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100 Must-read Historical Novels

100 Must-read Historical Novels
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Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Reads series depicts 100 of the finest novels published in this sector, with a further 500 recommendations. A wide range of classic works and key authors are covered: Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Attwood, Sarah Waters, Victor Hugo and Robert Louis Stevenson to name a few. If you want to expand your reading in this area, or gain a deeper understanding of the genre - this is the best place to start! Inside you'll find: · An extended Introduction to historical fiction · 100 titles highlighted A-Z by novel with 500 Read-on recommendations · Read-on-a-theme categories · Award winners and book club recommendations. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Reads series depicts 100 of the finest historical novels, with a further 500 recommendations. If you want to expand your reading in this area, or gain a deeper understanding of the genre - this is the best place to start! Nick Rennison is a bookseller, editor and freelance writer. He reviews new titles for Waterstones Books Quarterly, and is the author of the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide, 100 Must-Read Classic Novels, and co-author of 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels and 100 Must-Read Crime Novels. A highly popular genre of fiction with a huge fanbase and many devoted websites and organisations Historical fiction shares territory with other genres (crime and romance) - a large and broad market Of Richard and Judy's 8 summer reads last year, 4 were historical novels
A&C Black; September 2009
192 pages; ISBN 9781408136065
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9781408136065
9781408113967
1408136066