Reading List: Historical Fiction: P - S

This list of historical fiction novels continues ....


Felix J Palma
The Map of Time
The Map of the Sky


Marion Palmer
The White Boar


Edith Pargeter
The Marriage of Meggotta
The Brothers of Gwynedd (Brothers of Gwynedd #1-4)
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury
The Heaven Tree Trilogy


Jean-Francois Parot
The Châtelet Apprentice: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations


Kenneth Parsons
Our Mad Brother Villon


Boris Pasternack
Doctor Zhivago


Dawn Patitucci
The Queen's Prophet


Mark Patton
An Accidental King


Frank Payton
Hawkwood's Sword


William Peak
The Oblate’s Confession


Ian Pears
An Instance of the Fingerpost


Sharon Kay Penman
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
The Reckoning (Welsh Princes, #3)
The Land Beyond the Sea
The Sunne in Splendour
When Christ and His Saints Slept (Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
Time and Chance (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2)
Devil's Brood (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3)
Lionheart (Plantagenets #4)
A King's Ransom (Plantagenets #5)
The Queen's Man (Justin de Quincy, #1)
Prince of Darkness (Justin de Quincy, #4)


Arturo Perez-Reverte
Captain Alatriste (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #1)


Sophie Perinot
Médicis Daughter: A Novel of Marguerite de Valois
The Sister Queens


Anne Perry
The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #1)
Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)
Paragon Walk (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #3)
Resurrection Row (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #4)
The Hyde Park Headsman (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #14)
The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)
A Dangerous Mourning (William Monk, #2)
Defend and Betray (William Monk, #3)
A Sudden, Fearful Death (William Monk, #4)
The Sins of the Wolf (William Monk, #5)


Elizabeth Peters
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
The Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody, #2)
The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)
Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4)
The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, #5)
The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6)
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7)
The Hippopotamus Pool (Amelia Peabody, #8)
Seeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody, #9)
The Jackal's Head


Ellis Peters
A Rare Benedictine (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, prequel stories 0.1-0.3)
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
St. Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #5)
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #6)
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #14)
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)
The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)
The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)
The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19)
The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #21)


Maryanne Philip
A Borgia Daughter Dies


Lester Picker
The First Pharaoh


Glen Pierce
King's Ransom



David Pilling
Nowhere Was There Peace
The White Hawk: Revenge (The White Hawk, #1)
Folville's Law (The John Swale Chronicles, #1)
The Half-Hanged Man (The Half-Hanged Man, #1-3)


Sarah Pinborough
Mayhem


Jean Plaidy
Madame Serpent (Catherine de Medici, #1)
The Italian Woman (Catherine de Medici, #2)
Queen Jezebel (Catherine de Medici, #3)
Madonna of the Seven Hills (Lucrezia Borgia, #1)
Light on Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia, #2)
A Triptych of Poisoners
The Passionate Enemies (Norman Trilogy, #3)
The Queen's Secret (Queens of England, #7)
The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York (Queens of England, #8)
The Rose Without a Thorn (Queens of England, #11)
Epitaph for Three Women (Plantagenet Saga, #12)
Isabella and Ferdinand 1-3 (Isabella and Ferdinand #1-3)
The Bastard King
Uneasy Lies the Head


Phillip Platts
The Thirteenth Disciple


Sara Poole
Poison (The Poisoner Mysteries, #1)
The Borgia Betrayal (The Poisoner Mysteries, #2)
The Borgia Mistress (The Poisoner Mysteries, #3)


MJ Porter
The First Queen of England
Brunanburh - A novel of 937 (Chronicles of the English, #1)


Jeremy Potter
A Trail of Blood


Oliver Potzsch
Book of the Night (The Black Musketeers #1)
The Hangman's Daughter (The Hangman's Daughter, #1)
The Dark Monk (The Hangman's Daughter, #2)
The Beggar King (The Hangman's Daughter, #3)
The Council of Twelve (The Hangman's Daughter #7)


EM Powell
The Lord of Ireland (The Fifth Knight, #3)
The Monastery Murders (Stanton & Barling, #2)


Anne Powers
Eleanor: The Passionate Queen


Steven Price
By Gaslight


Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights


CS Quinn
The Thief Taker (The Thief Taker #1)
Death Magic (The Thief Taker #1.5)
Fire Catcher (The Thief Taker #2)
Dark Stars (The Thief Taker #3)
The Changeling Murders (The Thief Taker, #4)


