Five centuries of England, told through the people who shaped it. This list runs from the turn of the last millennium, where Ken Follett's The Evening and the Morning builds Kingsbridge out of a lawless, Viking-haunted Anglo-Saxon world, through the plague years and soaring ambition of the 14th century in World Without End, and on to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy and the sharp, dangerous heart of Henry VIII's court, seen through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell. Cathedrals and coronations, the Black Death and betrayal, ordinary lives caught up in the making of a nation. Epic historical fiction for readers who like their past vivid, human, and hard to put down.
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