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Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction

The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is given to themes of: engaging politics, sprawling battles, drugs(errr .. mead) and debauchery. If authors like Robyn Young, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield resonate with you, this group is designed for you. If you are bursting in your seams to discuss their books, please do come in.
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+ general
Beginner book recommendations
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The A&M Group Facebook Page and Blog
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The A&M Group LISTOPIA Recommended Reading List
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+ Rules & Guidelines
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+ General Discussions
* The 10 'MUST READ' Books of the Historical Fiction Genre
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 238 posts · 2966 views
last updated Apr 18, 2023 04:42PM
* MEET & GREET
By Ireney · 3601 posts · 1463 views
last updated Dec 19, 2025 02:07PM
* What Are You Reading Right Now? ( Hwæt béon ðu bocrædung?)
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last updated Aug 26, 2025 05:54AM
* New & Upcoming Releases
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last updated Sep 03, 2024 02:55AM
A destiny she refuses to surrender
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last updated Nov 23, 2025 05:47AM
Looking for books to complete collection on British monarchy/history
By Bruce · 6 posts · 26 views
last updated Sep 06, 2025 05:46PM
Random Thoughts
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 17693 posts · 1657 views
last updated Aug 28, 2025 04:13PM
Ancient Greek HF
By Scott · 23 posts · 87 views
last updated Aug 19, 2025 07:42AM
Historical Mystery
By Dawn · 1168 posts · 983 views
last updated Nov 11, 2024 04:22AM
SEEKING REVIEWS FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
By Oktay · 1 post · 27 views
last updated Sep 10, 2024 12:11PM
Potential Buddy Reads
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last updated Feb 05, 2024 11:44AM
Books x music
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Books x music
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Books x music
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+ Authors
Lise Bréval (medieval historical fiction author)
By Lise · 4 posts · 23 views
last updated Oct 26, 2025 09:50AM
Robert Low
By Dawn · 716 posts · 460 views
last updated Aug 23, 2021 05:25PM
Ben Kane
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 330 posts · 420 views
last updated Aug 11, 2021 10:36AM
Conn Iggulden
By Ireney · 373 posts · 581 views
last updated May 07, 2021 04:20AM
Bernard Cornwell
By Lee · 2243 posts · 1265 views
last updated Apr 22, 2021 05:13AM
Robyn Young
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 27 posts · 72 views
last updated Oct 20, 2018 07:29PM
Tim Severin
By Justin · 62 posts · 233 views
last updated Jul 23, 2018 04:36PM
C.S. Forester & Patrick O'Brian
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 187 posts · 383 views
last updated Mar 08, 2018 01:59PM
Steven Pressfield
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 113 posts · 319 views
last updated Jun 11, 2015 09:35AM
Michael Curtis Ford
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 44 posts · 204 views
last updated Nov 09, 2014 09:23PM
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+ Prehistory (< 3400BC)
* Prehistory (<3400BC)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 173 posts · 686 views
last updated Jun 16, 2024 05:02AM
First North Americans Series
By Silver · 133 posts · 398 views
last updated Feb 17, 2016 02:07PM
Clan of the Cave Bear Books
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 119 posts · 449 views
last updated Nov 25, 2014 02:42PM
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+ Bronze & Iron Ages (3400-800BC)
* Bronze & Iron Ages (3400-800BC)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 231 posts · 1103 views
last updated Oct 01, 2025 06:42AM
Ancient Egypt
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 480 posts · 738 views
last updated Dec 16, 2021 03:36PM
Troy /Anatolia/Turkey
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 114 posts · 453 views
last updated Jul 06, 2016 02:36PM
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+ Classical Antiquity (800-476AD)
* Classical Antiquity (800BC-476AD)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 273 posts · 704 views
last updated Aug 21, 2025 06:46AM
Sara's Secrets
By Bernard · 2 posts · 10 views
last updated Dec 20, 2025 02:43PM
Early Western European Christianity
By Bernard · 1 post · 12 views
last updated Dec 02, 2025 11:49AM
Roman Empire to 476AD
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 1536 posts · 1124 views
last updated Sep 04, 2025 04:03AM
Greco-Persian Wars
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 65 posts · 448 views
last updated Aug 05, 2024 07:50AM
The Punic Wars: (264 - 46 B.C)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 160 posts · 534 views
last updated May 24, 2024 03:08PM
Fall of Assyria - Rise of Persia
By Dana · 2 posts · 19 views
last updated May 02, 2024 11:58PM
Free Kindle - Historical Mystery about Jerusalem
By Allan · 1 post · 34 views
last updated Nov 26, 2022 03:40PM
Britain (800 - 476AD)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 111 posts · 367 views
last updated Mar 03, 2022 09:02PM
Sparta (650-146BC)
By Dawn · 107 posts · 483 views
last updated Nov 24, 2021 07:06PM
Alexander the Great
By Ireney · 134 posts · 998 views
last updated May 25, 2019 02:23PM
Barbarian Invasions (200-476AD)
By Dawn · 54 posts · 359 views
last updated Sep 15, 2016 12:33PM
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+ Early Middle Ages (476–1000)
* Early Middle Ages (476-1000)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 133 posts · 717 views
last updated Feb 09, 2025 03:13AM
The Vikings
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 1161 posts · 1092 views
last updated Jun 26, 2025 12:35PM
Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 162 posts · 639 views
last updated Sep 08, 2024 06:16AM
Britain (476 - 1000)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 43 posts · 425 views
last updated Sep 04, 2024 03:55AM
The Saxons
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 328 posts · 781 views
last updated Jan 02, 2024 07:29PM
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+ High Middle Ages (1000–1300)
* High Middle Ages (1000-1300)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 224 posts · 785 views
last updated Dec 11, 2025 06:30AM
The Crusades & The Templars
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 353 posts · 754 views
last updated Dec 18, 2025 02:53AM
Trying to get into Goodreads!
