Biographical Fiction

The Square of Sevens: The Times and Sunday Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year

By Laura Shepherd-Robinson

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics)

By Joyce, James

The Gods of War

By Conn Iggulden, Iggulden, Conn

Pere Goriot

By Honore de Balzac, A. J. Krailsheimer (Emeritus Student and former Tutor in French, Emeritus Student and former Tutor in French, Christ Church, Oxford)

Crusoe's Daughter

By Jane Gardam

The Queen's Sorrow

By Suzannah Dunn

The Maid of the White Hands: The Second of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

By Rosalind Miles

False God of Rome

By Robert Fabbri

The Other Boleyn Girl

By Philippa Gregory

The Right Time

By Danielle Steel

THE QUEEN OF SUBTLETIES

By Dunn, Suzannah

The Smallest Man: the most uplifting book of the year

By Frances Quinn

The Fallen Queen

By Emily Purdy

Climbers: A Novel

By M. John Harrison, Robert Macfarlane

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

By Victoria Glendinning

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

By David Lagercrantz

Leading Men: 'A timeless and heart-breaking love story' Celeste Ng

By Christopher Castellani

Trying: the hilarious novel about what to expect when you're NOT expecting

By Emily Phillips

The Tudor Wife

By Purdy, Emily

Histories

By Sam Guglani

Diana: The Ghost Biography

By Emma Tennant, Hillary Bailey

A Private Business: A Hakim and Arnold Mystery

By Barbara Nadel

The Hand of the Sun King: The British Fantasy Award-nominated fantasy epic

By J.T. Greathouse

Last Resort: A New York Times Editor's Pick

By Andrew Lipstein

Cecily: An epic feminist retelling of the War of the Roses

By Annie Garthwaite

Still Life

By Sarah Winman

After Darke

By Rick Gekoski

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas

BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

By Karen Joy Fowler

Coffee with Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland, Simon Callow