| ||||
 Ilena |  Jedder's LandI first read this story in a Readers Digest condensed version about 15 years ago. Since then, it... |  Shike - Time Of The Dragons |  The Mouse God |  The Titans |
 The Warriors |  William's Wife |  Doctor Zhivago |  Element of FireBest Price: $86.22 From the author of the acclaimed The Whitest Flower comes the story of an unforgettable heroine,... |  The Last Station |
 King's Grey MarePoor Elizabeth Woodville! Her character and role in history is plagued by the same problems as... |  Royal Flash |  Midsummer's Eve |  The India FanBest Price: $81.00 "A mesmerizing story of blackmail, romance, and deception." ASSOCIATED PRESS Drusilla... |  The piano man's daughterBest Price: $3.99 The winner of numerous awards, Canadian author Findley shapes this 1996 novel around a young... |
 Mr AmericanBest Price: $44.90 If you've never read George MacDonald Fraser, you've been missing out on one of the best... |  Quentin Durward |  Desiree |  Breakheart PassA magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre.The... |  the incredible sarah |
 Mr. Midshipman HornblowerBest Price: $77.99 The Hornblower Saga is a series that chronicles the life of the fictional English naval hero... |  The Whitechapel ConspiracyBest Price: $1.74 I sometimes have the tendency to overlook shortcomings in authours I admire very much. And until... |  Cold Mountain |  Ride the WindBest Price: $4.40 This compelling, meticulously-researched novel is fascinating, thrilling and heartbreaking. I... |  Hatter FoxBest Price: $118.84 I've taught this book to my high school senior English class for the past three years. They... |
 Follow the RiverBest Price: $4.28 It's 1755 in the peaceful Virginia settlement where 23-year-old Mary Ingles lives happily... |  Murder at the God's Gate (A Lord Meren Mystery)Best Price: $5.00 On the surface, young Tutankhamun - at age 13, in the 5th year of his reign - is the answer to... |  RoseBest Price: $3.73 A departure from his excellent Russian novels (Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square),... |  Sea of Poppies: A NovelBest Price: $23.99 A Farrago of Sound "Chrestomathy: A collection of selected passages from an author or... |  No Graves As Yet: A Novel (World War I)Best Price: $5.28 I have read four out of the five novels in this outstanding historical mystery series, and I... |
 The Phoenix |  The Back of BeyondBest Price: $29.99 Two young men from a remote Scottish village decide to make their fortunes in London, but... |  Parzival and the Stone From Heaven: A Grail Romance Retold For Our TimeBest Price: $47.69 I enjoyed the only other retellings of the Parzival legends I've read, "Parzival's... |  War and PeaceBest Price: $2.19 A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of... |  Vagabond - The Grail Quest Continues |
 Emperor: The Gods of War (Emperor 4) |  A LikenessBest Price: $2.99 I read the prologue, and hated it. The prose was unintelligible and clumsily written. However, I... |  The Queen of Subtleties |  The Naqib's DaughterBest Price: $15.67 Two hundred years ago a Western power - France - invaded an Islamic country - Egypt - and tried... |  Man of HonourBest Price: $111.32 A thoroughly enjoyable fast paced read. Man of Honour introduces Lt. Jack Steel in an... |
| The Phoenix | The Back of Beyond Best Price: $29.99 Two young men from a remote Scottish village decide to make their fortunes in London, but... | Parzival and the Stone From Heaven: A Grail Romance Retold For Our Time Best Price: $47.69 I enjoyed the only other retellings of the Parzival legends I've read, "Parzival's... | War and Peace Best Price: $2.19 A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of... | Vagabond - The Grail Quest Continues |
| Emperor: The Gods of War (Emperor 4) | A Likeness Best Price: $2.99 I read the prologue, and hated it. The prose was unintelligible and clumsily written. However, I... | The Queen of Subtleties | The Naqib's Daughter Best Price: $15.67 Two hundred years ago a Western power - France - invaded an Islamic country - Egypt - and tried... | Man of Honour Best Price: $111.32 A thoroughly enjoyable fast paced read. Man of Honour introduces Lt. Jack Steel in an... |
 Conspiracy of PaperBest Price: $7.16 I read this debut novel by David Liss - a historical novel set in the London of the early 1700s,... |  The End of WarBest Price: $1.48 The previous book by David Robbins, WAR OF THE RATS, based on the German siege of Stalingrad... |  Shogun (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)Best Price: $14.74 When I first read this book, I was nine years old and not as intelligent as I am now. What... |  Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American RevolutionBest Price: $59.95 Jeff Shaara's latest work takes you back to the time of the American Revolution (and... |  Nefer the Silent (Stone of Light)Christian Jacq's latest novel is technically very punchy in style, sacrificing scene... |
 For the KingBest Price: $2.68 It has been a real treat for me this month to read and review not only this upcoming novel by... |  Mauritius CommandBest Price: $150.75 Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore without a command until his friend, Stephen Maturin, arrives with... |  Letter of MarqueBest Price: $91.99 Struck off the Navy List for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey takes command of a privateer... |  Disraeli rising |  Fiona |
