Ballantine Books

That Churchill Woman

By Stephanie Barron - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Luminous, passionate, rebellious Jennie Churchill, Winston’s glamorous mother, has inspired many biographies and novels. The latest, by Stephanie Barron, author of the ...Read Review

Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel

By Anne Perry - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Dark Tide Rising is Anne Perry’s 24th title in her William Monk series set in Victorian London. This time around, Commander Monk ...Read Review

A Christmas Return

By Anne Perry - Published 2017Published 2017-11-07

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This compact little gem, Perry’s fifteenth Christmas novella, demonstrates her proficiency in writing Victorian-set mysteries. The protagonist is Mariah Ellison, grandmother of ...Read Review

Anne Boleyn, a King’s Obsession (Six Tudor Queens)

By Alison Weir - Published 2017Published 2017-05-16

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is a stunning, engaging, comprehensive and convincing novel. It opens with 11-year-old Anne about to depart from Hever to become one of ...Read Review

Woman in the Shadows (Clara Vine)

By Jane Thynne - Published 2014Published 2016Published 2016-09-06

Genres:

Thriller

Clara Vine is an actress, working in Germany, but she hides a deep secret. She is an undercover British Intelligence agent in a ...Read Review

Bruised Hibiscus

By Elizabeth Nunez - Published 2002 (c2000)

Genres:

InspirationalMystery/Crime

Set in Trinidad in the 1950s, Bruised Hibiscus explores themes that still resonate today– race and gender. Rosa, a white woman married to ...Read Review

Days of Awe

By Achy Obejas - Published 2002

Genres:

AdventureBiographical Fiction

Revolutionary Cuba provides the setting for this autobiographical novel. Alejandra San Josè is born the day Fidel Castro enters Havana. Her parents flee ...Read Review