Biographical Fiction
Ironside
King Sweyn Forkbeard invaded England in the summer of 1013, when this novel begins. We follow the story of Wulfgar, a ten-year-old…
Matilda Empress
Life is anything but easy for Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. As a child she was married…
Envoy of Jerusalem
This is the third in Schrader’s biographical trilogy about Balian d’Ibelin and the death-throes of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem.…
The Sultan, the Vampyr and the Soothsayer
Editors' choice
1442: The Draculesti family rules Wallachia (modern-day Romania), the buffer between the Holy Roman Empire to the north and the…
The Beachcomber’s Wife
Edmund Banfield, Australian journalist and natural history aficionado, was known for his numerous writings about early 20th-century life on Dunk…
Jerzy
By peeling off layers of fiction to expose the facts of Jerzy Kosinski’s life, author Jerome Charyn chops through the…
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
In 1943, 17-year-old Pino Lella strolls along the streets of Milan, Italy. Outside a bakery, he meets the beautiful Anna.…
The Spy
Why was an adventuress, who rose to notoriety as an exotic dancer in pre-World War I Paris, executed by firing…
My Name Is Victoria
1820s. Princess Victoria is being brought up in almost total isolation in Kensington Palace. Her mother is under the thumb…
See What I Have Done
Lizzie Borden’s acquittal for the murder of her father and stepmother has already generated numerous books, films and plays, even…
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