Biographical Fiction

Mary I: Queen of Sorrows (UK) / The Passionate Tudor (US)

By Alison Weir - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

A lot has been written about Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and queen regnant of England, in the last 25 years. Most of ...Read Review

Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

By Denny S. Bryce - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

On the face of it, a close friendship between jazz icon Ella Fitzgerald and movie superstar Marilyn Monroe might be surprising, but by ...Read Review

You Cannot Forbid the Flower

By Elizabeth Chesla - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Amazon depicts You Cannot Forbid the Flower as a work of fiction about a young man who struggles for survival after losing the ...Read Review

The Lionheart’s Bride (Berengaria of Navarre Medieval Trilogy)

By Austin Hernon - Published 2023

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

This 12th-century historical adventure follows Princess Berengaria on her quest to catch up with and marry Richard I, King of England, as he ...Read Review

Above the Salt

By Katherine Vaz - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Beginning in the early 1840s, Above the Salt is a monumental epic of love and heartache drawn against a backdrop of religious persecution, ...Read Review

The Painter’s Daughters

By Emily Howes - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This biographical novel focuses on Margaret and Molly, the daughters of artist Thomas Gainsborough, taking them through their lives from childhood. The narrator, ...Read Review

The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters

By Clare McHugh - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Decades before the Bolshevik Revolution and the Romanov dynasty’s terrible end, the future Tsarina Alexandra and her older sister, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, ...Read Review

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein (US) / Mary: Or, the Birth of Frankenstein (UK)

By Anne Eekhout - By Laura Watkinson (trans.) - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This impressionistic novel tracks the influences that led Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein. It takes place in two timelines: Cologny, Switzerland, in 1816, where ...Read Review

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

By ReShonda Tate - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Seeing this biographical novel about Hattie McDaniel, you may initially assume it traces her journey from her humble Wichita origins through her groundbreaking ...Read Review

The Woman with No Name

By Audrey Blake - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This novel is based on the real life of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent Yvonne Rudellat. Born and raised in France, Yvonne moved ...Read Review