Summary | Excerpt | Reviews | Read-Alikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio

If you liked Farewell, My Queen, try these:
by Diana Giovinazzo
Published Nov 2022
Read ReviewsAs Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch - Antoinette's dearly beloved sister, Charlotte - was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the revolutionaries who would take her life. Little did Charlotte know, however, that her sister's execution would ...
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
by Antonia Hodgson
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsIn a new Georgianera mystery by Antonia Hodgson, the follow-up to The Devil in the Marshalsea, Tom Hawkins prays for a royal pardon as he relives the espionage, underground dealings, and murder accusations that sent him to the gallows.
by Michelle Moran
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsThe world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.
by Philippa Gregory
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsGregory vividly brings Henry VIII's court, with its intense intrigues, politics, and passions, to life though the lives, and deaths, of his fourth, fifth and sixth wives.
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsFrom the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, Naslund brings the 18th Century, and Marie Antoinette, vividly to life.
In The Company of the Courtesan
by Sarah Dunant
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship that paints a portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, Renaissance Venice, at its most potent moment in history.
by Lily Tuck
Published Dec 2004
Read ReviewsCaptures the devastating havoc wrought on both a country's fate and a woman's heart by ruthless ambition and war.
by Antonia Fraser
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsBrilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsThe winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people ...
Click Here to find out who said this, as well as discovering other famous literary quotes!
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.