It's an If I Like thread

[PolaroidPrincess]

I want to read more historical fiction.

In the part I've read and enjoyed:

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
Birth of Venus
Blood & Beauty &
In the Name of the Family all by Sarah Dunnant

And I'm currently reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton.

Just wondering if anyone had any recommendations based in those?

Robert Harris - his latest is The Precipice and I really liked Act of Oblivion.

Is there a period of history that you are particularly interested in?

Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait?
Any of Emma Donoghue”s historical novels — maybe start with Slammerkin or The Wonder?

There's a bit more Sarah Dunant to go at:

Sacred Hearts and In The Company Of The Courtesan.

The Floating Book by M R Lovric

If you're not averse to young adult then I also enjoyed Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly and anything by Marcus Sedgewick. He was a fab writer.

Did you see my recent post with a list?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/5156772-the-best-historical-fiction-from-the-past-year

Carnevale by MR Lovric
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
And of course The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnet. Start with Game of Kings

Ooh have you read ‘the Borgia bride’ by Jeanne Kalogridis

or

‘The Confessions of Catherine deMedici’ by CW Gortner. Similar vibes I would say

If you like Sarah Dunant I second the courtesan book mentioned above them follow it with The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato
"1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway—Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice."

I couldn't put it down. It was really well researched.

Some Rose Tremain books