Biographical Fiction
Crown in Candlelight
Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461.…
The Scent of Sake
Lebra’s debut is a biographical novel of Rie, the sole heir of the House of Omura, a sake-brewing family in…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, Norah Lofts’s novel about the life of Katherine of Aragon is being reissued again for the…
My Lady of Cleves
The story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, is eloquently told in this reissue from the late…
Vlad: The Last Confession
To undertake the tale of Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince whose savage battle to…
Devil’s Brood
With her customary skill in depicting the personalities of medieval England’s most famously dysfunctional family, Penman delineates the…
The Heretic Queen
THE HERETIC QUEEN As the sole survivor of the line of Nefertiti, a family denounced as heretics and erased from…
The Last Station
This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between…
The Romanov Bride
Editors' choice
In the first two decades of the 20th century, two worlds collide in Russia. The fall of the Romanovs…
The Importance of Being Kennedy
Nora Brennan, newly arrived from Ireland, narrates her life as nursery and companion servant of the renowned Kennedy family.…
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