Historical Biographical Fiction

In this historical fiction following Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, join the story from Scotland in 1746. This dramatic story is based on the true events surrounding the Jacobite Rising in the mid 1700s, in which the young prince is embroiled. In Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt to tamp out a revolution he finds himself entangled in politics, love, life, and the crushing weight of royalty.

Even with her privileged life, Lady Hester Stanhope knows that claiming the adventurous life she truly wants will not be easy, thanks to her eccentric father's stifling grip. With the help of her renowned statesman uncle William Pitt the Younger, she takes on the glittering, treacherous heights of London Society. Her formidable intelligence, outspoken opinions, and headstrong determination gain the favor of the beau monde's leading taste-maker Beau Brummell—and she quickly learns to bend the rules of the ton to her own advantage.

From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse—the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia—and her sister, Princess Ella. Their decision to marry into the Romanov royal family changed history. They were granddaughters of Queen...

Right before talking pictures slug Tinsel Town in the jaw, a luminous silent screen star converts her private estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel. The lush grounds soon become a haven for Hollywood hopefuls to meet, drink, and revel through the night. George Cukor is in the pool, Tallulah Bankhead is at the bar, and Scott Fitzgerald is sneaking off to a bungalow with Sheilah Graham while Madame Alla Nazimova keeps watch behind her lace curtains.

From author Kimberly Cutter comes the story of Jehanne d'Arc-the girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, and the maid who became a legend.

England, 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, waits in Windsor Castle to meet his new mistress, the beautiful and lonely Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V. Her infant son is crowned king of England and France, and while the country simmers on the brink of civil war, Owen becomes her protector. They fall in love, risking Owen's life and Queen Catherine's reputation, but how do they found the dynasty that changes British history - the Tudors?

Nancy Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom throughBible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind gentleman exchange letters in 1845, his fondness for her poetry takes an unexpected turn - inspiring her secret sonnets and dreams.

Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.

Chicago, 1920s: Movie starlet Silver Dollar Tabor's glittering life shatters after a brutal attack awakens a hidden self. Plunging into the city's dangerous underworld of burlesque speakeasies, she blurs the lines between ambition and destruction, testing her love for screenwriter Carl. This Jazz Age, Prohibition-era tale explores the dark side of fame and the fragility of identity.

A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women...

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny “A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of the...

Dorothy Draper has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. With the restoration of The Greenbrier resort at her fingertips, Dorothy aspires to give new life to a place that’s sentimental to her, and to bring a new spark to interior design. In 1908, young Dorothy...

Winner, Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Awards (Fiction), Shortlist Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey...

Beginning in 1930s Germany and based on their real lives, four cousins as close as siblings—Bettina, Trudi, Gustav, and Gertrud—share the experiences of the young, including first loves, marriages, and children. Bettina, the oldest, struggles to help her parents with their failing business. Trudi dresses in the latest fashions and tries to make everything look beautiful. Gustav is an artist at heart and hopes to one day open a tailoring shop. Gertrud, the youngest, is forced by her parents to keep secrets, but that doesn’t stop her from chasing boys.

Night after night jostling crowds clamour for entry to Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal with one name on their lips: the Real Mackay. But who is he? The answer leaps out of this meticulously researched historical novel which plunges the listener into the weird and wonderful golden era of Scottish national drama, seen through the eyes of Charles Mackay and his family.

Der isländische Dichter Jónas Hallgrímsson gilt als das größte Talent seiner Generation. Als er 1845 im fernen Kopenhagen nach einem schweren Sturz ins Hospital muss, ahnt er, dass seine Tage gezählt sind. Viele Menschen, Gelehrte, Dichter und Politiker besuchen ihn, und so erlebt Jónas auf dem Krankenbett noch einmal sein bewegtes Leben. Er erinnert sich an þóra, seine große, unerfüllte Liebe, und an das dramatische Schicksal seines Jugendfreundes, des Hirtenjungen Keli, der einst im Hörgárdalur in Nordisland spurlos verschwand.

London, 1987: Als Rose den Nachlass ihrer Mutter sichtet, entdeckt sie, dass diese ein Adoptivkind war. Bei der Recherche nach ihrer Herkunft stößt Rose auf einen Hinweis, der sie zu einem von Anna Freuds Kriegswaisenhäusern führt. Dort betreut 1945 die aus Wien geflüchtete Jüdin Helen sechs Kinder aus Theresienstadt, nicht ahnend, dass sie mit einem kleinen Mädchen schicksalhaft verbunden ist. Erst Jahrzehnte später wird Rose die dramatische Wahrheit herausfinden und erkennen, dass in ihr die Geschichte einer bedingungslosen Freundschaft weiterlebt.

This Splash Read collection includes eight historical fiction short stories about S.T.E.M. pioneers. The stories are "Mary Jackson Builds a Wind Tunnel", "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Crushes Smallpox", "Caroline and William Herschel Explore the Stars", "George Dantzig and the Unsolvable Problem", "Albert Einstein Teaches Himself Math", "Neil Armstrong and Popsicle Sticks", "Arthur Fry Invents Post-It Notes", and "Notch Learns to Code".

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh...

If you have found this booklet, I am hopefully already dead, buried next to my father and mother, within spitting distance of Thomas, Elsie, and Sally Somers. And, though it is called the Gilley Burying Ground, my father would be irked (when was he not?) to lie for eternity next to the neighbors he so despised. Though I wanted to understand his feelings, I wanted even more to understand the Somers, whose exploits in Southwest Harbor were the subject of so much scrutiny and conjecture, but whose daily lives were full of earnest hard work.