Biographical Fiction
Realm
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Realm by Alexandrea Weis is a historical tale about Roxana, the daughter of a Bactrian chieftain, who captures the heart of the Greek ...Read Review
Lady Franklin of Russell Square
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Set in the mid-19th century, this historical novel takes the form of detailed letters by Lady Franklin to her then-missing husband, arctic ...Read Review
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
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This profoundly painful, beautifully written, and deeply moving fictional biography of Africa’s first canonized Catholic saint plunges the reader into the bottomless ...Read Review
Stanley and Elsie
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Stanley and Elsie is the story of the artist Stanley Spencer, told mostly through the eyes of his housekeeper, Elsie Munday. It focuses ...Read Review
The Red Daughter: A Novel
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In 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva defected from the Soviet Union to the United States. This created a diplomatic storm because of who she was: the ...Read Review
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth—the name itself is enough to capture the attention of readers interested in fictional biographies. Thornton’s gem of a ...Read Review
Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel
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The work of artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) runs the gamut from sedate portraits of the Spanish royal family to pornographic nudes to ...Read Review
Courting Mr. Lincoln: A Novel
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Two visitors arrive in Springfield, Illinois, in 1839: an aristocratic Kentucky belle with politics in her lineage, and a backwoods lawyer, Kentuckian by birth, ...Read Review
Leading Men
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Leading Men achieves what historical fiction does best. Taking the spotlight from the famous protagonists in history, the novel projects its luminous beam ...Read Review
My MacArthur
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Douglas MacArthur and Isabel Rosario Cooper meet in 1930 in Manila, the Philippines. He’s a successful army leader and she’s an aspiring ...Read Review
