Wolf Hall's success continues to keep the journalists busy. Here is an article celebrating the best in historical fiction, giving recommendations from Mary Renault's The King must Die (set in Ancient Greece) through to Patrick O'Brien's Hornblower novels (set during the Napoleonic wars). There are also plenty of readers' recommendations in the comments section.
PS: Here is a video of Hilary Mantel explaining how she came to write about Thomas Cromwell
PPS (20 October): Here is more from Hilary Mantel about writing historical fiction
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