Biographical Fiction
Mrs. Lowe-Porter
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Knowing Helen Lowe-Porter translated Thomas Mann’s extensive output piques our interest from the moment young Helen Porter arrives in Germany to further ...Read Review
Well Behaved Women
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In 1919, innocent Maybelle Crabtree arrives in Los Angeles from Kentucky. She’s giving out church leaflets when she spots a beautiful woman, Joan, ...Read Review
The Fraud
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It is pleasant to have a historical novel written primarily about a historical novelist. Zadie Smith has made her first foray into historical ...Read Review
The General and Julia
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In the author’s note, Clinch asserts: “We understand the hearts and minds of our loved ones not by the use of some ...Read Review
Flight of the Wild Swan
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This powerful biographical novel of Florence Nightingale starts with Florence, an upper-class child in Victorian England, being called by her governess “a little ...Read Review
Clairmont
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This novel ranges over 30 years and across Europe but again and again returns to a seminal year and place for the chief characters ...Read Review
Crow Mary
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Crow Mary is based on the life of Goes First, a Crow chief’s daughter. Her story begins in 1863 as a young girl ...Read Review
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden
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Backstabbing. Competition. Sabotage. Who knew the beauty business could be so ugly? This is the somewhat true story of two intrepid entrepreneurs. New ...Read Review
That Bligh Girl
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The early 1800s. Governance of the convict colony of New South Wales is in disarray and borders on anarchy at the hands of ...Read Review
Trust: The Anatomy of a Marriage
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Bedfordshire, 1649: This portrait of a marriage is based on the true story of Dorothy Osborne, wife of Sir William Temple, employer of a ...Read Review
