Biographical Fiction
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
An intimate portrait of a flamboyantly public marriage, Z imagines Zelda Fitzgerald’s voice in this exhilarating account of a life…
Cornelia: Moeder van de Gracchen
While looking back from her retreat in Misenium, Cornelia narrates the events that changed the nature of the Roman Republic.…
The Manzoni Family
Alessandro Manzoni, the eminent author of I Promisse Sposi (The Betrothed) was a famous poet and novelist whose family is…
Call Me Zelda
Editors' choice
Psychiatric nurse Anna Howard is in awe of her newest patient at Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland. Zelda Fitzgerald,…
Never Fall Down
Editors' choice
In April 1975, the Khmer Rouge march into the Cambodian town of Battambang and eleven-year-old Arn Chorn-Pond’s happy life is…
Black Venus
This novel explores the life of one of France’s most innovative poets, whose contribution to French literature was underappreciated during…
Iscariot
The name Judas has become synonymous with “traitor” as a result of one of the most heinous acts of betrayal…
A Name in Blood
Editors' choice
The mystery of Caravaggio’s last months and death has never been satisfactorily resolved: traditionally, he is said to have died…
Hammett Unwritten
The one word that comes to mind when reading Owen Fitzstephen’s Hammett Unwritten (as discovered and edited by Gordon McAlpine)…
Victoria Rebels
Princess Victoria will be Queen of England sometime in the future. Everything about her life is under constant examination and…
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