My all-time favorite author of Historicals is Diana Gabaldon. Her Outlander series has a small continuing cast of characters. She's fun, absorbing, and complex without being difficult reading.
And I've never caught her in an error of historical fact.
One twist; many of her books involve time travel, most often between the Jacobite era of Scottish history and late 20th-C contemporary.
The books tend to be physically large, though; I either get them as books-on-CD from the library or, sometimes, buy a paperback and tear it in half so I can hold up the weight (sigh).
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And I've never caught her in an error of historical fact.
One twist; many of her books involve time travel, most often between the Jacobite era of Scottish history and late 20th-C contemporary.
The books tend to be physically large, though; I either get them as books-on-CD from the library or, sometimes, buy a paperback and tear it in half so I can hold up the weight (sigh).