April
5
Historical Fiction
Experience life 100 years ago or 1000 years ago.
Dip into this list and discover history.
Binet, Laurent. | HHhH (Set in 1940’s Germany). |
Boetius, Henning. |
The Phoenix. (Set in Post WW2 Germany). |
Boyd, William. | Restless (Set in 1939 Paris). |
Boylan, Clare. | Emma Brown. (Set in 1850’s England) |
Bradford, Chris. |
Young Samurai: the way of the warrior. (17th century Japan). |
Bray, Libba. | A great and terrible beauty. (Set in England, 1895). |
Carey, Peter. | True history of the Kelly gang. (Set in the 1880’s in rural Victoria). |
Carlyon, Patrick. |
The Gallipoli story. (Set during WWI in Turkey). |
Chevalier, Tracy. | Burning bright. (Set in London, 1792). |
The girl with a pearl earring. (Set in the Netherlands, 1650’s). | |
The lady and the unicorn (Set in 15th C. Brussels). | |
Clarke, Lindsay. | The war at Troy. (Set in 500 BC, Troy). |
Compestine, Ying Chang. | Revolution is not a dinner party: a novel. (Set in 1970’s China). |
Corby, Caroline. | Boudica: the secrets of the druids. (Set in ancient Britain). |
Diamant, Anita. | The red tent. (Set in biblical Egypt). |
Dickinson, Peter. | Tulku. (Set in China & Tibet during the Boxer Rebellion – 1900). |
Dumas. Alexandre. | The Count of Monte Cristo. (Set around 1840, Italy). |
The three musketeers. (Set in Europe, early 1800’s). | |
Elliott, Patricia. | The pale assassin (Set during the French Revolution) Pimpernelles Series. |
French, Jackie. | Nanberry: black brother white. (Set in 1789, in Australia). |
Pharaoh: the boy who conquered the nile. (Set around 2000BCE, Egypt). | |
Gregory, Philippa. |
The Boleyn inheritance. (Set in 1539 in the court of Henry VIII). |
Grenville, Kate. | The secret river. (Set in 1806, in Australia). |
Guillou, Jan. | The road to Jerusalem. (Set in the Holy Land, 1150 AD). |
Iggulden, Conn. | Emperor: the death of King’s. (Roman times, 100BC – Julius Caeser) |
Wolf of the plains. (Set around 1200AD, during the dynasty of Genghis Khan). | |
Mah, Adeline Yen. | Chinese Cinderella: the secret story of an unwanted daughter. (Set in China during WW2). |
Mandanna, Sarita. | Tiger hills. (Set in southern India, 1878.) |
Manfredi, Valerio Massimo. | Spartan: a novel. (Set in ancient Greece.) |
McCullough, Colleen. | Antony & Cleopatra. (41 BC – 27 BC Rome and Egypt). |
O’Neill, Anthony. | The lamplighter. (Set in 1886, Edinburgh). |
Rasheed, Leila. | Secrets and sapphires: At Somerton Book 1. (Set in 1910, England). |
Rees, Celia. | Pirates (Set in 1722). |
Sovay (Set in 1794 England). | |
Witch child. (Set in 1659). | |
Scarrow, Simon. | The fields of death. (1809, conflict between Wellington & Bonaparte) |
Young bloods (French revolution 1769-1795 Wellington and Napoleon). | |
Fire and sword (1804 France) | |
The generals (1795-1804 France, Egypt, India) | |
Sherman, Delia | The freedom maze |
Wilkinson, Carole. | Dragon moon |
Dragon keeper | |
Garden of the purple dragon (All set in China, around 200AD during the Han Dynasty). | |
Wu, Cheng-en. | Monkey. (Set in 16th century China). |