Biographical Fiction
Daughter of the Gods
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For those passionate about ancient Egypt, there are few pharaohs as intriguing as Hatshepsut. In Thornton’s telling, Hatshepsut is the pharaoh’s ...Read Review
Edwin: High King of Britain
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There are reasons why so little historical fiction has been set in England in the 7th century. Not only are contemporary accounts scarce, ...Read Review
The Scandalous Duchess
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It is 1372. The young widow Lady Katherine Swynford is facing destitution after the death of her husband. She appeals to John Plantagenet, Duke ...Read Review
The Secret Life of William Shakespeare
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We know little of the glovemaker’s son from Stratford. We know he was married at age 18 to Anne Hathaway, a woman six ...Read Review
Paint
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Paint is the fictionalized story of real-life Emilia Bassano Lanier, a member of the family of Elizabethan court musicians, the first Englishwoman to ...Read Review
Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great
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It is 9 AM on November 5, 1796. Catherine II, Empress of Russia, is 67 years old. Her splitting headache is followed by numbness in her hand. ...Read Review
Black Rock
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In 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. In May of 1821 he died there. Black Rock ...Read Review
Madam: A Novel of New Orleans
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Madam: A Novel of New Orleans follows the true story of Mary Deubler, a back- alley whore born into the licentious world of ...Read Review
Gertrude
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Hassan Najmi, a renowned Moroccan author and poet, presents in Gertrude an unusual novel about the famous American Gertrude Stein. Najmi’s narrator ...Read Review
The Man Who Loved Dogs
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Three men who loved dogs play major roles in this novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky. A Cuban veterinary magazine editor meets ...Read Review
