| Historical Novels
Currently I'm reading the Shardlake novels by Sansom - up to Sovereign now , and really enjoying the series. I really like historical novels - not necessarily factually correct , but based on real events
My favourites are Bernard Cornwells's Grail series (btw have Thomas of Hookton's adventures come to an end?) and of course Sharpe. I also enjoyed the Hornblower series , but the character portrayed in the novels is far more believable than that in the tv series
Another series I have tried to get into is Cadfael - I loved the tv series with Derek Jacobi (as I did with his portrayl of Claudius from the Graves' novels) but the books seem to be quite hard work to get into (unlike the I Claudius ones which are some of the most enjoyable I've read)
Does anyone else enjoy historical fiction , and are there any other novels I should try - one I've been thinking about is the Julius Casear novels by Iggulden - are these any good? |