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: H. Rider Haggard
Published by: Wildside Press
Submitted By: David Melass
The People of The Mist by H. Rider Haggard has some of the themes and features that I have come to enjoy in Mr. Cornwell’s work. Honor, courage, greed, magic, deception all come into play in this work as well…
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Written by: C. J. Sansom
Published by: Pan Books
Submitted By: Robert Beckman
It is 1537 and King Henry VIII has dissolved the Catholic Church. Thomas Cromwell, Henry’s vicar general, has sent one of his commissioners to the Scarnsea monastery to oversee its destruction but is murdered. Cromwell sends Matthew Shardlake to investigate….
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Written by: Steven Erikson
Published by: Bantam Press
Submitted By: Charles Mailloux
High fantasy, thoroughly elaborated with an epic feel. The debut of a glittering and promising series. Cannot be missed if you liked ( or loved) the Arthur books. A Tale of The Malazan Book of The Fallen is a twisted…
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Written by: David Blixt
Published by: St. Martin's Press
Submitted By: David Blixt
This is embarrassing, an author hawking his wares. Doubly so as the early press for the novel billed me as writing “in the style of Bernard Cornwell.” That is blatantly false – my writing resembles his as much as an…
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Written by: John Biggins
Published by: McBooks Press
Submitted By: Robert Ryan
A novel following the adventures of an officer in the Austro-Hungarian navy during WWI. No I’d never have picked it up either…but, I’m so glad I did. The main character is a solid, emphathetic soul with a lovely sense of…
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Written by: James McGee
Published by: harperCollins publishers
Submitted By: Brian
The Adventures of Matthew Hawkwood, Bow Street Runner, as he looks for the murderer of a naval courier in the Squaler of St Giles Rookery
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Written by: Mika Waltari
Published by: Putnam
Submitted By: Tero Haataja
I have enjoyed Bernard Cornwell’s books as well as Mika Waltari’s. And I think Mika Waltari’s style is pretty much similar to Bernard Cornwell. At least in finnish I can find resemblance between the two. Also the 2nd part The…
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Written by: Jack Whyte
Published by: St. Martin's Press
Submitted By: Toya Ryan
I came across this book at B&N on a clearance table and the cover was so captivating I had to have it. Once I started reading I absolutely could not put it down. I started reading that evening at 6:30…
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Written by: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Published by: Fredonia Books
Submitted By: Eric Stern
Extremely exciting trilogy that makes you stay up to the early hours for fear of putting it down.
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Written by: Sharon K. Penman
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
Submitted By: Sean O'Donoghue
Excellent book on medieval English history, the treachery of war, religion and politics. Penman paints a vivid picture of the early civil war between Stephen and his cousin, the Empress Maude, this story tells of a long fight to win…
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