Biographical Fiction
The Homecoming
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This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review
The Language of Food (UK) / Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen (US)
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It’s not often you find a book that’s a real feast, but this is one of them. Annabel Abbs’ novel is ...Read Review
Unfinished: The Inspired Life of Elisabetta Sirani
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Unfinished tells the story of the remarkable 17th-century Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani, who became one of the greatest artists of her time but ...Read Review
My Queen, My Love: A Novel of Henrietta Maria
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Henrietta Maria in this book’s subtitle was the daughter of Henri IV (1553-1610), France’s first Bourbon king, and his wife Marie (1575...Read Review
Palace of Flies
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In this melancholy, atmospheric novella, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), the former darling of fin de siècle Vienna, returns to a spa near Salzburg ...Read Review
The Mayfair Bookshop: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Nancy Mitford comes to life on the page in this dual-timeline story about Nancy’s personal pursuit of happiness before and during WW2, ...Read Review
Greenland
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The historical events evoked in this novel are those surrounding the affair between British author E. M. Forster, best known for his keen ...Read Review
Still Life
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Antwerp, 1604: Clara Peeters, aged ten, is already a gifted painter when her mother dies in childbirth. The title Still Life refers to Peeters’ ...Read Review
A Net for Small Fishes
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Biographical FictionLiteraryThriller
London, 1609. Anne Turner, seamstress and mother of six with a much older husband and heavy debts, can’t believe her luck when she’...Read Review
The Bee & The Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott & Emily Dickinson
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What if Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson secretly wrote to each other for twenty-five years? In this epistolary novel, the collaborative effort ...Read Review