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).

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