Books like The Other Boleyn Girl
At fourteen, Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII and is pushed by her ambitious family into becoming his mistress, until her sister Anne sets her sights on the king and the crown itself.
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Wolf Hall
Thomas Cromwell rises from blacksmith's son to Henry VIII's most powerful adviser, navigating the king's desire for a new wife and the reshaping of England.
Katherine
Katherine de Roet, a convent-raised orphan of fifteen, comes to the court of Edward III in 1366 and catches the eye of his son John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, on the eve of her arranged marriage to a knight.
The Henna Artist
In Jaipur in 1955, Lakshmi Shastri, who fled an abusive marriage at seventeen, has made herself the most sought-after henna artist among the city's wealthy women, until a younger sister she never knew she had turns up at her door.
Imperial Woman
The rise of Tzu Hsi, a beautiful young girl chosen as a concubine for the Emperor of China in 1852, who will become the Empress Dowager and rule the dynasty for half a century.
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Kyoto fisherman's daughter sold into the Gion geisha houses in 1929 narrates the long apprenticeship and the long war that together teach her what a woman of the flower-and-willow world is for.
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary family in the Belgian Congo watches their faith, their marriage, and their idea of Africa unravel in the jungle.
Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
Next Year in Havana
In 2017 Marisol Ferrera travels from Miami to Cuba to scatter the ashes of her grandmother Elisa, who in 1958, as a sugar baron's daughter in Havana, fell in love with a young revolutionary.
The Christie Affair
Nan O'Dea, the mistress of Archie Christie, tells her story of the eleven days in December 1926 when his wife, Agatha Christie, disappeared.
In the Time of the Butterflies
The four Mirabal sisters grow up in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, and three of them become the Butterflies, leaders of the underground resistance.
Fall of Giants
On the day of George V's coronation in 1911, thirteen-year-old Billy Williams goes down a Welsh coal mine for the first time, and his family's story winds with those of an English earl, a German diplomat, two Russian brothers and an American idealist through the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Northern Spy
Tessa, a BBC producer in Belfast on maternity leave, watches the news of an IRA robbery and sees her sister Marian on screen, pulling on a balaclava.