Earth, sorry to those who loved it...