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A Novel of Marie Antoinette
by Sena Jeter Naslund
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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 Women of Chateau Lafayette
by Stephanie Dray
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsAn epic saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy.
by Martine Bailey
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsInspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction.
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 Margaret Drabble
Published Oct 2005
Read Reviews'With her usual deftness and clarity, Drabble crosses cultures and centuries...engrossing and provocative'.
by Robert Whitaker
Published Dec 2004
Read ReviewsWhitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Never before told, The Mapmaker's Wife is an epic love story that unfolds against the backdrop of a great 18th century true adventure.
by Chantal Thomas
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsWith the skill of a consummate storyteller, Chantal Thomas meticulously re-creates the miniature universe of Versailles, brilliantly juxtaposing its beauty and its dawn-to-dusk ritual with the chaos that erupts.
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.
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