Historical Fiction
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Midnight on Lundy
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This story is set in the 1960s on Lundy, an island off the North Devon coast. Although the story is fictional, it has been inspired by many tales of Lundy at that time, when the island was privately owned, keepers...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/10/2009
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Blue Lantern
Set in Hong Kong at the time of the Cultural Revolution riots in 1967, Blue Lantern is a story of sex and police corruption. Mike Brodie a young police inspector from Glasgow is caught between two women. Helen is a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/10/2009
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Lighter Than Air
Love travels…..Lighter than air In May 1937, when the German airship, Hindenburg, crashed to the ground in flames the exact cause was never defined. But imagine you had been there. In Susan Pope’s atmospheric story, a mix of fact and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2009
The Green Bronze Mirror
Karen is playing on the beach when she finds an ancient mirror buried in the sand. She looks into it, and is transported back in time to the Roman empire. Finding herself a slave, she faces many hair-raising adventures in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/10/2009
The Crimson Bed
Frederic Ashton Thorpe and his best friend, Henry Winstone, are artists immersed in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, with its yearning for romantic escape from the materialism of Victorian society. Seeing a half-finished portrait of the beautiful Eleanor Farnham at Henry's studio,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2010
That Terrible Shadowing
This highly original art historical faction novel probes the mystery of Caravaggio's death in the context of a rivetingly told time travel adventure. We meet face to face with the great 16th-17th century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
War on the Margins
France has fallen to the Nazis. Britain is under siege. As BBC bulletins grow bleak, residents of Jersey abandon their homes in their thousands. When the Germans take over, Marlene Zimmer, a shy clerk at the Aliens Office, must register...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/07/2009
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.
