Biographical Fiction
The Boy King (The Seymour Saga)
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Edward Tudor is nine years old when his father, King Henry VIII, dies and he assumes the throne of England in 1547. In the ...Read Review
The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus
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Set in the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul in 1903-1905, this novel, written by a direct descendant, chronicles the lengthy gilded imprisonment and ...Read Review
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Daughter
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Starting with her childhood in 1847, this novel covers the life of Queen Victoria’s oldest daughter, also called Victoria (nicknamed Vicky), until 1871. From ...Read Review
A Russian Sister: A Novel
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It’s winter 1889, and Masha C., a Moscow schoolteacher, fears for her brother, Antosha, a famous short-story writer and physician, whose depression tears ...Read Review
The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew
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A historical woman with the delightful name of Temperance Flowerdew played a crucial role in the early colony of Jamestown, Virginia. She married ...Read Review
Something Worth Doing
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In 19th-century Oregon, Abigail Scott Duniway was a wife, mother, sister and aunt but also a pioneering suffragist deserving of the same recognition ...Read Review
Bix
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Canadian artist Scott Chantler’s new graphic novel follows a legendary American musician’s rise and fall during the Jazz Age. Born in ...Read Review
A Feigned Madness
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The legendary journalist Nellie Bly pretended to be insane so she could expose the horrific world of Blackwell’s Asylum, a place filled ...Read Review
Before the Crown
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It is 1943, and the future Queen Elizabeth II of England is cooped up in Windsor Castle. She is frustrated at her inability to ...Read Review
The War of the Poor
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It is fair to say that in Germany, Thomas Müntzer is a hero of sorts. The 16th-century reformist has been the subject ...Read Review
