I've missed number one A column of fire, Ken follet, which has just been published and is already at the top of the list. It seems that the millions of followers of the Welsh writer were eagerly awaiting him. But there are more titles that are in the first positions of the most commented right now in historical novel. I have kept these 8 books, ranging from novelties to classics.

The lords of the north - Bernard Cornwell

Third book in the saga of Saxons, Vikings and Normans de Bernard Cornwell, the prestigious English writer, creator of the rifleman Richard Sharpe and master of the genre. Set in the viking invasions of Great Britain during the reign of Alfred the Great, this series title was published in 2008.

The protagonist is Uhtred Ragnarson, sometimes known as Uhtred Uhtredson. Born in Northumbria, he is captured and adopted by the Danes. They educate him as one of their own. In this novel Uhtred go back north after helping Alfred to turn Wessex into an independent Saxon kingdom. He wants to find his stepsister, but on the way you will run into a land in trouble and at war.

Precisely this saga also has a recent adaptation as a television series from your first title, The last kingdom.

moon, S Palace - Weina Dai Randel

Was the first novel of this Chinese writer. We are in the year 631 and the protagonist, Mei, who lives with his family quietly, but due to circumstances, will become part of the harem of concubines of the imperial palace. You will have no choice but to try get the emperor's attention. And she will do it the only way she knows how: with the qualities that have made her an outcast among the rest of the concubines.

The wolf's smile - Tim Leach

Still in pre-order because it is not published until October 26. Leach graduated from the University of Warwick, where he lives and teaches creative writing.

Another story with Vikings with a protagonist, the poet Landless Kirián. He and his friend Gunnar, an ancient Viking warrior settled in Iceland, went out to kill the ghost that harassed a neighboring farm. But it was a hoax and they killed a man. That crime, in the XNUMXth century Iceland , without kings or chiefs, it could only be purged with silver or blood. Or facing a adversary with wolf smile.

The Knight of the White Boar - José Javier Esparza

The journalist and writer, author of more than 20 historical novels, published this novel in 2012. Tells the story of Zone, which in the last years of XNUMXth century of our era, he crosses the Cantabrian mountains with his family in search of a better land. But they know that they may encounter the looting of the Muslims or end up as slaves in the great market of Córdoba. Your avatars will be precursors of the Reconquista.

The spartan - Javier Negrete

This graduate in Classical Philology cultivates mainly the genres of fantasy and science fiction. But he has also written a novel erotica successfully.

Also in pre-sale until the end of this month, with this novel we go to the year 480 B.C. c. The king Leonidas, before dying in the battle of Thermopylae, deliver a letter to the officer perseus and orders him to return to Sparta and give it to his wife, Gorgo. But in reality Perseus is the son of King Damarato, who, victim of palace conspiracies, lost the right to the throne and must learn to survive as a simple warrior.

The saga of the old ones - Eva García Sáenz de Urturi

En 2012 this novel was published which was one of the great sales and critical phenomena. The history and relationship of long-lived Iago del Castillo, with 10.300 years, and Adriana, the young and determined prehistorian who returns to her native Santander, hired by the museum where he works, is still in vogue.

Captain of sea and war - Patrick O'Brian

A classic of classics. First title in the series of 21 novels written by the British master of the naval adventure genre. Starring the captain Jack Aubrey and the naturalist and spy stephen maturin, they still are indispensable for those who pride themselves on being lovers of the historical novel.

In this first novel we are in Mahon, in April 1800, in full napoleonic wars between Great Britain and France. There, during a concert, Dr. Stephen Maturin meets then-Lieutenant Jack Aubrey. Of characters as different as they are opposite, the friendship they will develop will be forever.

I will save your life - Joaquín Leguina and Rubén Buren

On July 5 this novel won the Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Award in its sixteenth edition. Written in tandem by Leguina and Buren, it tells the life of Melchor Rodriguez, an anarchist also known as «The red angel', Which saved many lives during the Civil War and that he is Buren's great-grandfather.