Biographical Fiction
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
From Tickhill, 1348
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1341.When the Duke of Brittany settles his will on his half-brother, Count John de Montfort, the succession is challenged by the old duke’...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
Ace, Marvel, Spy: A Novel of Alice Marble
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Alice Marble (1913-1990) rose to the world’s no. 1 tennis rank in the late 1930s. This fictionalized account focuses on two alternating timelines—...Read Review
A Calamity of Noble Houses
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What price honour? The destiny of two noble families hangs in the balance in 1930s Tunisia when a never-disclosed letter, assumed to be ...Read Review
Allegro
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In Allegro, Ariel Dorfman imagines Wolfgang Mozart at three distinct stages: as a child, a young man, and toward the end of his ...Read Review
Harlem Rhapsody
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An unsung heroine of the Harlem Renaissance gets her due in this glamorous narrative. Jessie Fauset was the editor of W.E.B. ...Read Review