By Marcus · 1 post · 11 views
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1066
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 112 posts · 561 views
last updated Nov 12, 2025 01:01AM
Asia (eg. the Mongols)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 213 posts · 551 views
last updated Sep 08, 2024 06:20AM
The Normans
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 310 posts · 603 views
last updated Oct 18, 2021 06:28PM
Angevins & House of Plantagenet
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 81 posts · 350 views
last updated Dec 27, 2019 06:42PM
Men of Iron (Knights)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 53 posts · 313 views
last updated May 26, 2018 06:47PM
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+ Late Middle Ages (1300–1500)
* Late Middle Ages (1300-1500)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 329 posts · 769 views
last updated Nov 25, 2024 07:10PM
Beta Readers
By Lise · 1 post · 15 views
last updated Sep 23, 2025 12:06PM
Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1300-1500)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 29 posts · 182 views
last updated Sep 08, 2024 06:25AM
Knights Hospitaller (Knights of St John)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 93 posts · 386 views
last updated Sep 08, 2024 06:23AM
Teutonic Knights
By Ireney · 9 posts · 246 views
last updated May 02, 2024 03:42AM
Wars of Scottish Independence
By Ireney · 130 posts · 480 views
last updated Apr 11, 2024 04:52AM
100 Years' War (1337-1453)
By Ireney · 297 posts · 567 views
last updated Feb 22, 2024 07:43AM
Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 379 posts · 502 views
last updated Oct 21, 2021 01:54PM
The House of Borgia (The Borgias)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 172 posts · 389 views
last updated Apr 23, 2017 07:56PM
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia
By Dawn · 22 posts · 184 views
last updated Jul 16, 2013 03:44PM
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+ Early Modern Period (1500-1800)
* Early Modern Period (1500-1800)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 81 posts · 418 views
last updated Apr 24, 2020 10:29PM
Pre-Columbian Americas & Spanish Conquest
By Ireney · 65 posts · 367 views
last updated Mar 31, 2025 06:54PM
English Civil War (1642 - 1651)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 130 posts · 272 views
last updated Feb 21, 2025 09:30AM
Asia (1500 - 1800)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 50 posts · 306 views
last updated Jan 02, 2025 02:08AM
Tudor England
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 218 posts · 510 views
last updated Sep 04, 2024 07:11AM
French Revolution: 1789 - 1799/Napoleonic Wars/Napoleon (to 1821)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 230 posts · 340 views
last updated Feb 23, 2024 03:32AM
Europe (1500-1800)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 172 posts · 422 views
last updated Oct 09, 2023 03:19AM
House of Medici
By Dawn · 115 posts · 839 views
last updated Sep 27, 2020 08:39AM
American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 32 posts · 217 views
last updated Aug 05, 2020 04:58PM
Pacific Countries ( - 1800)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 27 posts · 124 views
last updated Jun 07, 2020 05:40PM
Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 172 posts · 524 views
last updated Jun 07, 2020 05:37PM
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
By Dawn · 16 posts · 216 views
last updated Jul 19, 2016 08:01PM
Spanish Succession: Early 1700's
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 12 posts · 109 views
last updated Aug 02, 2013 10:34PM
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+ The Modern Age (1800 - )
* Modern Age (1800 - )
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 76 posts · 288 views
last updated Jul 09, 2020 07:06PM
Interwar & World War II (1918 - 1945)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 245 posts · 320 views
last updated May 01, 2022 07:03AM
The Victorian Era (1837 - 1901)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 141 posts · 350 views
last updated Apr 07, 2022 05:21PM
Georgian & Regency (1714 - 1830)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 72 posts · 236 views
last updated Jan 03, 2021 01:56PM
America - The Wild West & The Frontiers
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 113 posts · 253 views
last updated Jun 08, 2020 06:49PM
Sherlock Holmes
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 394 posts · 325 views
last updated Jun 08, 2020 04:30PM
The Edwardian Era & World War I (1901 - 1918)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 149 posts · 256 views
last updated Apr 23, 2020 03:32PM
Australia and the Pacific
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 34 posts · 45 views
last updated Feb 09, 2020 06:48PM
Russia and the Romanovs
By Dawn · 68 posts · 189 views
last updated Jun 04, 2019 06:39PM
American Revolution & Civil War (1861 - 1865)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 161 posts · 261 views
last updated Nov 06, 2017 09:20PM
Crimean War (1853 - 1856)
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 25 posts · 117 views
last updated Jan 06, 2014 08:19PM
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+ Monthly Group Reads
* Reading the Poll Losers Instead?