Kate Quinn
The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)
The Lion and the Rose (The Borgias, #2)


Arlene Radasky
The Fox


Arthur Ransome
Swallows & Amazons


JP Reedman
Tales of the White Boar: Short Stories and Poems About Richard III


Matt Rees
A Name in Blood


Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front


Emmanuel Rhoides
Pope Joan: Translated & Adapted from the Greek


Jason Paul Rice
Two Heads Two Spikes (The Pearl of Wisdom Saga, #1)



Philip Rickman
The Bones of Avalon (John Dee Papers #1)


Stephen J Rivele
Booke of Days


Candance Robb
The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)
The Lady Chapel (Owen Archer, #2)
The Nun's Tale (Owen Archer, #3)
The King's Bishop (Owen Archer, #4)
The Cross-Legged Knight (Owen Archer, #8)
A Trust Betrayed (Margaret Kerr, #1)


Jennifer Roberson
Lady of the Glen: A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe


Neal Roberts
A Second Daniel (In the Den of the English Lion #1)


Mercedes Rochelle
Godwine Kingmaker


Martha Rofheart
Fortune Made His Sword
Burning Sappho


Dilys Rose
Unspeakable


Clarissa Ross
Only Make-Believe


Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac

Tania Roxborogh

Bloodlines

Christopher Rush
Will


Alex Rutherford
The Tainted Throne


Edward Rutherford
The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1)


Rafael Sabatini
The Sea-Hawk
Captain Blood


Isabel San Sebastián
Imperator


CJ Samson
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)


N Gemini Sasson
Uneasy Lies the Crown, A Novel of Owain Glyndwr


John Sawney
The Ruin


MG Scarsbrook
Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia
The Marlowe Conspiracy


Frank Schatzing
Death and the Devil


Michael Schmicker
The Witch of Napoli


Helena P Schrader
Rebels Against Tyranny: Civil War in the Crusader States


Eva Scott
Barbarian Bride (Romancing the Romans #2)


Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Waverley
Rob Roy
The Bride of Lammermoor 


Lois Scouten
Messala: The Return from Ruin - A Sequel to Ben-Hur


Donald Seaman
Chase Royal


Desmond Seaward
The Demon Brood


Kate Sedley
Death and the Chapman (Roger the Chapman, #1)
The Plymouth Cloak (Roger the Chapman, #2)
The Weaver's Tale (Roger the Chapman, #3)
The Holy Innocents (Roger the Chapman, #4)
Nine Men Dancing (Roger the Chapman, #12)


Ian Serraillier
The Silver Sword


Mary Sharratt
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen
Daughters of the Witching Hill


Killarney Sheffield
To Love a Horseguard


Graham Shelby
The Knights of Dark Renown
The Kings of Vain Intent
The Edge of the Blade
The Oath and the Sword
The Wolf at the Door
The Devil is Loose


Samuel Shellabarger
Prince of Foxes


John Shors
Beneath A Marble Sky


Neville Shute
A Town Like Alice


Henryk Sienkiewicz
Quo Vadis


James Sinclair
Warrior Queen


MG Sinclair
The Cardinal's Man


JF Slattery
Wisdom and Rubies: A tale of crime and misadventure in nineteenth century London


Goce Smilevski
Freud's Sister
Anne Easter Smith
A Rose for the Crown
Daughter of York


Jane Smiley
The Greenlanders


Anne Easter Smith
Daughter of York
A Rose for the Crown


JD Smith
The Rise of Zenobia (Overlord, #1)

Richard B Sorensen
Unholy Grail - The Story of Judas Iscariot and Mary Magdalene


Norman Spinrad
The Druid King


Eva Stachniak
Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great


David Stedman
The Chronicles of Pauncefoot and Longshanks


Ben Stevens
The Ennin Mysteries (84 books on kindle)


Robert Louis Stevenson
Master of Ballantrae
Kidnapped
The Black Arrow
Treasure Island


Kim Stokely
Woman of Flames


David Stokes
Angles or Angels?: To unite a kingdom, a family will be divided forever


Irving Stone
The Agony and the Ecstasy


Elizabeth Storrs
The Wedding Shroud (Tales of Ancient Rome, #1)


AD Swanston
Incendium (Christopher Radcliff, #1)


Andrew Swanston
The King's Spy (Thomas Hill, #1)


Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels


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