Biographical Fiction

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival....

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes a gripping, never-before-told, medieval battle of the sexes that sheds light on one of medieval royalty's most fascinating women—Queen Matilda.

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Three books. Lots of harrowing, historical adventure! Listen to find out more....

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powerful novel by the bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow and The Ragged Edge of Night....

Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege — but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs....

My name is Elena and I used to be a human being. Now I am a sex slave. If you are reading this diary then I am either dead or I have managed to escape....

This is the story of one of Australia's first true heroes Pemulwuy. A proud and feared Aboriginal warrior, Pemulwuy leads an uncompromising twelve-year war against British colonial oppression and makes the supreme sacrifice in order to guide his people to safety.

Al hilo de la extraordinaria trayectoria de Curie, Rosa Montero construye una narración a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entre el análisis de nuestra época y la evocación íntima....

Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life....

The Girl in the Mirror is a moving and gripping story of a young woman who tries to piece together her past and uncovers a dreadful family secret that has been buried and forgotten....

Ellen is planning the perfect Christmas. This year – this year – Christmas will be PERFECT. This is the year when all the dreams come true....

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....

Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition....

Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....

She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.

King Horic is dead. The oaths that once bonded the Danes and Northmen in the islands of Aquitaine have broken. Hasting's new land is imperiled by fearsome challengers and old foes alike. A rumor from the continent will expose his deepest wound from the past....

Life for the MacLean family in Missoula, Montana, in 1937 centers around family, fly fishing and the Big Blackfoot River. Fly fishing is the one activity where the family can bridge troubled relationships,...

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists....

Alexander's epic quest continues. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King Darius' domination of land and sea....

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....

Family begins with a capital eff. Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned....

12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine....

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors.

The Dalai Lama's cat is back - older, a bit wiser and as curious as ever....

1135, England: Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival, and cousin, Stephen do not know the iron will that drives her. She will win her inheritance against all odds, and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, is now married to a warrior who is fighting to keep Matilda off the throne. But Adeliza knows that Britain's crown belongs to a woman this time. Both women will stand and fight for what they know is right for England's royalty.

Flora Thompson is best known as the author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical, bestselling series exploring Oxfordshire country life in the late 19th century. Heatherley picks up the story a year after her central character, Laura, left Candleford Green, moving on to Grayshott on the Hampshire/Surrey border, and with it, finding a new world. Through Laura, the book explores Flora’s experience working in a post-office, where to her surprise her customers included the authors Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw.

An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past. Joscelin’s youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide.

"Das ist unser neues Zuhause", sagt Mama. "Poppy, du musst dich nie vor mir verstecken, weißt du das denn nicht?", sagt er. "Der hat ein Gesicht wie eine Bowlingkugel", sagt Oma Becker. "Euch klar ausdrücken, Leute, sagt einfach klar und deutlich, was ihr meint", sagt der Lehrer. Hilfe, denkt Poppy. Die sechsjährige Poppy lebt mit ihrer Mutter in einem heruntergekommenen Vorstadtviertel. Eines Tages ziehen sie in eine prachtvolle Villa zu dem neuen Mann ihrer Mutter. Der neuer "Papa" erfüllt Poppy jeden Wunsch.

En 1999 centenares de jóvenes pasaron por las audiciones para interpretar a Harry Potter. Entre los dos candidatos que llegaron hasta el final, Daniel Radcliffe fue elegido por tener, según la directora del casting, «ese algo extra». Al leer estas declaraciones, David Foenkinos empatizó de inmediato con el chico que no tenía ese toque extra: el número dos. Esta novela narra su historia.

Was für eine wunderbare Biographie! Und wie aktuell erscheint plötzlich das ferne 16. Jahrhundert! Nur die Gegenspieler haben gewechselt. Humanismus gegen religiösen Fanatismus. Nationaler Egoismus contra Weltbürgertum. Erasmus hat die EU und die Vereinten Nationen vorausgedacht und die christliche Reformation angestoßen, die dann von Luther, dem religiösen Fanatiker, usurpiert und zur Revolution missbraucht wurde. Erasmus, der Mann des Ausgleichs, hat sich immer wieder um die Versöhnung der Parteien bemüht. Voraussehbar vergeblich.

