Biographical Fiction
Clara and the Man With Books in his Window
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In this picture book based on the life of the author’s mother, the daughter of a laundrywoman delivers clothes to the biggest ...Read Review
Rome
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Ben Kane’s writing career has ranged over a number of historical periods and figures: Hannibal, Spartacus, Napoleon, Richard the Lionheart. In his ...Read Review
Giant
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
A story of friendship across the class divide, the importance of creativity and an insight into the early life of novelist C. S. ...Read Review
Maria La Divina
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This fictionalized biography of opera diva Maria Callas (1923-1977) follows her life beginning with her difficult childhood in Astoria, New York. Her mother, ...Read Review
Lizzie
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
August 4, 1892, began like any ordinary day for businessman Andrew Borden, but culminated in two brutal murders which rocked the town of Fall River, ...Read Review
The Wanderer and the Way (Cuthbert’s People)
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Set mainly in ninth-century Spain, the subject of this book is a man named Theodemir, a historical bishop who helped found the pilgrimage ...Read Review
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
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
