Historical fiction please!

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Recently enjoyed:
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Crimson Petal and the White
Hamnet

Any other suggestions?

Absolutely Mary Renault. Read them in my teens and might read them again.

I like Phillipa Gregory, they are easy to read, she’s no Hilary mantel as s9meone else said, but they aren’t badly written.

the Raj Quartet is very good.

I would agree re Philippa Gregory, not gonna win booker prizes, but not badly written either.

I read one of hers about the youngest of the Grey sisters and enjoyed that.

For well written fluff, Georgette Heyer. Very witty in places, and she did her research.

And The Spanish Bride, An Infamous Army and A Civil Contract are not all, or even mostly, fluff. An Infamous Army is supposed to be one of the best-written accounts of the battle of Waterloo.

The Century trilogy, A Place Called Freedom & A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett are all excellent.

I wasn't so keen on his Pillars of the Earth trilogy though (got a bit bored with all the architectural detail)

Fab news about the next book in the Robert Carey series - I had given up hope it would!

Just finished a book by Gillian Bagwell called The Darling Strumpet...about Nell Gwynn and King Charles II.

Very much enjoyed it!

Robert Graves wrote some good historical fiction. Sergeant Lamb, for example, which is set during the American War of Independence.

I came on here to see if anyone has read The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier. Interesting by easy read that covers a lot of Venetian history. It’s also on BBC Sounds currently.

But yes to Pachinko. By far one of the best Booja I’ve read in a long while. I found myself more than once forgoing large chunks of sleep at night to read instead.

Also another vote for Sarah Dunant. I particularly enjoyed The Blood and The Beauty and In the Name of the Family which are based in Lucrezia Borgia. I’m very far off being an historian though so have no idea how accurate they are.

Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnet.

Skip read Game of King's, and start properly reading Queens Play. Either continue to Disorderly Kinghts and the rest, or go back and fall in love ❤️ if you don't break your heart in Pawn in Frankincense you aren't human.

But it takes time to get into them, and Game of Thrones is the worst/most confusing of the series - one for the addicts not for an intro

The corn king and the spring queen by Naomi Mitchison