Even in the most advanced human civilizations, true warriors must be able to separate themselves from the status of prey. For an aspiring Azaarian herald, that crucible begins as a naked warrior cast into the wilderness with nothing more than their own extremities and intellect to survive. While prioritizing their survival activities, they must also complete a journey of nearly five thousand miles before even being accepted into the fold of herald trainees.

Ravenna, A.D. 408. Placidia is watching her family fall apart. When her emperor brother accuses their powerful foster father of treason, the naive imperial princess tries to reason with her sibling to no avail. And after her foster father is lured out of sanctuary and brutally executed, she flees the toxic court to avoid a forced marriage… but to dubious safety.

This is a biographical treatment of the life of John Croft (1807-1883) who was born in England, but spent 16 years (1843-1859) in Sydney, Australia, becoming one of Australia's wealthiest men. It describes Australia's cultural, social, and commercial development in the mid-nineteenth century.

Joddelyn Anderson used to spend everyday hiding from her childhood and living under a false identity to escape her painful life. She suffered tremendous loss as a young girl, then allowed herself to be catapulted into fame at only 18 and lost what remained of who she once was. Using that false identity she achieved the fame she had desired and managed to be the star she once never saw herself as.

Ihre Blumenbilder machten sie weltberühmt – dabei schuf sie Schönheit aus großem Schmerz Die erwachsene Georgia O'Keeffe blickt zurück auf ihr Leben: Auf die schillernden Jahre in New York, wo sie umgeben von Künstlern und Fotografen wilde Jahre verbringt; ihr politisches Engagement bei der National Woman's Party, nicht zuletzt auf ihre große Liebe zu Alfred Stieglitz, dessen Aktfotografien von Georgia ihr Gesicht weit über die Grenzen der USA bekannt macht.

Dünya edebiyatının en büyük yazarlarından olan Fyodor Dostoyevski, bu eseri 1849-1859 yılları arasındaki 10 yıllık Sibirya sürgününden döndükten sonra St. Petersburg’da yazdı. Romanı anlatan, genç bir yazar olan ve gelecek vaat eden İvan Petroviç’in, yazma yöntemleri ve toplumsal konumu Dostoyevski’nin kendi yaşamından alınmıştır. Kahraman, büyük bir ünden yoksulluğa düşer. Roman, toplumda hep aşağılanan ve hor görülen insanların, nüfuzlu kimselerin bencilce hesapları arasında ezilişini ve sarsılışını işler. Sıradan insanların olağanüstü yaşantıları ve şaşırtıcı karakter özellikleri anlatılır.

Kevin O’Donnell is a beacon of such indomitable spirit, grappling with life’s relentless waves that seek to subdue him. In the turbulent era of mid-20th century, the world could be a harsh, unforgiving place for a young Irish lad. Yet, within Kevin lies a burning desire to carve out his niche, to transcend the barriers that life hurls his way and grasp the reins of a fulfilling existence.

Wenn das Leben dir permanent Steine in den Weg schmeißt, kannst du dann immer noch du sein? Das Leben ist ein Mosaikbild! Jede Erfahrung, jede Erinnerung, jedes Gefühl und jede Person ist ein Mosaiksteinchen. Während du lebst, wirst du immer nur die Fähigkeit haben, einen bestimmten Teil des gesamten Bildes zu betrachten. Jedoch erst ganz am Ende deiner Lebenszeit wirst du das Bild im Ganzen sehen! Und wenn mir das Schicksal, jedes Mal einen Eimer schwarze und graue Steine in mein Mosaikbild kippt, liegt es erst recht bei mir, für die bunte Farbe zu sorgen.

Il banco in legno e ottone, le alzatine colme di dolciumi e l’inconfondibile aroma di zucchero e mandorle. Quando Luisa scopre che la confetteria nel centro di Perugia è in vendita, la sente subito sua. Poco importa che il marito Annibale sia lontano, che lei sia prossima al parto e non sappia nulla di pasticceria. Imparerà. Per una ragazza che è cresciuta tra le difficoltà, non esistono ostacoli insormontabili: il nuovo secolo le ha promesso un sogno, ed è pronta ad afferrarlo. Ma neppure lei può immaginare fin dove la porterà: dal vecchio negozio nascerà la Perugina.