Biographical fiction

This novel tells the dramatic story of Hild of Northumbria - considered one of Britain's greatest women - and of her conversion to Christianity and subsequent founding of a new abbey at Whitby.

This is a novel of secrets, of hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities - biggest and most dangerous of them all, the truth about the new King's relationship with a married woman, and the silent horror that few in Britain dare voice: the increasing inevitabilit...

This is a novel of secrets, of hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities - biggest and most dangerous of them all, the truth about the new King's relationship with a married woman, and the silent horror that few in Britain dare voice: the increasing inevitabilit...

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's 'Adeline' reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its prota...

On 18 April 1941, 22 days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's 'Adeline' reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist.

Here is the incredible story of the slave who became a Japanese samurai. In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kinchotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. Also aboard is an East African slave. Taken from his village as a boy, sold to mercenaries and forced to fight in ...

They say behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann, her closest friend. When Edith falls in love with a dashing younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it threatens everything certain in her life, especially h...

One cool day in 1929, Lee Miller arrives in bohemian Paris to pursue her dream of being an artist, having left behind a successful modelling career at Vogue. Gorgeous and talented, she catches the eye of renowned Surrealist artist Man Ray and convinces him to hire her as his assistant. Man is an ...

'Agüero' is the tale of the boy who would go on to re-write football history forever. His dramatic 94th minute goal on the final day of the 2011/12 season, to snatch the title from under rivals Manchester United's noses, was the most electric moment in Premier League history. This is how the sma...

Trent Alexander-Arnold is Livepool FC's wonder kid, already promising big things despite the fact he was only born in 1998. He got his big break in an unusual way when his name was drawn from a hat to attend a camp with Liverpool FC and he's been there ever since. He's made an impact at moments t...