Discover historical fiction authors, their complete bibliographies, and series.
Naomi Novik is the author who asked one of the most delightful questions in alternate history fiction: what if the Napoleonic Wars were fought with dragons? The answer, across nine novels of the Temeraire series, made her one of the…
Harry Turtledove is the undisputed master of alternate history fiction, a historian-turned-novelist who has spent four decades asking one deceptively simple question: what if history had gone differently? Dubbed “The Master of Alternate History” by Publishers Weekly, he has built…
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…
Pat Barker is one of the most important British novelists of the past half-century, and the Regeneration Trilogy stands as her most enduring achievement. Three novels set in the closing years of the First World War, combining real historical figures…
Simon Scarrow is one of Britain’s most prolific and consistently entertaining historical fiction authors, best known for the Eagles of the Empire series, which follows Roman soldiers Cato and Macro across 24 novels and counting. With over 4 million copies…
Ellis Peters is the pen name of Edith Mary Pargeter, one of the most important figures in the history of historical crime fiction. Her Brother Cadfael Chronicles, set in and around a Benedictine abbey in twelfth-century Shrewsbury, are widely credited…
Philip Kerr wrote one of the most morally complex and brilliantly sustained historical detective series of the last century. His fourteen Bernie Gunther novels follow a sardonic Berlin private investigator through the darkest decades of the twentieth century, from Weimar…
If you love ancient Rome and want to explore it through the eyes of someone who actually lived there, rather than through the grand sweep of emperors and generals, Steven Saylor is your author. His Roma Sub Rosa series follows…