Biographical Fiction
The Investigators
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Sir John Franklin is best known for leading the doomed expedition in search of the Arctic Northwest Passage and where he perished in 1847. ...Read Review
Becoming St. Patrick: His Slavery
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Hail Glorious St. Patrick, dear saint of our Isle’ is the opening line of the Irish hymn to their patron saint. This excellently ...Read Review
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
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From one of Australia’s most celebrated authors comes a work that gives shape to the historically obscure figure of Eileen O’Shaughnessy (1905...Read Review
Menewood (The Hild Sequence)
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Menewood is a sequel to Griffith’s earlier novel, Hild, and the reader will get the most from it by having read Hild ...Read Review
The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter
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Novels that trace an entire life can show extraordinary depth of character as the protagonists adjust to shifts in circumstance and mature physically ...Read Review
The Royal Windsor Secret
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1914: Marguerite Meller is a successful woman, one of the most famous and sought-after courtesans in Paris. War is raging, but Marguerite continues to ...Read Review
Louise and Vincent
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Byington’s novel’s covers the last 70 days of Vincent van Gogh’s life, when he stayed at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, ...Read Review
The Woman at the Wheel
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Bertha Benz made the first long-distance drive of an early automobile in 1888 in Germany. This novel tells the story of her life from ...Read Review
Starring Adele Astaire
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This charming, witty, and absorbing novel centers on the talented dancer/actress Adele Astaire, who wowed audiences performing with her later more famous ...Read Review
The Glutton
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France, 1798: A patient presents himself at a public hospital in a wretched, moribund condition, claiming to have swallowed a golden fork that tears ...Read Review
