Popular European Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (413)
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Orlando : A Biography by Virginia Woolf EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.
Portugal223.
Palmeras en la Nieve by Luz Gabás ES
SpainDescription:
Es 1953 y Kilian abandona la nieve de la montaña oscense para iniciar junto a su hermano, Jacobo, el viaje de ida hacia una tierra desconocida, lejana y exótica, la isla de Fernando Poo. En las entrañas de este territorio exuberante y seductor, le espera su padre, un veterano de la finca Sampaka, el lugar donde se cultiva y tuesta uno de los mejores cacaos del mundo. En esa tierra eternamente verde, cálida y voluptuosa, los jóvenes hermanos descubren la ligereza de la vida social de la colonia en comparación con una España encorsetada y gris; comparten el duro trabajo necesario para conseguir ... continue
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Papel con marca de agua by Goran Petrović ES
SerbiaDescription:
A finales del siglo XIV, la excéntrica e impredecible Giovanna II, reina de Nápoles, quiere escribir a su amante una carta de amor que le resulte irresistible. Para ello recluta a los diez poetas más célebres del reino, a cien soldados y a una comitiva de sirvientes, y emprende una expedición a Amalfi, donde la Congrega dei Cartari produce el papel más selecto de Europa. No obstante, dicha congregación también es famosa por el estricto proceso de selección de sus clientes, al considerar que su papel está destinado a acoger l... continue
France226.
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay EN
AustraliaDescription:
St. Valentine's day 1900 and a party of schoolgirls go for a picnic at Hanging Rock, some never return.; This title is also available as a film.
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Pobeda 1946 : A Car Called Victory by Ilmar Taska EN
EstoniaDescription:
Ilmar Taska's debut novel captures the distrust and fear among Estonians living under Soviet occupation after World War II. The reader is transported to a world seen through the eyes of a young boy, where it is difficult to know who is right and who is wrong, be they occupiers or occupied.
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Ukraine
North Macedonia230.
Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cri... continue