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