Seconding the Mary Renault, over here.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 20 August 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark Klobas, Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Rose Macaulay's 'They Were Defeated' - set a few years before the English Civil War with plenty of interesting characters popping up - John Milton, Henry More, John Cleveland, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick. Lots of 17th Century poetry in it, but still hugely readable.
― stroker ace, Monday, 18 August 2008 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Some Canadian historical fiction I've enjoyed recently: Icefields by Thomas Wharton and The Outlander by Gil Adamson.
― franny glass, Monday, 18 August 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
been on a kick lately: just finished nicola griffith's "hild" which i really loved.
also did luther blissett's Q (mostly very good) and its sequal "altai" (less good)
what should i do next, the dunnett series?
― max, Sunday, 23 November 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link