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by Mary Sharratt
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsA fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history - Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich.
by Helen Castor
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.
by Mary Sharratt
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsSkillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
by Hilary Mantel
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsThe sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
by Kimberly Cutter
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsThe girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend.
by Michelle Moran
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsLove, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history.
by David Maine
Published Nov 2007
Read ReviewsIn The Book of Samson, David Maine has created an unforgettable portrait of a man who believes he is touched by the hand of God---then instructed by that God to slaughter his enemies.
by Margaret Drabble
Published Oct 2005
Read Reviews'With her usual deftness and clarity, Drabble crosses cultures and centuries...engrossing and provocative'.
by Christopher Moore
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsThe early life of the Son of God, including the missing years as told by his childhood friend Biff. "An instant classic...terrific, funny and poignant".
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.
by Anita Diamant
Published Sep 1998
Read ReviewsIn the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. In The Red Tent Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history to create an intimate, immediate connection.
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