RESOURCES MAJOR AUTHORS READER GUIDE Sarah L. Johnson. Historical Fiction: a guide Kate Alcott to the genre. Sarah L. Johnson. Historical Fiction II: a Geraldine Brooks guide to the genre. Elizabeth Chadwick Lynda G. Adamson. World Historical Fiction: Tracy Chevalier An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Jennifer Chiaverini Young Adults Bernard Cornwell ———————————- Esi Edugyan Historical Novel Society Barbara Erskine historicalnovelsociety.org Michael Faber Margaret Forster Historical Novels.Info Diana Gabaldon www.historicalnovels.info Amitav Ghosh C. W. Gortner Reading the Past Sandra Gulland readingthepast.blogspot.ca Robert Harris Conn Iggulden Passages to the Past www.passagestothepast.com Ben Kane Susanna Kearsley The Detective and the Toga histmyst.org Colleen McCullough Paula Mclain 5797 Cowrie Street | Sechelt, BC Historical Fiction for Children & Young Adults Kate Morton bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters T: 604 885 3260 Sharon Kay Penman F: 604 885 5183 Kate Quinn Literature for kids—Historical Fiction Jennifer Robson E: [email protected] http://litkidz.com/books/historical-fiction Edward Rutherfurd W: Sechelt.bc.libraries.coop C. J. Sansom A Brief History of Historical Fiction Eva Stachniak https://bit.ly/2XTwenf Rose Tremain M. K. Tod. 7 Elements of historical fiction. Beatriz Williams https://bit.ly/2GivWLS Jack Whyte

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Historical fiction features stories If you like Tracy Chevalier...try Kate Alcott, If you like Sandra Gulland...try Kate Alcott, Geraldine Brooks, Stephanie Cowell, Daph- Patricia Bracewell, Elizabeth Chadwick, Ha- set anywhere from Biblical Times ne du Maurier, Sarah Dunant, Helen Hum- zel Gaynor, Margaret George, C.W. Gortner, to the mid and later 20th century. phreys, Teresa Kishkan, Lucy Pick, Beth Helen Hollick, Michelle Moran, Diana Nor- Defined by The Historical Novel So- Powning, Susan Vreeland man, Edith Pargeter, Sharon Kay Penman, Kate Quinn, Eva Stachniak, Reay Tannahill, ciety as having been: "...written at If you like Jennifer Robson...try Melanie Heather Webb. least fifty years after the events de- Dobson, Jennifer Donnelly, Hazel Gaynor, Daisy Goodwin, Sarah Harrison, Linda If you like Cynthia Harrod-Eagles…try scribed, or … by someone who was Holeman, Brenda Jagger, Ami McKay, Kate Pamela Belle, Winston Graham, Susan not alive at the time of those Quinn, Alyson Richman, Jennifer Ryan, Lin- Howatch, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Norah events..."*, the genre is rich with da Spalding, M. K. Tod Lofts, Jean Plaidy, Reay Tannahill variety, including such sub-genres If you like Kristin Hannah…try Erica James, If you like Hilary Mantel...try Peter as time-travel, reincarnation, mys- Martha Hall Kelly, Ann Mah, Susan Meiss- Ackroyd, Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Sarah Du- ner, Heather Morris, Kate Mosse, Kate nant, Dorothy Dunnett, Umberto Eco, Mi- tery, and fantasy as well as bio- Quinn, Jennifer Ryan, Roxanne Veletzos, chael Ennis, Margaret Forster, Robert graphical, and alternate history fic- Robin Wells Graves, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally O’Reilly, C.J. tion. It entertains and educates, Sansom, Rose Tremain, , If you like Alan Furst...try Rennie Airth, Se- Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe taking its readers into the past to bastian Faulks, Robert Harris, Maureen Jen- experience life in a different time. nings (Tom Tyler series), Stuart Kaminsky, If you like Elizabeth Peters...try Rhys Bow- Philip Kerr, Julian Rathbone, Martin Cruz en, Barbara Cleverly, Ariana Franklin, Kerry Many fans of the genre say they Smith, Martin Walker, Carlos Ruiz Zafo n Greenwood, Maureen Jennings, Anne Perry, hated history in school, but came to Iona Whishaw, Jacqueline Winspear If you like Diana Gabaldon...try Sara love it through reading works of Donati, Barbara Erskine, Elizabeth Harris, If you like Bernard Cornwell… try Jean M. historical fiction. Susanna Kearsley, Kate Mosse, Lucinda Ri- Auel, T.F. Banks, Bryce Courtenay, Michael ley, Anya Seton Faber, David Gemmell, Amitav Ghosh, C.C. Humpreys, Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane, Guy If you like Patrick O’Brian...try David Gavriel Kay, David Liss, Morgan Llywelyn, Donachie, C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, Allan Mallinson, Colleen McCullough, Mary *Lee, Richard. "Defining the Genre." Dewey Lambdin, Douglas Reeman, S. Thom- Renault, Anthony Riches, Wilbur Smith, Jack Historical Novel Society. Historical as Russell, Tim Severin, Julian Stockwin Whyte, Leon Uris Novel Society. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. If you like Jo Beverley...try Mary Balogh, If you like Edward Rutherfurd...try Michael Nicola Cornick, Claire Delacroix, Deborah Ennis, Ken Follett, Robert Harris, John Jakes, Hale, Georgette Heyer, Elizabeth Hoyt, David Liss, James Michener, Leon Uris, Gore Madeline Hunter, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Put- Vidal, Herman Wouk ney, Barbara Samuel, Kathryn Smith