The 10 best historical novels to read this fall: from Santiago Posteguillo to Ken Follett

The literary income It has been filled with big names who practice historical novels. Some are true bestsellers, both in our country and internationally, as is the case of Santiago Posteguillo either Ken Follett. Others, like Carmen Molathey delve into the genre for the first time, keeping their driving style intact through the thriller, something that we also find in Susana Martín Gijón and one of the surprises of the season, Babylon 1580.

We also highlight purer books within the discipline, such as the new Santiago Díaz Morlánat the same time that Pilar Eyre and Marga Durá, they contribute their different perspectives from their feminine sensitivity. Furthermore, a safe value like Santiago Roncagliolo dazzles with a novel full of monsters.

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The second part of the Julius Caesar Series after Rome is me, which became a sales phenomenon in 2022, reaching more than 30,000 copies. Now, the author returns to this large-scale literary project when it comes to narrating the life of Julius Caesar and all the intrigues that arose around him.

On this occasion, the historical figure goes through one of his worst moments after being forced into exile. While he travels to Rhodes to learn oratory so he can finally face Cicero, he will be kidnapped by some pirates and he himself will have to negotiate his ransom to free himself and continue on his way. Furthermore, we will experience their confrontation Spartacus in the slave rebellion, which will lead to an epic battle.

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More of 800 pages of betrayals, adventures, ambition, honor and love, where we will also witness the emergence of the character of Cleopatra.

The action begins with the uprising of the army against the Queen isabel II that will stain the streets of Madrid with blood. In this context of horror and death, two characters, a dancer named Leonor and a medical student, Mauro, will find themselves involved in a murder. To escape justice they will separate and Leonor will flee to Havanawhere he will meet a cruel cotton plantation landowner who exercises control slavery. Among them will be Mauro and both will discover that in one place or another, they are, in some way, condemned.

The trio formed by Jorge Diaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercerowho achieved popularity thanks to the trilogy of The gypsy bride (now Atresmedia Player premieres the second season) and reached the Planet Award with The beasttake another step in their consolidation with this historical thriller in which adventure and cruelty beat.

The mythical Ken Follettwith an enormous career behind him, wrote in the early nineties The pillars of the earth who became an icon of popular culture almost immediately. Little by little he has been completing this saga with A world without end, The column of fire, The darkness of dawn and now it’s the turn of the fifth part, The armor of light.

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The story is set in 1792. While Napoleon begins his gradual rise to power in France, in England The government wants to turn the nation into the maximum commercial power of the world. The innovations coming from the industrial Revolution They are creating a paradigm shift that ordinary society has to assimilate. In this context, a group of workers will become a symbol of workers struggle against exploitation and oppression.

The journalist and writer, author of works such as I, the king either When we were yesterdaycomposes a historical and romantic fresco at the end of the Civil war in Spain. The protagonist is a young man who loses his parents in a bombing, gets married and has a son. But he will have to flee to France, where he will meet a girl who is active in the Communist Party with whom he will begin a relationship. There he will remain in exile, while his wife in Barcelona begins a successful career as a lawyer.

With the usual elegance of Pilar Eyre’s prose, we enter this turbulent period of our history in which political ideology became a burden and will irremediably influence the lives of the characters.

In this case we approach Annual disaster and the Spanish military defeat in the Second Moroccan Warwhere more than 21,000 people perished and which took place during the monarchy of Alfonso XIII, in 1921.

The protagonists of this story are three men who, for different reasons, will see how their lives are conditioned by the disaster of war. A humble soldier, a misplaced soldier and a dreaming officer. Santiago Díaz Morláncontinues to explore our history to demonstrate that by exploring the past we can understand our present.

Between 1947 and 1984 the radio station remained on the radio. Elena Francis’ officea space aimed at the female audience in which listeners’ doubts were answered through consultations.

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Now, the author of The miracle of breadcrumbs, approaches that program through Berta, a 21-year-old Catholic orphan attending a Eucharistic congress. At the same time, she is a fervent admirer of Elena Francis and wants to meet him to ask for advice and enter that world.

It is set in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1623, when on a black night, a novice gave birth to one creature Creepy with two heads, forked tongue and eight limbs. An incarnation of the devil? This fact will coincide with the arrival of a woman who claims to have the ability to speak with God and with him Devil. A fake, a witch or a saint? A rookie sheriff of the Holy Office will be in charge of investigating these events.

The journalist and writer Santiago Roncagliolo, author of books such as Modesty either red aprilwinner of the Alfaguara Awarddelves into a dark time, full of superstitions, to compose a magnetic novel inspired by real events.

One of the novels of the year, which mixes intrigue and history in equal parts. A thriller exquisite that takes place in the Seville of 1580when the city experiences its maximum moment of splendor thanks to the trade with the The new World. In this context, a woman who has practiced prostitution in the brothel most famous in the area and a cloistered nun They will come together to find out what happened to one of their former friends, discovered murdered on the deck of Her Majesty’s ship.

Also an interpreter, Carlos Bardem continues his literary career with this novel as a moral fable in which an animal will be in charge of taking the floor to denounce the evils of human beings, greed, religious fanaticism and how it is capable of destroying nature.

It is set in 1583, when a Spanish galleon arrives at the island of Pawu. A badaq, or indonesian rhinoceros, you will witness the atrocities that will be committed between colonizers and indigenous people. a novel of adventure with a historical background that speaks of the abuses of empires, the Inquisition and human decadence.

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The legendary author of Kronen Stories turns to historical novel. If in his debut he was in charge of x-raying the Madrid of the nineties, on this occasion he takes his gaze back to the time of the Reconquista, closing a trilogy that began with Fernán González!: The man who forged Castilla and Pelayo!

Berenguela the Great was queen of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIII and mother of Ferdinand III. But she was also the woman who got Castile and León joined and that he had an active management within the country’s politics. The writer tries put into value this figure whose importance has been relegated in favor of that of her husband and her son.