Biographical Fiction
The Queen’s Devotion
The Queen’s Devotion, a novel in Plaidy’s Queens of England series, is a reprint of the previously published William’s Wife,…
In Zodiac Light
This novel is bound to invite comparison with Pat Barker’s Regeneration: set in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, its ostensible…
To Hold The Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
This novel, a reissue of Uneasy Lies the Head, published in 1982, tells the story of the reign of Henry…
To Catch The Lightning
While Edward S. Curtis’s iconic photos of Native Americans, taken in the early years of the 20th century, revealed much…
Mistress Shakespeare
Basing her premise on a marriage bond found in Worcester, England, author Harper has fashioned an intriguing and plausible story…
The Women
The visionary, egocentric subject of this book, architect/designer Frank Lloyd Wright, changed the course of history. Whatever his faults, foibles,…
Dalliance
In May of 1848, while visiting relatives and friends in New York City, Mary Turner has a very strange dream.…
Signora Da Vinci
An imaginative speculation on the life of Caterina, Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, this first-person account begins in 1452, when a…
The King’s Grey Mare
Elizabeth Woodville, young and unbelievably beautiful, finds favor at the court of her mother’s cousin, Marguerite of Anjou. Catching the…
Crown in Candlelight
Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461.…
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