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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
Legacy by Susan Kay is excellent, about Elizabeth I.
Jack Dawkins by Charlton Daines is a good Victorian era, borrowing the Artful Dodger from Charles Dickens.
I'll have to look across my shelves because I know I have a lot of good ones.
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Continuing on from this,
Pompeii by Robert Harris
For Egypt, Christian Jaqc's Ramses series that starts with Son of the Light
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
London by James Rutherfurd, also several of his other books. I've read Paris, Sarum, Dublin, and Russka. All were good reads.