 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 What can I say? Pure Genius
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 | Katherine by Anya Seton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.57 A great romance - but much more than classic chick-lit- pretty accurate historically
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 | The House of Sight and Shadow by Nicholas Griffin
Buy used from: £0.01 Picked it up randomly but got swept into this murky world immediately - very evocative and gripping
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 | I, Claudius & Claudius the God by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £5.99 Incredible scope and detail - although beware the fact that he's based it on the Silver Age latin historian, Suetonius, who is more like the Daily Mirror of ancient history
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.88 Gripping, sinister, vast and for all its erudition, hugely readable
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 | The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Pears does it again - though not quite as accessibly perhaps. Enjoyable nonetheless
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 | To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
Buy used from: £0.01 Straddling two centuries from the Court of Catherine the Great and the recent past - it is truly ingenious
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.93 A classic and even better than a good film (which book isn't?) - so well-researched that it appears on mediaeval history reading lists, so enthralling that it appears on bestseller lists.
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 | Abyssinian Chronicles (PB) by Moses Isegawa
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.85 astonishing narrative history of Uganda from Independence to mid 90s - has it all from a very personal and semi- autobigrapical perspective
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 | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.01 OK - not strictly a historical novel as such, but profound account of modern Germany trying to come to terms with its past as seen through two characters
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 | The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Spanning decades from Burma to Malaysia - fantastic
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 | Tai-Pan: Second novel of the Asian Saga by James Clavell
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £2.50 Part of the Asian saga - this and Noble House are great reads - evocative and breathlessly action-packed
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 | The Portrait by Iain Pears
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 OK, yes another Iain Pears - the man's still a real genius. A dark tale about revenge , relationships and painting - unnervingly narrated as one side of a conversation between artist and sitter
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 | The Princess of Mantua (New Fiction) by Marie Ferranti
Buy used from: £2.76 Well, I enjoyed it (despite what the site reviewer said)
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 | Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age) by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.00 evocative, well-researched and very readable
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 | Washington D.C. (Narratives of a Golden Age) by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 another in the series - 20th century this time but goes behind the scenes of Macarthyism, corruption and everything else
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 | Dissolution (Shardlake) by C.J. Sansom
Buy used from: £0.01 superb book that has it all - murder, dodgy monks, Tudor politics and Henry VIII whims - does what historical novels SHOULD do
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 | Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
Buy used from: £0.01 Sansom does it again - this time in post-civil war Spain, under Franco and a blanket of snow - informative, intriguiging and provocative
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