Run out of favourite authors - looking for some new historical fiction. Recommendations please.

If you don't mind going to the 19C, India and other eastern settings take a look at Emma Drummond, also goes by Elizabeth Darrell. I just discovered her and working on getting more of her books to try. The two I've read so far,

Forget the Glory (India and Crimean War)
Beyond All Frontiers (India and Afghan Wars)

Steven Saylor with the ' Gordianus the Finder' series
Lindsay Davies with 'Falco' the earlier books especially.
P Doherty with either Hugh Corbett or Brother Athelstane again the earlier Corbett stories are best but all Athlestane are well worth a read not so keen on his Egyptian forays or the other english historical stuff
More recent history from Michael Pearce with the Mamur Zapt stories and the ' Dead man in ' short tales
Candace Robb with Owen Archer some are much better than others
Roger the Chapman series
Finally if you like George R R Martin try Fritz Leiber or even better Jack Vance..

The following two historical novels are for sale at under a £:

Warrior - Path of Destiny (1176 - 1183): The first book in the Warrior series, and interweaves the brutality of history, revenge, love, friendship, and betrayal in telling the story of Temujin - the boy who would become the greatest warrior of all: Genghis Khan.

Warrior - Scourge of the Steppe (1190 - 1206): The second book in the Warrior series, interweaves the brutality of history, revenge, love, friendship, and betrayal in telling the story of Temujin - the man who would become the greatest warrior of all: Genghis Khan.

Also, my website is: http://tim-ellis.yolasite.com/

Tim

If it helps,P.Camsters Apocalypse Apocalypse has been multi-award nominated and the 2nd edition(delayed only by J.Tait Black Prize schedules) may be more expensive when it comes out soon.All best wishes.

I recently read Rosalind miles- Isolde books, which are good but Mechelle Morgan is my favourite as she writes about ancient Egypt.

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Hope you don't mind self-promotion, but as you say you like historical fiction to be well researched, I think you would enjoy my novel The Turning of the Tide It is based on real people and actual events and concerns a young woman who is confined in a Devon workhouse with her two young children until she is helped by a local doctor who employs her in his own household. You can read reviews and an extract on my website www.lizshakespeare.co.uk

Lord Gordon You might try this one.

Patrick O'Brian! And Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome

Try Helen Hollick's books.

If you've read Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, you've got to read World Without End! I am half way through it and can't put it down.

There's also the Wilbur Smith Egyptian series that, in my opinion, are amazing. There are 4 books, River God, Warlock, The Seventh Scroll and The Quest. I loved River God and Warlock and enjoyed The Seventh Scroll and The Quest but not as much as the first 2. River God, Warlock and The Quest are set in Ancient Egypt following the character called Taita, a eunuch and servant to the Pharaoh. The Seventh Scroll is set in the 20th century, with an Egyptologist trying to find the tomb of the Pharaoh from River God. I always re-read books I have enjoyed and have had to buy new copies of both River God and Warlock as I had read them so often they were falling apart!

And then apart from the historical fiction are 2 books that were recommended to me by a friend and were Amazing! I think they are classed as Fantasy. The Painted Man and The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett. They are book 1 and 2 of a triology, of which book 3 comes out next year. It took me a couple of chapters to get into The Painted Man, due to the strange names and unfamiliar setting but once into it, it is brilliant. Set hundreds of years in the future, mankind has lost all technology and science and each night are terrified by demons that rise from the core of the earth when the sun sets.

Hope this helps and gives you a couple more books to consider.

1831: Charlotte Treleaven Comes of Age

Have you tried Roberta Gellis? She's written enough books, in practically every genre (except Westerns, as far as I know) to keep you going for years to come - Sci-fi, mediaeval romance and mystery, fantasy, Italian renaissance, etc: and all well researched, with meticulous detail. My particular love is the Roselynde Chronicles. I can read these over and over.

By the way, the book above is my first and only, to date, historical romance. I am having a book signing of it at Lewtrenchard Manor, near Okehampton on April 2nd, an appropriate venue because a portrait which was the inspiration for my hero hangs in the reception there.
Patricia R. Olds Author.

I couldn't agree more.

