A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HISTORICAL FICTION // book recommendations throughout history 💫📚

A beginner's guide to historical fiction - everything you need to know (plus lots of great book recommendations!)

Huge thanks to The History Quill for sponsoring today's video! NOTE 18.01.24 - The History Quill no longer offer their book club service. Sorry about that! For lots of historical fiction recommendations, please check the recs in this video, plus the hundreds of amazing comments from viewers ☺️

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:50 {AD} The History Quill Book Club
01:51 What is historical fiction?
05:13 Key Tropes, Themes and Subgenres
08:14 Book Recommendations For Every Era

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ANCIENT ERA (PRE 500 AD)
➭ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978140...
➭ Circe by Madeline Miller: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978140...
➭ The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978183...
➭ Sistersong by Lucy Hounsom: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978152...
➭ Fire From Heaven (Alexander the Great series) by Mary Renault: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978034...

MIDDLE AGES (500 AD - 1500)
➭ The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978085...
➭ The Wars of the Roses Stormbird by Conn Igulden: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978071...
➭ She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978152...
➭ The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978009...
➭ The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978150...
➭ Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978036...
➭ The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978000...

EARLY MODERN PERIOD (1500 - 1760)
➭ The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978000...
➭ The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978147...
➭ Alison Weir's Six Queens Series: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978147...
➭ Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978147...
➭ Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978000...

INDUSTRIAL ERA (1760 - 1840)
➭ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978178...
➭ Poldark by Winston Graham: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978144...
➭ Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978000...
➭ The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes-Gowar: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/4768/978178...

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