 | The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: £4.35 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England just after WWI, its such a good book it almost moved me to tears in places, I would recommend this and all the author's other books too!!
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England during the reign of Henry VIII, it was an absolutely absorbing read, I finished really quickly and then moved onto Philippa Gregory's other books
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 | The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England/Calais during the 1550's, after reading The Other Boleyn Girl I was really eager to read more from Philippa Gregory and she didn't disappoint
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 | The Fever and the Flame: "At the Sign of the Sugared Plum" , "Petals in the Ashes" by Mary Hooper
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Set in London in the 1665/1666, two really good stories
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 | At the House of the Magician by Mary Hooper
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England during the reign on Elizabeth I, this and its sequel are really enjoyable reads
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 | I am Rembrandt's Daughter by Lynn Cullen
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Set in Amsterdam in the 1660's, it was another moving book
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 | Sovay by Celia Rees
Buy new: £7.47 / Used from: £0.46 Set in England/France in the mid 1790's, one of Celia Ree's best books in my opinion
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 | Pirates! by Celia Rees
Buy used from: £0.01 Set in 1724, quite a long book, but such a good one it doesn't take long to get through
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 | Witch Child by Celia Rees
Buy used from: £0.01 Set in England/America in 1659/1660, a really good book that really captured my imagination , the sequel carries on the brilliant story
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 | Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Buy new: £3.93 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England in the 1520's/1530's, it is about the years of Mary I as Anne Boleyn came into her life, I couldn't put this down
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 | Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Set in England in the 1540's/1550's, a story of Elizabeth I's years between her father's death and her own ascension to the throne, another good book from Carolyn Meyer
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 | The Ruby in the Smoke (Point) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 Set in Victorian London, I found this, like Philip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy an absolutely superb book, and the sequels don't disappoint either
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 | The Alchymist's Cat (Deptford Histories) by Robin Jarvis
Buy used from: £0.01 Set in London in the 1660's, i really enjoyed this book but it can be a little dark and disturbing in places, there's more fantasy in this book than in most of the others on this list
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 | Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.19 Set in Venice in 1592, really easy to read, I got through it quite quickly
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