I assume you're here at this website because you like my books. Good. And that also means you might like the books I enjoy reading, and that all of us might enjoy the books that you read, so this is simply a place where we can exchange news of books - any books - not just historical novels. Tell us if you've read something wonderful and entertaining, and we'll post your recommendations and reviews here. And, please, let us know what you think of these recommendations!
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Written by: Charles C Mann
Published by: Vintage
From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated…
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Written by: Jason Born
Published by: CreateSpace
This book is posted by the Author. The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had…
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Written by: Ken and Denise Guest
Published by: Harper Collins
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
Great Britain is rich in history and strewn with old battlegrounds. For centuries, cultures diverse in language and customs have fought to gain control of a land with green rolling hills, wild forests, and thriving farmsteads. Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Scots….
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Written by: Iain Banks
Published by: Orbit
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
Jernau Morat Gurgeh has mastered every known game in the The Culture (a human/machine symbiotic society). Bored with constant success, he travels many light years to the distant Empire of Azad – both ruthless and powerful – boasting a game…
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Written by: Max Hastings
Published by: Harper Perennial
Submitted By: Robert Douglas
One of Britain’s leading historians examines the Pacific Theatre of World War II, towards its end, in 1944-1945. This detailed narrative pulls us into a titanic struggle between the United States and the Japanese Empire. The campaigns were brutal, bloody,…
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Written by: Diana Gabaldon
Published by: Random House
Submitted By: Viviana Mroc
I have always been an historical fiction fan and Bernard Cornwell has been one of my favourites. Browsing this great Reading Club I discovered many titles I have really enjoyed, and looking forward to enhancing my bookshelves with some of…
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Written by: Richard Foreman
Published by: Endeavour Press Ltd
Submitted By: Emily Fenwick
Encompassing and Enjoyable. Every month sees the release of a new novel set around Rome, but few will prove more enjoyable or intelligent than this one. Augustus: Son of Rome encompasses action, politics, philosophy, a sweet love story (between Marcus…
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Written by: Alex Rutherford
Published by: Headline Review
Submitted By: David M. Dunaj
Raiders from the North is the first book of five in the Empire of the Moghul series (the fifth novel is being released on July 3, 2012). It’s a really fine read in the tradition of Conn Iggulden’s Genghis Khan/Mongol…
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‘Commando’ comics meet WW II ‘Battle Fiction’. Sometimes compared in style to Bernard Cornwell, James Holland has introduced a new character into the realms of Battle Fiction in Jack Tanner. Based on the events in Norway in 1940, the proceedings…
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Written by: Michael Shaara
Published by: Polygon
Submitted By: Jon Arden
Puliitzer prize winning novel about Gettysburg. American civil war does not get any better than this. I’ve been scrolling thru the past book reviews for likely books to read. While doing so I noticed Jon Arden’s review of The…
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