Biographical Fiction
Mata Hari’s Last Dance
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In this latest novel by one of my favorite authors, Michelle Moran shakes off her familiar plot design (humble main character, ruthless antagonist, ...Read Review
Cry Mother Spain
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This is a rather special book, as it is a daughter’s fictional re-creation of what her mother Montse went through in the ...Read Review
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
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A brilliant, inventive debut novel, Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings presents these two historical figures in intimate detail well beyond the historical ...Read Review
The Autumn Throne
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The Autumn Throne is the third and final instalment of Elizabeth Chadwick’s Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy. Eleanor – or Alienor as she would ...Read Review
The Leopards of Normandy: Duke
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Book 2 of the Leopards of Normandy trilogy opens in 1037. William, Duke of Normandy, is nine years old. William’s guardian, Robert, Archbishop of ...Read Review
The Girl in the Glass Tower
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Queen Elizabeth I is ageing and without an heir. Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary Queen of Scots, is first in line for the ...Read Review
Carrie Welton
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“Who was Carrie Welton, and why does her horse deserve a statue in a city park?” If I was allowed only 16 words for ...Read Review
A Measure of Light
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It is often said that New England’s Puritans came to America for freedom of worship. In a sense that is true. They ...Read Review
Max Baer and the Star of David
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This short novel employs the literary artifice of a fictional eyewitness account, ostensibly to tell Max Baer’s story from 1929 until his death, ...Read Review
The Rivals of Versailles
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The Rivals of Versailles, the second book in the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, tells the story of King Louis XV’s most powerful ...Read Review
