Biographical Fiction
Dangerous Freedom
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This isn’t a typical novel about slavery. It is a fictional portrayal of a real figure, Dido, the daughter of an African ...Read Review
Tsarina
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This is the story of Catherine I of Russia, not to be confused with Catherine the Great. This Catherine was born in 1684 to ...Read Review
Fierce Dreamer
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was raised in the almost exclusively male art world of 17th-century Italy. She had a natural eye for colour, texture, ...Read Review
Mistress Yale’s Diaries, The Glorious Return (The Yale Trilogy)
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On her return from Madras, Catherine Yale continues her diary recording the events, politics and people of 1690s London. Her husband, Elihu Yale, ...Read Review
Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen (UK) / Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen (US)
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This is a superb novel about a young queen who was the victim of powerful and ambitious persons around her. Neglected by her ...Read Review
Raphael, Painter in Rome
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Stephanie Storey follows up her stunning debut, Oil and Marble, a novel about the rivalry between Leonardo and Michelangelo, with another brilliant novel ...Read Review
On Wilder Seas: The Woman on the Golden Hind
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Most people have heard of Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe aboard the Golden Hind. It is less well-known that for nine ...Read Review
The Mirror & the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
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Following Anne Boleyn’s beheading in May 1536, chief councillor Thomas Cromwell’s star has never shone brighter in Henry VIII’s eyes. But ...Read Review
Anne and Louis: Rulers and Lovers (Anne of Brittany Series)
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In Renaissance Europe, marriages determine the fate of nations. Thanks to careful planning by her mother, young Claude, daughter of Anne of Brittany ...Read Review
Rogue Malory
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The writing of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur as if told by Monty Python. From his cell in Newgate Prison ...Read Review
