Biographical Fiction
Doubting Thomas
On 8 January 1697, a young student at Edinburgh University, 20-year-old Thomas Aikenhead, was executed for blasphemy. This was the…
Ecstasy
This is an intimate deep-dive into the thoughts of the composer Alma Schindler Mahler during her marriage to Gustav Mahler.…
White Houses
Editors' choice
Bloom has created an unforgettable voice for journalist Lorena Hickok, as she reminisces about her decades-long love affair with Eleanor…
The Wreckage of Eden
Robert Winter presides over the wreckage of the Eden given to white European settlers as Manifest Destiny in the first…
Monster: The Story of Young Mary Shelley
This serious, thoughtful literary novel reimagines the education and incidents that inspired Mary Godwin (later Shelley) in writing her most…
Lady Mary
1527. Eleven-year-old Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon, are at the Palace…
The Last Man in Europe
Editors' choice
Eric Blair, known to the world by his pen name, George Orwell, spent his youthful journalistic career writing about England’s…
The Secret Life of Mrs. London
The Secret Life of Mrs. London, Rebecca Rosenberg’s debut novel, is set in San Francisco in 1915 on the brink…
Varina
At Saratoga Springs in 1906, the widowed Varina Howell Davis relates pieces of her life’s journey to visitor James Blake…
Ike and Kay
During World War II, British senior military officials and American media sources alike were scandalised by the close relationship between…
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