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Historical fiction
Historical fiction can come in various 'flavours', from romance to adventure, try some of these:
- Historical military adventures, if you like the Sharpe and/or Hornblower series
- If you like the books of Diana Gabaldon
- New Zealand
- Sagas - stories of families across generations
- Time travel
- Westerns for those who don't necessarily like westerns
- Women authors of historical fiction
Historical fiction authors
- Peter Ackroyd
- Joan Aiken
- Valerie Anand
- Federico Andahazi
- Evelyn Anthony
- Donna Baker
- Pat Barr
- Pamela Belle
- Valerie Blumenthal
- Philip Boast
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Melvyn Bragg
- Betty Burton
- Philippa Carr
- Elizabeth Chadwick
- Evan S. Connell
- Catherine Cookson
- Alexander Cordell
- Bernard Cornwell
- Bryce Courtenay
- Elizabeth Daish
- Margaret Thompson Davis
- Laurie Devine
- Christie Dickason
- Sara Donati
- Gary Douglas
- Emma Drummond
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Dorothy Eden
- George Eliot
- Barbara Erskine
- Pamela Evans
- Patricia Finney
- Thomas Flanagan
- Georgina Fleming
- Sara Fraser
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Catherine Gavin
- Margaret George
- Charles Gidley
- George Gissing
- Judith Glover
- Iris Gower
- Winston Graham
- Jonathan Grant
- Robert Graves
- Philippa Gregory
- Sandra Gulland
- Pamela Haines
- Mollie Hardwick
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Constance Heaven
- Joan Hessayon
- Georgette Heyer
- Pamela Hill
- Jane Aiken Hodge
- Cecelia Holland
- Helen Hollick
- Tom Holt
- Victoria Holt
- Audrey Howard
- Glyn Hughes
- Christian Jacq
- Brenda Jagger
- Elizabeth Kary
- Sheelagh Kelly
- Lena Kennedy
- Ross King
- Rosalind Laker
- Dinah Lampitt
- Stephen Lawhead
- Judith Lennox
- Mary Lide
- Morgan Llywelyn
- Norah Lofts
- Mary Lomer
- Claire Lorrimer
- Genevieve Lyons
- Colleen McCullough
- Malcolm Macdonald
- Alison McLeay
- Elisabeth McNeill
- Joy Martin
- Allan Massie
- Robin Maxwell
- Rosalind Miles
- Andrew Miller
- May Minton
- Robert Nye
- Pamela Oldfield
- Edith Pargeter
- Sharon Kay Penman
- Jean Plaidy
- Madeleine Polland
- Pamela Pope
- Steven Pressfield
- Rona Randall
- Audrey Reimann
- Mary Renault
- Judith Merkle Riley
- Cynthia Roberts
- Edward Rutherfurd
- Rebecca Ryman
- Fay Sampson
- Diana Saville
- Jeff Shaara
- Patricia Shaw
- Sarah Shears
- Agnes Short
- Kay Stephens
- Jessica Stirling
- Jean Stubbs
- Margaret Sunley
- Reay Tannahill
- Judith Tarr
- William Thackeray
- E. V. Thompson
- Grace Thompson
- Eileen Townsend
- Nigel Tranter
- Rose Tremain
- Anthony Trollope
- Gore Vidal
- Jan Webster
- Philippa Wiat
- Barbara Whitnell
- Audrey Willsher
- Sarah Woodhouse
- Daphne Wright
- Patricia Wright
