If you're not really, really into historical fiction but still consider it an option; Yxta Maya Murray's The Conquest and Margaret Drabble's The Red Queen are both excellent.

Re: Margaret Drabble - if anyone remembers Swinging London, London in the early 60's, her first few novels are set in that era; The Garrick Year, A Summer Bird-Cage, Jerusalem the Golden, The Millstone.

If you havent already read Michael Gruber's Tropic of Night, do it now. Best thriller I've read since Silence of the Lambs. The sequel is called Valley of Bones, and a new one is coming out this spring called Night of the Jaguar.