My #READINGJOURNEY – Historial Fiction

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.