If you loved
Books like Sarum
A sweeping, monumental journey through millennia that anchors the vast tides of history to a single, enduring patch of earth. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Sarum.
- immersive
- timeless
- monumental
- atmospheric
- 01
Stonehenge
Bernard Cornwell · 1999
A gritty, sweeping epic of blood, ambition, and the primal drive to leave a permanent mark on an unforgiving world.
- 02
Jerusalem
Alan Moore
A sprawling, hallucinatory descent into the gutters and cosmic attics of a single English town where all of time is happening at once.
- 03
L' alliance
James A. Michener · 1986
A monumental, sweeping journey through centuries of history that anchors the complex, tragic tapestry of a nation in the bloodlines of its people.
- 04
Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett
A sweeping, mud-spattered epic of ambition and survival that plunges you into the brutal dawn of the Middle Ages.
- 05
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks · 2001
A haunting, beautifully rendered portrait of a community pushed to the brink and a woman forging her own salvation in the crucible of a plague.
- 06
Agincourt
Bernard Cornwell · 2009
A visceral, mud-splattered plunge into the deafening chaos and desperate brotherhood of medieval warfare.
- 07
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantium Mosaic)
Guy Gavriel Kay · 2002
A lush, slow-burn journey into the heart of an empire where the creation of art is as dangerous and immortal as the machinations of emperors.
- 08
The Source
James A. Michener · 1900
A monumental, time-traveling excavation of human faith and civilization layered within a single patch of ancient earth.
- 09
A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
Julian Barnes
An unsettling yet exhilarating literary journey that sweeps from the ancient floods to the gates of heaven.
- 10
Penmarric
Susan Howatch
A sweeping, stormy saga of a deeply dysfunctional family tearing itself apart over a grand estate on the windswept cliffs of Cornwall.
- 11
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
A sweeping, devastating journey from the intoxicating heights of forbidden passion to the claustrophobic, muddy horrors of the Western Front.
- 12
Imperium
Robert Harris
A sharp, backroom view of ancient politics that feels as urgent and cutthroat as a modern thriller.
