So, imagine – you think “I’d really like to read some books set in the XXth Century. But who writes them? Why won’t someone help me figure it out – why, god, why?!!”
You need the Speesh Reads
Historical Novel Timeline!
The dates shown are, where I can find them, for when the book’s story starts.
Books are what I term ‘Historical Fiction’ you’re very welcome to disagree.
For books set in the same year, they are in alphabetical order by author. If they are in the same series, they’re in series order. Click on the title to go to my review.
Go direct to the period you’re interested in (if I’ve red a book from that period, that is!):
If you know better, or if you’re an author passing by and you know different to the below, please get in touch.
DAWN OF MAN BCE
Sumeria, Akkadia, etc-ia
3154

Quest For Honour
Sam Barone
FIFTH CENTURY BCE
Greeks, Spartans, Romans, Carthaginians
480

Steven Pressfield
THIRD CENTURY BCE
Hannibal, Rome
216

Enemy Of Rome
Hannibal 1
Ben Kane
219

Fields Of Blood
Hannibal 2
Ben Kane
213

Clouds Of War
Hannibal 3
Ben Kane
FIRST CENTURY BCE
Rome, Romans, the Middle East
53

Ben Kane
48

Ben Kane
FIRST CENTURY CE
Romans
9

Geraint Jones

Ben Kane
14

Ben Kane
15

Ben Kane
26

Robert Fabbri

Robert Fabbri
33

Robert Fabbri
41

Robert Fabbri
45

Robert Fabbri
51

Robert Fabbri
58

Of Rome
Robert Fabbri
59

Douglas Jackson
63

Douglas Jackson

Robert Fabbri
66

Douglas Jackson
68

Douglas Jackson

Henry Venmore Rowland

Robert Fabbri
69

Henry Venmore Rowland

Douglas Jackson
70

Douglas Jackson
72

Douglas Jackson
77

Douglas Jackson
98

Adrian Goldsworthy
SECOND CENTURy
Romans in Britannia, Romans in Germania
166

Adam Lofthouse
181

Anthony Riches
182

Anthony Riches

Anthony Riches

Anthony Riches
183

Anthony Riches
184

Anthony Riches

Anthony Riches
THIRD CENTURY
Greeks and Romans in Greece and Rome. Romans in Asia Minor, rest of Europe and Germania. Romans in trouble in Arabia
210

Paul Waters
235

Harry Sidebottom
238

Harry Sidebottom
255

Harry Sidebottom
256

Harry Sidebottom
260

Harry Sidebottom
262

Harry Sidebottom
263

Harry Sidebottom
264

Harry Sidebottom
270

Nick Brown
272

Nick Brown

Nick Brown
273

Nick Brown

Nick Brown

Nick Brown
FOURTH CENTURY
Romans in Britannia, barbarians, King Arthur
305

Ian Ross
362

John Henry Clay
367

james Wilde
FIFTH CENTURY
Romans, Goths. Anglo-Saxons
430

Steven A. McKay
433

E. S. Moxon
448

John Henry Clay
SIXTH CENTURY
Saxons, Anglos, Beowulf, Engels and English. And Danes
516
517
523

C.R. May

C-R. May

C.R. May
SEVENTH CENTURY
Beowulf, the ‘Dark Ages,’ Angles, Saxons, Celts, Picts
630

Matthew Harffy
633
634
635
642
643
EIGHTH CENTURY
Vikings, Vikings in England, Alfred The Great
‘Early’
785
NINTH CENTURY
Vikings
Late 9th Century

Giles Kristian
TENTH CENTURY
Vikings in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, America, Uhtred, Vikings in England, Europe
910 ?
911 ?
912
914
917 ?
918
937
945
975
979
980
996
ELEVENTH CENTURY
Vikings in England, Europe, 1066, Normans, Hereward, Crusades, trips to China
1016
1019
1035
1045
1053

Stewart Binns
1062
1066
1067
1068
1069
1070
1071
1072
1073
1081
1088
1098
TWELFTH CENTURY
Knights Templar, Robin Hood, Normans, Ireland
1164
1170
1187
1186

Stewart Binns
1189
1190
1192
1194
THIRTEENTH CENTURY
Robin Hood, Knights Templar
1200
1203
1215
1217
FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Knights Templar, Knights in England, France
1307
1321
1322
1323
1324
1356
1368

Mette Holm
FIFTEENTH CENTURY
The Wars of The Roses. Lots of killing. Business as usual
1459
1464
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Shakespeare. No, not that one. Elizabeth
1585
1587
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
English Civil War. Charles II, Buckingham, The Crown Jewels, The Glorious Revolution
1642

Giles Kristian
1643

Giles Kristian
1670
1685
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The Colonies
1779
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Redcoats, Spanish, French spies, India
1807
1809

Iain Gale
1854
1855

Paul Fraser Collard
1857
1859
1895
TWENTIETH CENTURY
First World War, Second World War, Spies. Ireland, Ku Klux Klan, Kennedy
1903
1914
1919
1928
1929
1934
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1947
1948
1949
1950
1953
1954
1956
1963
1964
1965

Tom Rob Smith