[MR] Book List

[Michael Beedy]

I am actually working on writing a Historical Fiction and have read several HFs to get a feel for the writing style.
   
  A couple I have read recently are:
   
  Priscilla Royal - Wine of Violence.  Set in an English priory.  Decent book.  
  Philipa Gregory - The Constant Princess.  Like her others, some historical accruacy mistakes, but a good story.  Some of it is far fetched but any HF writer will tell you that they are fiction novelists not historians, and to them the story is more important than the history. 
  John Whyte - The Templer novels.  Very good series!
   
  Hope this helps, 
  Lord Sebastien de Vymont
  Aspiring Historical Fiction Novelist.

". ." <lizmaekate at hotmail.com> wrote:
  
The Other Boleyn Girl and the Illuminator? Ouch. Neither of those are ones I would bother with...way too many mistakes and too much "modern" ideals enter into both of those.

However, a good resource in order to find any historical fiction (good and bad) is at http://www.historicalnovels.info/Medieval.html. Hopefully, that will help. The adive I'd give with any book, is to look it up on amazon and read the one star ratings. They typically give a good general overview of the "bad" ascpets of the book so you know what to expect in terms of historical accuracy and writing abilities.

-Isabella
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