Due to some issues with LUE (Life, the Universe and Everything), I have recently escaped into the worlds of literary historical fantasy and been working my way through : anything and everything by NZ writer, JULIET MARILLIER (IMHO, she writes great characters and stories and many are set in ancient Ireland and Scotland). However, other favourites where I have devoured most everything they have written are : CHARLES DE LINT, Canadian fantasy writer (esp love his Urban settings); JOANNE HARRIS, English-French writer (she of Chocolat fame); DIANA GABALDON, American writer (she of Outlander fame); KATHLEEN O'NEAL GEAR & W. MICHAEL GEAR, American writers (particularly like their 1st Americans prehistory novels); SHARON KAY PENMAN, American writer (loved her Welsh mediaeval history series); PHIL RICKMAN, English supernatural/mystery writer (he of the Merrily Watkins fame, set in the English-Welsh Border); STEPHEN BOOTH, English mystery writer (he of the Cooper & Fry Peak District detective novels. A few years back, due to being caught up in (the younger!) Sean Bean's SHARPE DVDs, I also read and enjoyed the entire Sharpe series (mostly Napoleonic era) written by English writer, Bernard Cornwell! Yeah, that's enough for now! R-J (Down Under)
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