Favourite Historical writer, series, character (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I am a great fan of historical fiction, from many periods, Roman, Saxons, Vikings, the Crusades, Napoleonic and WW2.
I read around 20 histrical fiction writers which include,
Roman - Fabbri, Scarrow, Riches, Goldworthy,
Saxon/Viking - Scarrow, Low, Kristian, Cornwell,
Cruades - Guillou, Whyte, Harper, Young
Napoleonic - Cornwell, Goldworthy, Connery, Gale, Forester, Scarrow, Kent, Stockwin.
WW2 - Gale, Asher, Reeman, Holland

I know there are no US periods above and i have over 50 L'Amour and Gilman [great escapism], plus have read some Shaara. Nelson. J and others.

Which historical writer, character, series is a favourite of yours?

 

[Jedburgh]

Patrick O'Brian - Aubrey /Maturin novels
George Macdonald Fraser - Flashman

 

[bradleyl30]

RW Peake - Titus Pullus, his descendants and Diocles and his descendants (if you like the Aubrey/Maturin dynamic from POB you will like this), plus I love his depictions of Julius Caesar and Germanicus
Christian Cameron - Arimnestos of Plataea and William Gold
Patrick O'Brien - Stephen Maturin and Jack Aubrey
Robert Fabbri's Vespasian
Helena Schrader's Balian d'Ibelin and his scions
Glyn Ilyffe's Odysseus
Colleen McCollough's Rome Series
J K Swift's Hospitaller Saga - Brother Foulques de Villaret who saves the Order after the fall Acre
Nigel Tranter's Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. I love how you read the story from very different view points when you read each of his stories of these men. I think it is fantastic to read the same scenes from Bruce's noble point of view after reading it from Wallace's more common or minor nobility point of view

Honorable Mentions:
William Kelso's Soldier of Rome (I like that his initial characters are not that heroic, but then become heroes. Plus, I like his focus on the Batavians)
Seamus O'Griffin's Gallowglass series (especially as it has to do with my mother's clan, the MacDonalds)

 

[zblang]

My favorite historical fiction writer is Sharon Kay Penman

She wrote a few shorter mysteries that I didn’t love, but her main works are amazing.

If looking for a taste and want to read just one, Sunne in Splendour is my favorite