Any good historical fiction featuring Napoleon?
I’m sorry I’m late in replying and that I’ve been absent :( Been a busy week and I took a break for my birthday :)
There are quite a few historical fiction books out there with Napoleon. A lot of them are romances, many with Josephine. Here are a few though:
Desiree by Annemarie Selinko
My Brother Napoleon by F.W. Kenyon (Caroline Murat POV)
The Emperor’s Lady by F.W. Kenyon (Josephine)
The Last Love by Thomas Constain (Betsy Balcombe and St. Helena)
The Thunderer; A Romance of Napoleon and Josephine by E Barrington
Josephine The Great Lover by Pierre Nezelof
The Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland
The Second Empress, A Novel of Napoleon’s Court by Michelle Moran
Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb
Two Empresses by Brandy Purdy
Destiny; A Novel of Napoleon and Josephine by Betram Fields
Napoleon Series by Max Gallo (books loosely used for the A&E series)
1. The Song of Departure
2. The Sun of Austerlitz
3. The Emperor of Kings
4. The Immortal Man of St. Helena
Napoleon’s Last Island; A Novel by Thomas Keneally
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (movie The Emperor’s New Clothes based on
The Princess of Nowhere, A novel by Lorenzo Borghese (Pauline Bonaparte POV)
Honorable Mention: Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by Brian Faulkner
Honorable Mention: Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon tries his hand at being an author, supposedly based on his own love affair with Desiree Clary)
There’s a few to start :)