Biographical Fiction
The Boleyn Secret
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This expansive novel, with its extraordinary breadth of knowledge and scrupulous attention to detail, tells the story of a sidelined Tudor personage, Katherine ...Read Review
The Crownless Queen
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The Crownless Queen is the second part of Elizabeth Chadwick’s duology about the life of Joan of Kent. In this instalment, we ...Read Review
License to Thrill: Lily Bollinger
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In her recent series, Rosenberg’s goal is to shine light on significant women in history who have previously been overlooked. She achieves ...Read Review
Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom
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The introduction to this graphic novel sets the stage for a tale about an enslaved woman in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1866, who ...Read Review
Love, Sivvy
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Love, Sivvy is a biographical novel about the life of author and poet Sylvia Plath during her high school and college education from ...Read Review
Bedlam
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I confess to never having heard of Victorian artist Richard Dadd before reading this strange foray into a strange mind. The cover features ...Read Review
To Tread on Kings
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The final book in Armstrong’s Epic of Hotspur trilogy opens in 1402 when tensions continue to simmer between Harry “Hotspur” Percy and King ...Read Review
Mrs Dickens
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Mrs Dickens is a heartbreaking examination of the marriage of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth, two different personalities who are joined by love ...Read Review
The Queen’s Sister
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Carol McGrath’s The Queen’s Sister shines a light on Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Sir John Seymour of Wulf Hall and sister ...Read Review
A Fatal Love
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
A Fatal Love is a fictionalised account of the life and death of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for murder ...Read Review
