Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris is a very successful British author of historical fiction. The theme of Act of Oblivion is England after the fall of the Puritan Commonwealth in 1660. Nearly all the characters are...
Literature - Biographical Novel
Boy from Buchenwald
Romek Waisman, a Polish Jew, was only nine years old when Germany invaded Poland; his father tried to save him but he and other children ended up in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The camp was liberated...
Adriaan Brouwer
"Adriaan Brouwer" is a biographical novel about this Flamish painter who was probably a pupil of Frans Hals and later on admired and respected by Rubens and Rembrandt. The story, told by the painter himself...
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
It narrates the biography of the spy Ursula Kuczynski (also Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger) (1907-2000), writer, Soviet agent, and communist militant, she was a colonel of the Soviet...
Bakhita
A historical novel inspired by the life of Saint Josephine Bakhita. When she was seven years old, she was abducted from her village in Darfur, and began to experience the horrors and sufferings of slavery...
Hippie
Paulo Coelho is Brazilian (Rio de Janeiro, 1947) and he worked as a scene director and as a journalist before devoting himself exclusively to writing. He is mostly known for his novel The Alchemist...
Ramses: The Temple of a Million Years
This is the second book of the pentalogy on the great Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses. After the death of Seti, Ramses becomes Pharaoh. Now he must consolidate his authority by fighting against those who want to...
Sweet Caress. The Many Lives of Amory Clay
This novel is about the intensive life of the fictional Amory Clay (1908-1983), who, ever since she was small, felt called to be a photographer. At the same time, she was a frivolous-minded person with no...
The aviator's wife
An historical fiction novel about the troubled marriage of Anne Morrow to world-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh: the kidnapping and murder of the first of their 7 children at age 2; Anne’s struggle to...