Biographical Fiction

The Devil’s Slave (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy)

By Tracy Borman - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

In 17th-century England, misogyny, lust, and religious bigotry drive most of King James I/VI’s decisions, according to Tracy Borman, who continues ...Read Review

Elizabeth of Bohemia: A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen

By David Elias - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England, narrates her own story in Elias’s wide-ranging novel. Her life encompasses many seismic events, ...Read Review

Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor

By Rebecca Rosenberg - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionWestern

Rebecca Rosenberg, author of The Secret Life of Mrs. London, offers up a fascinating insight into another American woman of substance with Gold ...Read Review

Ada

By Kaz Cooke - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction

Born in 1869 in a grimy English coal mining town and orphaned at age 12, Ada Delroy was taken in by theatre performers. That real-life ...Read Review

Commodus (The Damned Emperors)

By Simon Turney - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

My all-time favourite kind of historical novel is the kind where I learn about a real person I know very little about, and ...Read Review

Stars in His Eyes

By Adrian Nathan West (trans.) - By Marti Gironell - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

In 1949, twenty-one-year-old Ceferino Carrión flees Barcelona to escape Franco’s violent regime and evade mandatory military service. He stows away on a ...Read Review

A Man in Love

By David Dollenmayer (trans.) - By Martin Walser - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionLiterary

In the summer of 1823, while on a promenade in Marienbad, Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, then 73, literary, scientific, and cultural lion, confidant of kings, ...Read Review

Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China’s Cultural Revolution

By Da Chen - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

The author narrates this novel-like memoir depicting how, when he was a child, he and his conscientious older sister Sisi were forced to ...Read Review

The Earl in Black Armor

By Nancy Blanton - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction

Ireland, 1635. Faolán Burke is ordered to Dublin Castle by his clan chief to spy on the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth. Wentworth ...Read Review

The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

By Susan Holloway Scott - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Scott (I, Eliza Hamilton), has taken on a difficult task here in imaginatively illuminating the life of a woman hidden in history: Mary ...Read Review