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 872 posts · 600 views
last updated Nov 04, 2018 03:49PM
* Monthly Group Reads Polls and Voting
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 1359 posts · 828 views
last updated May 26, 2019 05:10PM
* General Guidelines
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 8 posts · 155 views
last updated May 05, 2012 06:47PM
JULY 2018: THE POISON BED by E.C. Fremantle
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 20 posts · 102 views
last updated May 21, 2019 09:09AM
FEBRUARY 2019: INSURRECTION by Robyn Young
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 41 posts · 117 views
last updated Apr 30, 2019 06:52PM
SEPTEMBER 2018: FALCON OF SPARTA by Conn Iggulden
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 30 posts · 108 views
last updated Apr 01, 2019 08:24AM
MARCH & APRIL GROUP READ: Killer of Men by CHRISTIAN CAMERON
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 2 posts · 41 views
last updated Mar 31, 2019 12:09PM
DECEMBER 2018: ISLAND OF GHOSTS by Gillian Bradshaw
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 18 posts · 56 views
last updated Dec 19, 2018 06:25PM
NOVEMBER 2018: LOST QUEEN by Signe Pike
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 32 posts · 126 views
last updated Dec 17, 2018 05:56PM
MAY 2018: THE ABBOT'S TALE/DUNSTAN by Conn Iggulden
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 88 posts · 176 views
last updated Sep 18, 2018 10:43PM
AUGUST 2018: ROSS POLDARK by Winston Graham
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 70 posts · 75 views
last updated Sep 13, 2018 01:15PM
JUNE 2018: BLOOD FOREST by Geraint Jones
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 83 posts · 78 views
last updated Jul 17, 2018 06:27PM
MARCH 2018: THE ILL-MADE KNIGHT by Christian Cameron
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 48 posts · 122 views
last updated May 22, 2018 06:04AM
APRIL 2018: CATHAR by Christopher Bland
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 47 posts · 81 views
last updated May 21, 2018 10:36PM
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+ Learning Some History Stuff
* Do You Know Of Any Good Free History Courses?
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 58 posts · 284 views
last updated Sep 18, 2023 10:45AM
History of religion
By Nicole · 8 posts · 41 views
last updated Sep 18, 2023 10:42AM
Did Aud the Deep-Minded gain women the right to speak at the Thing in Iceland?
By Gwendoline · 5 posts · 28 views
last updated Jan 16, 2020 06:42PM
landscape studies. a free course.
By Mark · 1 post · 27 views
last updated May 26, 2017 11:39PM
Plagues, Witches and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction (University of Virginia) - self paced course
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 22 posts · 136 views
last updated Apr 13, 2016 07:02PM
Hadrian's Wall (Newcastle University - online) JUNE 2015
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 140 posts · 149 views
last updated Jun 17, 2015 07:16AM
England in the Time of King Richard III (University of Leicester - online) FEBRUARY 16 2015
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 206 posts · 151 views
last updated Mar 15, 2015 03:23AM
Archaeology of Portus: Exploring the Lost Harbour of Ancient Rome (University of Southhampton) January 26, 2015
By Terri , Wyrd bið ful aræd · 37 posts · 70 views
last updated Feb 10, 2015 06:52AM
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Insurrection
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Island of Ghosts
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The Lost Queen
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Blood Forest
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The Mauritius Command
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