Historical Fiction
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Knight
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Ian Anderson is a mature and beautiful new voice on the literary scene. Knight is breathtaking in its scope, exquisite in its tenderness, and uplifting in its refusal to succumb to the despair which fate sometimes prepares for us. It...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2013
Love, Freedom or Death
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It all started with a promise to a girl he hardly knew...Love, Freedom or Death is a love story set against the resistance struggle in Crete during World War 2. Inspired by true events, it follows impetuous young Dudley Watkins,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
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The Devil's Monk : Guardian of the Book
Bald’s Book of Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft was written in the ninth century. It was a compendium of the prescriptions, potions, nostrums, incantations and astrological predictions collected over a lifetime by Cild, his father, a travelling leech. It dealt with...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/09/2012
Out of the Clouds of Deceit
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In 1948, while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with another pilot, Dennis, who lost his brother in the war and cannot come to terms with his grief. Through contact with older serving officers, Aiden...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2012
Elizabeth 1: The People's Queen?
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A different window on the first half of the famous Queen's life. Elizabeth I is a historical novel narrated by the three women who knew her best (real figures from history), Lady Margaret Bryan, Kat Ashley and Lady Catherine Knollys....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2012
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Kicking the Hornets' Nest
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Fact to fiction stories about a British tank crew fighting in the Normandy Campaign of 1944/5 Written by Gerry Wells who served as a member of a tank crew in those dizzy days, 22 of the stories deal directly with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/05/2012
About this genre
Historical fiction is booming from James MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman novels, to Patrick O’Brian’s naval series, or the Brother Caedfel mysteries set in the Middle Ages.
Historical novels add to the pleasure of reading a good story, the additional pleasures of getting to know a period from history with all its local colour and smells and food and clothes.
Lovewriting lets you discover new authors of historical fiction, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
