Born in London in 1944, Bernard Cornwell, is a British writer of historical novels, famous for being the creator of Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe but also for his Last Kingdom stories about the making of England. He worked first as a teacher, before joining BBC Television for the next 10 years. He began his…
As I was saying, this series was written by Bernard Cornwell. It chronicles the life of Richard Sharpe in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe was born in poverty. He joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of…
Published since 1964 by Zambian-born author Wilbur Smith, The Courtney Series chronicles the lives of the Courtney family, from the 1860s through until 1987. The Courtney Series was not written chronologically. The first books follow the twins Sean and Garrick Courtney from the 1860s until 1925. Then, the next ones were about Centaine de Thiry…
Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021) was a Zambian-born British-South African author famous for his best-selling historical novels. This accountant by training became a full-time writer after he gained a film contract with his first published novel. Initially, Wilbur Smith wanted to become a journalist but his father dissuaded him and convinced him to find ‘a real…
Published since 1980 by Zambian-born author Wilbur Smith, The Ballantyne Series chronicles the lives of the Ballantyne family – like the Courtney series does. In fact, the two series are connected. From the 1860s until 1980s, this historical series follows the lives of the members of the Ballantyne family against the background of the history…
The Hornblower series written by English novelist C.S. Forester is about a British naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. The series follows Horatio Hornblower through his career and across the development of the Napoleonic Wars, from a midshipman and lieutenant to an admiral in the British Navy. Hornblower learned to be a leader and to…
Coming from American historical novelist Candace Robb, The Owen Archer series is about a crime-solving ex-soldier in medieval England. The story began in the year of our Lord 1363 and follows one-eyed spy Owen Archer, a disillusioned soldier keen to make a fresh start, as he works for archbishop Thoresby to solve murder mysteries. His…
British author born in the Horsefair district of Birmingham, Anne Bennett is known for writing historical fiction and romance novels. In 1995, Bennett was a teacher when a terrible accident confined her to a wheelchair. She then started to write full-time (in 2006, after sixteen years in a wheelchair, Anne was able to walk again)….
Coming from Seth Hunter (a pseudonym of writer, screenwriter, and director Paul Bryers), the Nathan Peake series of nautical historical fiction is set during the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Nathan Peake is a naval officer in the British Navy with a twist, as he combines the role of a naval officer and secret…
Written by Boris Akunin, Erast Petrovich Fandorin is the Russian Sherlock Holmes, a 19th-century Russian hero in a series of Russian historical detective novels. Orphaned at the age of nineteen, he was left with only debts and had to abandon his education to enter the police force as a clerk. He is an inexperienced detective…
Based on the true story of Constance Kopp from New Jersey, with, one of America’s first female deputy sheriffs, and her sisters, the Kopp Sisters Series is written by Amy Stewart. This is not a series of biographies, but the fictionalized lives of three real-life sisters. There’s thirty-five-year-old Constance and her two younger sisters. First,…
Thomas Chaloner is the central character and narrator in a series of historical mystery crime novels by Susanna Gregory. He grew up in Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, before having to fight for Cromwell’s New Model Army during the civil wars. Afterward, he pursued and finished his studies in Cambridge, and enrolled at Lincoln’s Inn. Then, he…
