My #readingjourney continues in the countdown to World Book Night. Today I'm thinking about some of my favourite historical fictions.
Set in Victorian England Fingersmith is that rare thing, a novel that is both literary and a page-turner with an astonishing twist.
Music and Silence is a formally complex novel with music as its thread, and is beautifully rendered.
More a mix of fiction and memoir than a true historical novel, Austerlitz meditates on time and loss in exploring a past in which a five-year-old is sent to England on a Kindertransport.
Pure, set in Paris in 1785, tells of the demolition of a vast and ancient graveyard and is so vividly evocative of its period it leaps from the page.
Set in Victorian England Fingersmith is that rare thing, a novel that is both literary and a page-turner with an astonishing twist.
Music and Silence is a formally complex novel with music as its thread, and is beautifully rendered.
More a mix of fiction and memoir than a true historical novel, Austerlitz meditates on time and loss in exploring a past in which a five-year-old is sent to England on a Kindertransport.
Pure, set in Paris in 1785, tells of the demolition of a vast and ancient graveyard and is so vividly evocative of its period it leaps from the page.
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