Biographical Fiction
When I Was
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Miranda Miller’s ninth novel is her most autobiographical but written not as a memoir but a ‘novel of childhood in 1950s London’. ...Read Review
Rapture
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Emily Maguire’s new novel, Rapture, takes as its inspiration the legend of Pope Joan, reworking key elements of the myth to create ...Read Review
The Mare
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Hermine Braunsteiner was a guard at the Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, where she earned the soubriquet “die stampfende Stüte” – “the ...Read Review
The Sable Cloak
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This is a multi-generational story of the Jordan Sable family set in St. Louis, Missouri. By the 1930s, a pillar of the Black ...Read Review
Charlotte
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In 1854, Charlotte Brontë, honeymooning in Ireland with Arthur Bell Nicholls, reported to her former teacher Margaret Wooler that she had met her new ...Read Review
Fifteen Wild Decembers
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The six Brontë children – Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne – all died young, leaving their father alone in his final years; their mother ...Read Review
One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Michael Rosen has researched the effect of the Holocaust in World War Two on members of his Jewish family and explored this in ...Read Review
The Queen’s Rival (Tudor Royals Series)
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Tudormania has come and gone, but the era remains popular, and many individuals’ stories remain obscure. Such is the case with Lady Margaret ...Read Review
Tyrant (The Nero Trilogy)
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Nero, the first novel in Iggulden’s trilogy set in first-century Rome, ends with a marriage proposal. Tyrant, the second book, opens where ...Read Review
The English Wife
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Stuart’s solid biographical fiction of Clementine Churchill spotlights two women in a world of conflict and rising fascism. Clemmie’s life from 1938 ...Read Review
