Discover historical fiction authors, their complete bibliographies, and series.
Pat Barker is the author of the Regeneration Trilogy, three novels about shell-shocked officers and the doctor who treats them, which are among the most admired books ever written about the First World War. The last of them, The Ghost…
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 Pargeter, the Shropshire writer who created Brother Cadfael, the Benedictine monk who solves murders in 12th-century Shrewsbury. The twenty Cadfael novels are often credited with popularising the historical mystery as a genre,…
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…
Steven Saylor has spent more than thirty years bringing ancient Rome to life, one murder at a time. His detective, Gordianus the Finder, walks the streets of the late Republic while Cicero, Caesar and Pompey fight over its future, and…
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 wrote more than 100 books in a career that ran from 1979 to her death in 2023, and most of them are set in the gaslit streets of Victorian London. Her two long series, one following Inspector Thomas…
Diana Gabaldon wrote Outlander for practice, to learn how a novel works, and ended up creating one of the best-loved series in modern historical fiction. Her books mix history, romance, adventure and time travel in a way that no publisher’s…
Elizabeth Chadwick is one of Britain’s most acclaimed medieval historical fiction authors, hailed by the Historical Novel Society as “the best writer of medieval fiction currently around.” With over 33 novels spanning the 11th to 14th centuries, she has brought…