Biographical Fiction
Daughter of Sand and Stone
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At seventeen, Zenobia bat-Zabbai of 3rd-century Palmyra is old enough to wed, but none of the prospective suitors meets her approval. She is ...Read Review
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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In 1950s New York City, the newspapers’ society pages were full of pictures and stories of the high and mighty women married to ...Read Review
The Abbess of Whitby
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Like all Oxford history students of my generation, I had to start my course by studying Bede’s History of the English Church ...Read Review
Platinum Doll
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What a gem of a book this is! Anne Girard has taken the story of Jean Harlow, glamorous bombshell of the early days ...Read Review
Ophelia’s Muse
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Ophelia’s Muse chronicles the tumultuous relationship between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his muse, Elizabeth Siddal. Told from alternating points of view, the ...Read Review
The Determined Heart
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Mary Shelley’s life provides rich material for this biographical novel. Born to an early feminist mother who died giving birth, Mary was ...Read Review
Caged Angel
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In 1837, aged 23, Angela Burdett inherits her grandfather’s share in Coutts Bank, making her the richest woman in England. She changes her name ...Read Review
The Woman in the Photograph
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Lee Miller arrives in Paris in 1929 just in time to meet her idol, Man Ray. She asks him to take her on as ...Read Review
Everyone Has Their Reasons
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Joseph Matthews has created a fictional picture of the little-known Herschel Grynszpan, a “teenage assassin” whose killing of a consular official in the ...Read Review
All the Stars in the Heavens
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In 1935, Loretta Young and Clark Gable meet on the set of The Call of the Wild, being filmed on location on snowy Mount ...Read Review
