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Diana Gabaldon's wildly popular historical romance series follows the adventures of Claire Randall who stumbles from 1946 into 18th century Scotland when she touches some mysterious standing stones. The series follows Claire and her love Jamie through time and across continents. Part time-travel, part adventure-romance, these books are full of solid historical detail, while also being 'un-put-down-able', and have a loyal following of readers. If you've read the whole series, and want something similar, try some of these recommended reads. A Christchurch City Libraries booklist.

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  • This compelling series of novels is about the Company — a 24th century organization that turns orphans and refugees from the past into cyborgs and sends them back in time to save or hide paintings, cultural treasures, and genetic information useful…
    Book, 1997New York : Harcourt Brace, c1997. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A series of novels revolving around the mythical isle of Avalon, weaving in and out of Arthurian legend and retelling the tales from the female perspective. Strong characters and lots of believable historical detail make this a great follow-on from…
    Book, 1982New York : Knopf, 1982. — HISTORICAL
  • Elizabeth Bonner leaves England in 1792 to join her father and brother in a mountainous village in upstate New York, where she falls in love with a man torn between white and Native American culture. First in a series.
    Book, 1998Moorebank, N.S.W. : Bantam Books, 1998. — HISTORICAL
  • Adam is only 14 when he is placed in the harsh hands of his father. Then he meets Brid, a girl his own age, soon strange things occur. Sometimes he finds himself going back through the gateway in time to Brid's home in the 6th century.
    Book, 1998London : HarperCollins, 1998. — SAGA
  • When Julia moves to a small Wiltshire village, she finds herself transported back in time as Mariana, who lived there during the great plague of 1665. She experiences, as Mariana, all the terrors of that grim time, as well as falling in love with…
    Large Print, 2010Long Preston : Magna, 2010, c1994. — LP FICTION
  • A young academic couple's attempt to trace the relationship between two turbulent, romantic, and superstitious Victorian poets reveals uncanny parallels with their own lives and culminates in the exhumation of a poet's corpse.
    Book, 1990London : Chatto & Windus, 1990. — FICTION
  • Kivrin Engle, a young historian specializing in medieval history, persuades her reluctant instructor to send her from 2048 to Oxford in 1320, as part of a time-travelling historians' project.
    Book, 1994Bantam, 1994.
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog

    Or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

    Willis, Connie, 1945-
    In our near future, a wealthy American neo-aristocrat with a will of iron has dragooned most of Oxford's time-travelling history department to help her rebuild Coventry Cathedral exactly as it was before it was destroyed in the Nazi Blitz. Ned and…
    Book, 1998New York : Bantam Books, 1998 c1997. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • Henry and Clare have been in love for a long time, though theirs is not the typical love story. Henry suffers from Chrono-Displacement, a genetic disorder that picks him up and flings him into other times of his life--therefore, though Clare is just…
    Book, 2005London : Vintage, 2005. — FICTION
  • Acting as a guinea-pig for an experimental time-travel drug, Dick Young finds himself transported to early 14th century Cornwall. Despite warnings, he becomes drawn into the lives of the people he sees there, particularly Lady Isolda Carminowe, and…
    Book, 1969London : Gollancz, 1969. — HISTORICAL
  • Set in both contemporary and medieval Carcassonne, this is a beautifully written and highly researched historical mystery adventure involving the Holy Grail, and told from the perspective of Alais in 1209 and Alice in 2005.
    Book, 2005London : Orion, 2005. — FICTION
  • Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C., to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. No time…
    Book, 2010New York : Viking, 2010. — HISTORICAL