Browsing: Biographical Fiction

Today’s the day Nancy Maidstone is going to hang.In her time, she’s been a wartime evacuee, land-girl, slaughterhouse worker, supermarket…

An “engrossing” and “captivating” novel inspired by true events (Kirkus Reviews): In 1887, Nellie Bly spent 10 days undercover at a psychiatric hospital. Thirty years later, Nellie’s young secretary records her boss’s story — and unearths the secrets she kept hidden from the world…

A #1 International Bestseller “A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally…

Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The…

WINNER OF THE 2020 CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of…

“Signs, wonders, and witchcraft beset 17th-century France” in this “grim but spellbinding” novel of a mother searching for her son…

A must-read! When writer Vera is befriended by Princess Margaret, she gets a rare look inside an unfamiliar world in this historical novel that’s “compulsively readable and brimming with delicious drama” (New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton).

What WATER FOR ELEPHANTS was to the circus, TEMPTATION RAG is to ragtime . . . 5-star pick from Readers’…

After being arrested, pregnant Jenny is shipped to Australia. There, her small colony struggles to survive — but she has a daring plan to reclaim their freedom. “Keneally’s tale of this fierce, passionate, unstoppable woman will leave you breathless” (New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Cobbs).

Hildegard of Bingen dreams of studying medicine — but how can she choose between her calling and the expectations of her church and community? This sweeping novel reimagines the life of one of Germany’s first female physicians.