 The Riddle of the Shipwrecked SpinsterBest Price: $37.36 No one can write a swashbuckling historical novel complete with treasonous plots and daring... |  Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman EmpireBest Price: $5.75 Ford's second novel is on the ascension and fall of Julian the Apostate, Constantine the... |  Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and ShebaBest Price: $3.99 I did have a chance to see the galleys of this novel before publication last year and even give... |  The QuestBest Price: $2.30 I am a 30+ year fan of Mr. Smith's books... That being said, IMO it appears Mr. Smith has... |  Wolf Hall: A NovelBest Price: $6.28 Deservedly a Booker Prize winner, this ambitious story conveys a novel of ideas as well as of... |
 Sea of PoppiesBest Price: $4.86 I love this kind of book with an epic scale and a cast of eccentric, unforgettable characters. ... |  Billy the Kid: The Legend of El ChivatoBest Price: $17.73 I have read just about everything about Billy and the Lincoln County War, and this book is the... |  The Sound of ThunderBest Price: $5.00 Where do you find time to read today? Me? I'm a mass transit commuter with time to knock out... |  WarlockBest Price: $11.92 Mr. Smith has done a beautiful work of transcending us into the magical world of Egypt. With an... |  La's Orchestra Saves the World: A NovelBest Price: $7.01 La's Orchestra Saves the World is an easy, a smooth and delightful reading. The story does... |
 The Cape Ann: A NovelBest Price: $8.54 I appreciate sending me a new copy of the book CAPE ANN after my dog chewed the first one up... |  NefertitiBest Price: $2.73 Neferiti by Michelle Moran is the fictional accounting of Nefertiti's rise to power in Egypt... |  The Eagle and the WolvesBest Price: $8.62 Simon Scarrow's The Eagle & The Wolves is an enjoyable light read, worth reading to the... |  A World Away: A NovelBest Price: $8.75 A World Away reveals one of America?s most versatile writers at his romantic and elegiac best.... |  Dancer: A NovelBest Price: $2.01 Big, bold and audacious, Dancer will probably anger the ballet purists, but those who like... |
 Unicorn's BloodBest Price: $3.25 The Elizabethans loved to plot and intrigue, and Patricia Finney sends a most unusual cast of... |  The Red TentBest Price: $1.90 Dinah explains from the first chapter that if you want to know about a woman you must ask her... |  The Last English KingBest Price: $24.40 The Last English King is, of course, a slight historical inaccuracy (Harold being half... |  Shutter Island: A NovelBest Price: $1.84 This is one of the best books I've ever read...I could not put it down until I finished it! ... |  The Falcon at the Portal: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)Best Price: $5.72 The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters is packed with deeper emotions and bigger surprises... |
 Island Beneath the Sea: A NovelBest Price: $12.00 Praising the Willful Women of Isabel Allende's Island Beneath the Sea SunPost Weekly May... |  Lords of the North: A Novel (Saxon Chronicles #3)Best Price: $6.73 I've read a fair few novels & generally find that three things make for a great story:... |  Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A NovelBest Price: $2.66 Vanora Bennett's "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" is a fascinating, well researched... |  Serena: A NovelBest Price: $6.41 How's this for a wow of an opener: "When Pemberton returned to the North Carolina... |  Agincourt: A NovelBest Price: $4.55 Mr Cornwell is an author I have come to know and greatly appreciate in recent years. Many... |
 Life and FateBest Price: $11.41 Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate" - the Awful Truth of History 02/12/09 | by Ian... |  August 1914 (The Red Wheel, Vol. 1)Best Price: $49.98 Title: August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Pages: 622 Time spent on the "to... |  Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)Best Price: $6.00 Certainly, Ceremony was a hard book to read nevertheless a good one. Even though I'm Puerto... |  A Place of Greater SafetyI could say that I've spent the last week of my life immersing myself in the minutiae of the... |  Sharpe's Eagle (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #8)Best Price: $3.70 This is probably one of the best Sharpe novels in the series. It was one of the first that... |
 A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup, Vol. 1)Best Price: $0.01 One of the great perils for successful authors must be that point when they decide to... |  The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $0.50 "The Red Badge of Courage," written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is... |  The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tale)Best Price: $6.15 This review pertains to the Penguin Classic edition, which has a fascinating introductory essay... |  The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $13.74 Although I'm a lover of historical fiction, especially the 19th century historical romances... |  A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.94 This was Lermontov's only novel, published a year before his death in a duel at the age of... |
 JackdawsBest Price: $2.99 In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca , Ken Follett... |  A Journal of the Plague Year (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $4.06 Defoe has pulled off something brilliant here. Although he was only 5 years old in 1665 (the... |  Cleopatra's Daughter: A NovelBest Price: $6.97 4.5 out of 5 Cleopatra's Daughter is the story of Selene, who after the death of her... | ||
See also for Historical Books