Discover historical fiction authors, their complete bibliographies, and series.
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…
Few writers have left a mark on English fiction as deep or as lasting as Daphne du Maurier. Her novels are atmospheric, psychologically unsettling, and utterly gripping, mixing gothic suspense with rich historical settings and an uncanny feeling that something…
If you have ever wished a novel could show you an entire civilisation from birth to the present day, Edward Rutherfurd writes exactly that. His books are enormous, ambitious, and unlike almost anything else in historical fiction. Each one takes…
Anne Perry spent more than four decades writing some of the most meticulously observed Victorian mysteries, building a body of work that tops 100 novels and making her one of the most prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. Her…