TAKING YOU BACK: Favourite Historical Novels

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An Instance Of The Fingerpost
1.  An Instance Of The Fingerpost by Iain Pears
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  "What can I say? Pure Genius"
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The Leopard: Revised and with new material (Vintage Classics)
2.  The Leopard: Revised and with new material (Vintage Classics) by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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  "as close to perfection in a novel as you can get - Garibaldi-era Italy, an ageing but perceptive prince, achingly beautiful writing"
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The House of Sight and Shadow
3.  The House of Sight and Shadow by Nicholas Griffin
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  "Picked it up randomly but got swept into this murky world immediately - very evocative and gripping"
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I, Claudius & Claudius the God
4.  I, Claudius & Claudius the God by Robert Graves
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  "Incredible scope and detail - although beware the fact that he's based it on the Silver Age latin  historian, Suetonius, who is more like the Daily Mirror of ancient history"
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Foucault's Pendulum
5.  Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
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  "Gripping, sinister, vast and for all its erudition, hugely readable"
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The Dream Of Scipio
6.  The Dream Of Scipio by Iain Pears
The list author says:
  "Pears does it again - though not quite as accessibly perhaps. Enjoyable nonetheless"
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To the Hermitage
7.  To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
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  "Straddling two centuries from the Court of Catherine the Great and the recent past - it is truly ingenious"
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The Name Of The Rose (Vintage Classics)
8.  The Name Of The Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
The list author says:
  "A classic and even better than a good film (which book isn't?) - so well-researched that it appears on mediaeval history reading lists, so enthralling that it appears on bestseller lists."
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Abyssinian Chronicles
9.  Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
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  "astonishing narrative history of Uganda from Independence to mid 90s - has it all from a very personal and semi- autobigrapical perspective"
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The Reader
10.  The Reader by Prof Bernhard Schlink
The list author says:
  "OK - not strictly a historical novel as such, but profound account of modern Germany trying to come to terms with its past as seen through two characters"
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The Glass Palace
11.  The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
The list author says:
  "Spanning decades from Burma to Malaysia - fantastic"
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Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga
12.  Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga by James Clavell
The list author says:
  "Part of the Asian saga - this and Noble House are great reads - evocative and breathlessly action-packed"
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The Portrait
13.  The Portrait by Iain Pears
The list author says:
  "OK, yes another Iain Pears - the man's still a real genius. A dark tale about revenge , relationships and painting - unnervingly narrated as one side of a conversation between artist and sitter"
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The Princess of Mantua (New Fiction)
14.  The Princess of Mantua (New Fiction) by Marie Ferranti
The list author says:
  "Well, I enjoyed it (despite what the site reviewer said)"
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Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age)
15.  Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age) by Gore Vidal
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  "evocative, well-researched and very readable"
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Washington D.C. (Narratives of a Golden Age)
16.  Washington D.C. (Narratives of a Golden Age) by Gore Vidal
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  "another in the series - 20th century this time but goes behind the scenes of Macarthyism, corruption and everything else"
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Dissolution (Shardlake)
17.  Dissolution (Shardlake) by C. J. Sansom
The list author says:
  "superb book that has it all - murder, dodgy monks, Tudor politics and Henry VIII whims - does what historical novels SHOULD do"
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Winter in Madrid
18.  Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
The list author says:
  "Sansom does it again - this time in post-civil war Spain, under Franco and a blanket of snow - informative, intriguiging and provocative"
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Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics)
19.  Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics) by Geoff Wilkes
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  "brilliant and evocative - a tale of extraordinary but simple resistance to the Nazis on the ground in Germany"
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Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake 5)
20.  Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake 5) by C. J. Sansom
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  "i love all the shardlake novels - but this, the 5th, is fascinating, gripping and poignant. wonderful"
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Katherine
21.  Katherine by Anya Seton
The list author says:
  "A great romance - but much more than classic chick-lit- pretty accurate historically"
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Mark Meynell "quaesitor" (London, UK)
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Last updated: 16/11/2010
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