Ten of the best historical novels ever

One title on the Telegraph's list of the ten best historical novels: The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald Set in Germany at the end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower tells the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, who becomes the great romantic poet and philosopher ‘Novalis’ and falls in love with twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. Several real-life characters, including Goethe