Gillian Bradshaw is the very best –

When it comes to historicals, especially impeccably researched historicals with a strong romance subplot.

So pleased to see that Maureen has started reading Bradshaw’s backlist. Yay! Such a pleasure when you get to watch someone discover a favorite author.

My own Bradshaw list:

Fighting it out for top place:

A Beacon at Alexandria

Island of Ghosts

Cleopatra’s Heir

The Sand-Reckoner

Also very good:

Render Unto Caesar

The Bearkeeper’s Daughter

Imperial Purple

The Sun’s Bride

Wolf Hunt

Not as good imo:

Dark North — I’d almost put this in the set above, though

London in Chains

Horses of Heaven

The Arthurian trilogy

The ones I haven’t read:

Her science fiction (I have one on my Kindle, though)

Her children’s books

If you’ve already read a lot of Bradshaw’s list, which ones are on the top for you? And do you think there is a bottom to her list? I have no impulse to re-read the Arthurian trilogy, but then for me Mary Stewart wrote the definitive Arthurian series.