Biographical fiction

This classic romance novel tells the true story of a love affair that changed history - that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The story features knights fighting in battle and serfs struggling in poverty.

In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by scandal as renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, ran off with Mamah Cheney, a client's wife. For the rest of her life Mamah paid an extraordinary price for moving outside society's rules, in a time that was unforgiving of a woman's quest f...

In the early 1900s polite Chicago society was rocked by scandal as renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, ran off with Mamah Cheney, a client's wife. For the rest of her life Mamah paid an extraordinary price for moving outside society's rules.

C.K. Stead's fictionalized account of Katherine Mansfield's life describes her search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. The author sticks scrupulously to what is known about her whilst taking the reader beyond mere biography and on into her mind, emotions and sensibilities.

Mary Anne knew the grinding heel of poverty, and determined it would never grind her again. With beauty, brains and ambition, she chose the only route that could take a cockney girl to the top - as mistress to the Royal Duke of York.

'The Master' is a portrait of a man who was elusive to both friends and family even as he remained astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art - a searching exploration of the mind before affairs of the heart.

'The Master' is a portrait of a man who was elusive to both friends and family even as he remained astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art - a searching exploration of the mind before affairs of the heart.

'The Master' is a portrait of a man who was elusive to both friends and family even as he remained astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art - a searching exploration of the mind before affairs of the heart.

Towards the end of the 18th century, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician and physicist, Carl Friedrich Gauss, set out to measure the world. This novel brings the two eccentric geniuses to life.

Towards the end of the 18th century, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt and mathematician and physicist, Carl Friedrich Gauss, set out to measure the world. This novel brings the two eccentric geniuses to life.