Biographical Fiction
Prize for the Fire
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During England’s Reformation, when Henry VIII breaks from Rome and Cromwell is closing monasteries, fear and unease take hold with each new ...Read Review
Man in a Cage
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Richard Lynch Garner is convinced primates communicate with one another in a language that laid the evolutionary groundwork for human speech. He travels ...Read Review
The Village Idiot
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The eccentric life and adventures of renowned Expressionist painter Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) in early 20th-century Paris is hypnotically imagined in The Village Idiot, ...Read Review
The American Adventuress
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In this fictional biography of Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, C. W. Gortner serves up a lively and engrossing portrait of an ...Read Review
The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel
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The Blumkin of the title is Yakov Grigorievich Blumkin, born in Odessa in 1900 and executed by Stalin in 1929. The most famous deed of ...Read Review
Bonny & Read
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Julie Walker’s debut novel centres on her long-time fascination with two of history’s most notorious pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. ...Read Review
The Chosen
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November 1912. On a cold, wet autumnal morning, Thomas Hardy’s wife Emma dies suddenly of heart failure. With both born in 1840, and hence ...Read Review
The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
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This is a novel about the career of pioneering female painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, who was starting to rise in the French ...Read Review
A Dress of Violet Taffeta
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This absorbing and beautifully written novel tells the story of one of the most iconic fashion designers of the late 19th and early 20...Read Review
Beheld: Godiva’s Story
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Although most historians believe it’s highly doubtful that it ever happened, Lady Godiva’s naked ride through the streets of Coventry, England, ...Read Review
