
I've taken the comments on the last post together with contributions on Twitter and Instagram and listed the books/authors mentioned so that we have any easily viewable list which might guide our future historical fiction reading:
The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett (3 votes)
The House of Niccolo series, Dorothy Dunnett
King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett
The White Company, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Aubrey/Maturin series, Patrick O'Brian (2 votes)
Hild, Nicola Griffiths
The Morland Dynasty series, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Wolf Hall & Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel (4 votes)
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliff (3 votes)
The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliff
The Woolpack, Cynthia Harnett
Stars of Fortune, Cynthia Harnett
Cue for Treason, Geoffrey Trease
Fire over England, AEW Mason
A Traveller in Time, Alison Uttley
The Norman Pretender, Valerie Anand
Heart of Midlothian, Walter Scott
Treasure Island, RL Stevenson
Georgette Heyer
Nicola Upson
Frances Brody
If any more nominations come in I'll add them here.