Discover historical fiction authors, their complete bibliographies, and series.
Jennifer Saint takes the women that Greek mythology pushed to the edges of its stories and puts them at the centre. Ariadne, Elektra, Atalanta, Hera and Aphrodite have all been given their own novels, and four of them became Sunday…
Dorothy Dunnett wrote some of the most demanding and most rewarding historical fiction of the twentieth century. Her two great sequences follow brilliant, secretive men across Renaissance Europe, from the Scottish Borders to Constantinople, Timbuktu, and Moscow, and they have…
Philip K. Dick wrote one of the founding novels of alternate history, a book that asked what daily life in America would look like if the Axis had won the Second World War. He also wrote more than forty other…
Colleen McCullough wrote two of the most ambitious historical novels of the twentieth century and then kept going. The Thorn Birds turned a sheep station in New South Wales into one of the most widely read family sagas ever written,…
Len Deighton spent six decades as one of Britain’s defining thriller writers, standing alongside John le Carré as one of the two authors who took the spy novel out of glamorous Bond territory and into a grubbier, more believable Cold…
Naomi Novik asked one of the best questions in alternate history: what if the Napoleonic Wars had been fought with dragons? Her answer, the nine-novel Temeraire series, made her name, and she has since won the Nebula, Locus, British Fantasy…
Harry Turtledove has spent more than four decades asking one deceptively simple question: what if history had gone differently? Publishers Weekly called him “The Master of Alternate History”, and no other novelist has explored the idea at such length or…
There is a reasonable argument that George MacDonald Fraser wrote the greatest comic historical fiction series in the English language. The Flashman Papers, twelve novels and one short story collection published between 1969 and 2005, follow the fictional Victorian soldier…
Alice Winn announced herself as one of the most exciting new voices in historical fiction with her debut novel In Memoriam, published in 2023. The book, a devastating love story set in the trenches of World War I, won the…
Sebastian Faulks is one of Britain’s most celebrated literary novelists, best known for writing historical fiction that transforms the horrors of war into profoundly human stories. His 1993 novel Birdsong has sold more than three million copies worldwide and is…