Super frazzled. Help me pick a historic, escape holiday read?

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I have a hideously stressful job I feel stuck in out of obligation (another thread perhaps), but I am going for two weeks away! Yippee!

I love historic fiction, my favourites would be Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller or Birds Without Wings/Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres

Feeling a bit at a loss in Waterstones etc. Any ideas?

Suppose Song of Achilles isn't actually historical but I'm sure you get the idea 😂

Hillary Mantel Wolf Hall trilogy. They are physically solid books though

For something much lighter (in all senses), Gerald Durrell Corfu Trilogy. Not "exactly" historical but so much fun.

Sorry if you've read these!

More time flip than purely historic but Kate Mosse has some excellent books - I recommend labyrinth.

Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy by Elizabeth Chadwick or Sharon Penman series about Welsh princes.

Robert Harris - An Officer and A Spy, based on the true story of Alfred Dreyfus.

RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days.

Elodie Harper - The Wolf Den and sequel

Pat Barker - Silence of the Girls

Neither is exactly happy frothy reading mind you! But both are really excellent.

Anything Sharon penman.but my fav of hers is Sunne in splendour.

im really enjoying Minette Walters right now.

Robert harris for a good historical romp.

C J SANSOM, Shardlake series, starts with Dissolution, set in Tudor times, following the life of a lawyer linked to Thomas Cromwell.

ROBERT HARRIS, Pompeii is right up your street going by your favourites, you might also like An Officer and a Spy, about the Dreyfus Affair, also his Cicero trilogy is very engrossing.