Biographical Fiction
A Man in Love
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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
The Earl in Black Armor
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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
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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
The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly
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In this slim but engaging novel, Braithwaite treats readers to an in-depth look at Nellie Bly’s famous ten-day stay in Blackwell’s ...Read Review
The Unbeliever
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The Unbeliever is fictionalised history rather than historical fiction. It is based closely on the real-life story of a Bulgarian diplomat who was ...Read Review
The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong
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Want to entertain yourself with “Ghosting Through: Ficto-Critical Translation as a Means of Resisting the Appropriations of History and Place”? Nah, me either – ...Read Review
Cuthbert of Farne
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History teaches us that Saint Cuthbert was a monk and hermit in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. He was buried at Lindisfarne Abbey, ...Read Review
The Column of Burning Spices: A Novel of Germany’s First Female Physician (Hildegard of Bingen)
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“Who is this woman who rises out of the wilderness like a column of smoke from burning spices?” –Pope Eugenius Even the title ...Read Review
Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O’Malley
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Grace O’Malley was lord of the O Maille dynasty in the west of Ireland. The story opens with her childhood, brought up ...Read Review
An Artist in Her Own Right
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From a young age, Augustine Dufresne aspires to be an artist in her own right. However, born in Paris during the first year ...Read Review
