Biographical Fiction

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

By (tr. William Scott Wilson; abridged) - By Eiji Yoshikawa - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionEpicMilitary

This book spans a period between 1536 and 1583, and is essentially the story (very well-known there) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s rise from street brat ...Read Review

Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By Robert Nye - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionLiterary

This is Anne Hathaway’s story, written years after her husband has died. Her daughter Susanna has given her a beautiful book of ...Read Review

The Old American

By Ernest Hebert - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionLiterary

This wonderful story fictionalizes the real life captivity of Nathan Blake, an English settler who was taken prisoner during a French raid on ...Read Review

When We Were Gods: The Story of Cleopatra

By Colin Falconer - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Here is yet another novel about the last of the Ptolemy pharaohs, Cleopatra. Young when the reins of rulership are placed in her ...Read Review

Bunker Hill: A Novel

By Janet Tinney - Published 2000

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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary

Joseph Warren (1741-1775) was one of the most important and influential political leaders in the opening stages of the American Revolution. He grew ...Read Review

Artemisia

By Alexandra Lapierre - By Liz Heron trans. - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionLiterary

  This extraordinary novel is a must read for anyone remotely interested in Baroque Italy, art, or painter Artemisia Gentileschi. I have very ...Read Review

Mr Darwin’s Shooter

By Roger McDonald - Published 2000

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AdventureBiographical Fiction

In 1832, a ship named Beagle sailed, carrying Charles Darwin and his assistant Syms Covington. Syms served as Darwin’s shooter, collecting specimens for ...Read Review

The Chivalry of Crime

By Desmond Barry - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionWestern

Jesse James is one of those characters from the American frontier past whose terrifying charisma exerts as powerful a hold on contemporary readers ...Read Review

Harry Gold

By Millicent Dillon - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Who was Harry Gold? An American chemist who committed the “crime of the (20th) century” by passing information about the atomic bomb to ...Read Review

Grant

By Max Byrd - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Grant joins Ev Ehrlich’s Grant Speaks and Richard Parry’s That Fateful Lightning (see Review 13) as novels concerning the life and especially ...Read Review