Walls of Jericho
You might like to try this if you enjoy historical adventure with a little humanity thrown in. Also available on Kindle Walls of Jericho - A Cavalry Tale

From a new imprint for historical fiction in the States, see a novel of Antinous and Hadrian that is getting lovely reviews (amazon.com page, goodreads, and other sites) : Eromenos: A Novel of Ancient Rome. The second title, also getting great reviews, has its setting closer to the Isles, in fact, ancient Ireland : Bending the Boyne: A Novel of Ancient Ireland .

Agree about Rosemary Sutcliff- Rider of the White Horse my absolute favourite, The Rider of the White Horse about Thomas Fairfax, one of Cromwell's generals in the Civil War. He saved the windows of York Minster.

Try Kathleen Herbert- the Cumbrian/Nothumbrian Trilogy about the conflict between the two cultures in England during the 7th C- ie the Romano Brits and the Anglo Saxons, and the latest- just published, set in 1678. OK- I'm biased, as I know Kathleen well, but don't take my word for it. The first 2 reviews give Moon in Leo 5 stars-"a subtle blend of scholarship and terror set in a carefully reseached historical background which serves to enhance and intensify the plight of a beautiful and intellient girl who is caught in a trap of her own emotions and the political machinations of men who seek to use her.
.....and it looks good on the book shelf!"

Kathleen Herbert - now there's a name I've not heard in years. Fabulous writer and such a lovely lady. I met her at an Arthurian conference and we became firm friends. A Lady sadly missed by everyone who loves history.

Kathleen Herbert - now there's a name I've not heard in years. Fabulous writer and such a lovely lady. I met her at an Arthurian conference and we became firm friends. A Lady sadly missed by everyone who loves history.

Kathleen Herbert - now there's a name I've not heard in years. Fabulous writer and such a lovely lady. I met her at an Arthurian conference and we became firm friends. A Lady sadly missed by everyone who loves history.

That warms my heart Helen. She is indeed a lovely lady, and has been a good friend of mine for more than 40 years. She had a severe stroke after finishing Moon in Leo, and became increasingly anxious about it, until she eventually gathered up all 700 pages of it (x2) and gave it to me to sort out. That was a long hard journey of over 20 years, which culminated in me forming a publishing company in January of this year. You can read about some of the story on my blog: http://trifoliumbooks.blogspot.com/ I think you will find Moon in Leo to be her best book yet- and if it sells well enough, we shall look towards reprinting the earlier books. Do contact me via my blog- i am sure Kathleen would love to hear from you

My goodness - I knew she'd had a stroke but someone told me, several years ago, that she had passed away! Oh you have made my day! I'll be in touch!

I have just finished a good trilogy by Jack Ludlow on the Norman de Hauteville family. It is about a family who basically take over the various states in Italy around the time of the Norman conquest of England, and is known as the First Crusade! I must admit it was sometimes a confusing read, but in persevering I really enjoyed them. Other good reads include the books by Giles Kristian (Raven series) about Vikings (can't wait for third book to arrive), if you like Bernard Cornwell's Saxon books you will I am sure like Giles Kristian's books. I so love my HF books, that I have now created a Database of books that I want to read, as I found myself forgetting what I had and hadn't read or purchased! Next book to be read is A Hollow Crown by Helen Hollick - a book recommended on the American version of Amazon. I can't wait to read it.

Replying to criteria and likes of the original poster of this thread, it sounds as though you might enjoy titles published by the UK's Quaestor 2000. Also there is a new US-based small imprint for historical fiction that has released two titles as of March, 2011: EROMENOS -- with reviews if you search it the US page, and BENDING THE BOYNE, again the reviews may be found on the US page and one on the UK Amazon page : Bending the Boyne: A Novel of Ancient Ireland

I can offer myself as an option...having been inspired by David Gemmell, Simon Scarrow, Valerio Massimo Manfredi & others, I've written and published "Legionary"!

"Legionary" is a tale of adventure in the Roman legions and conspiracy at the very top of the imperial and ecclesiastical tree of power.
Legionary is set in the later Roman Empire (376 AD), when the legions have lost their seeming invincibility and the infrastructure is crumbling, a period I find truly captivating!

Legionary £3.56

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east...

376 AD: the Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defences to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders.

The fates conspire to see Numerius Vitellius Pavo, enslaved as a boy after the death of his legionary father, thrust into the limitanei, the border legions, just before they are sent to recapture the long-lost eastern Kingdom of Bosporus. He is cast into the jaws of this plot, so twisted that the survival of the entire Roman world hangs in the balance...