Biographical Fiction
The Last Boy
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Dedicated to the real George Brewster, this story is based on the last child sweep who died by getting stuck in a chimney. ...Read Review
The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery
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Hazel Martyn, John Lavery, Michael Collins: three names pivotal to Cahall’s fine biographical fiction, which features a large secondary cast of early 20...Read Review
The Little Books of the Little Brontës
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The childhoods of the Brontë family have inspired a number of picture book creators for all ages, particularly the playful worlds they wrote ...Read Review
Arden
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In 16th-century England, Will Shakespeare wants nothing more than to leave his father’s gloving business, provide for his family, and make his ...Read Review
The Mischief Makers
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This is a beautifully told historical novel following the life of Daphne du Maurier, the famous author. It starts in the early 20th ...Read Review
Lightborne
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The death of playwright Christopher Marlowe in 1593 has generated a whole industry of speculation on why he died the way he did. Ostensibly ...Read Review
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay
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Elsie Mackay. So much for people to admire. Wealthy, physically attractive, and intelligent. A successful moving picture actor, the first female jockey, and ...Read Review
The Life of Herod the Great
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Salvaged from a fire, re-assembled and edited, this unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel is only now being posthumously published. In these pages, Hurston ...Read Review
The Woman with the Stone Knife
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Dale Neal reimagines the life of Helena Ostenaco Timberlake—a woman barely a footnote to history, who came forward in 1786 claiming to be ...Read Review
The Unexpected Diva
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An extraordinary tale of Eliza Taylor Greenfield’s rise, in the years before the Civil War, from a plantation in Natchez to international ...Read Review
