10 must-read biography books like Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald by Flora Fraser

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Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

By: Flora Fraser

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to…

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1. The Cleaner (John Milton, #1)

By: Mark Dawson

3.80

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet John MiltonHe considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder.Milton is the man… read more

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2. When We Were Bad

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"'The Rubin family, everybody agrees, seems doomed to happiness'" Claudia Rubin is in her heyday… read more

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3. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

4. Madame de Pompadour

By: Nancy Mitford , Amanda Foreman

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affecti… read more

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5. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • scotland
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6. The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)

By: Mimi Matthews

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fortune favors the bold—but is a confirmed spinster daring enough to loosen the reins and accept a … read more

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"I told you in York,"

-Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)

"Crucibles burn away the dross... Sometimes, I fancy that’s what has happened to me."

-Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)

"His words faded to a whisper as he brushed his knuckles along the curve of her cheek. "I told you in York," he said. "It isn't over."

-Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)

"Anne laughed... Her face was awash with color. Hart desperately wanted to kiss her again. Who was he fooling? He wanted to lock himself in a room with her for a month."

-Mimi Matthews, The Lily of Ludgate Hill (Belles of London, #3)

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7. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

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  • scotland
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9. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.38

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more

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10. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

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  • european history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. Blood, Fire and Gold

By: Estelle Paranque

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biogr… read more

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  • european history
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Noor

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thou… read more

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13. Music in the Dark

By: Sally Magnusson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more

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  • scotland
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14. Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under

By: Sam Heughan

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

With a forward by Sir Peter Jackson.  Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforget… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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17. Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

By: Greg Jenner

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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18. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • scotland
Cover of A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago

20. A Net for Small Fishes

By: Lucy Jago

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Frances Howard, unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two str… read more

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"Murder and marriage is not a happy mix."

-Lucy Jago, A Net for Small Fishes

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21. Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

By: Bettany Hughes

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning hist… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

22. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

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23. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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24. No Season but the Summer

By: Matilda Leyser

3.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me? … read more

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"His changing was brutal, not a shifting and a merging, but a murdering of one form to make way for the other."

-Matilda Leyser, No Season but the Summer

"And suddenly, it seems imperative that I remember it right. I must understand what happened nine thousand years ago, when I went underground. The myths have grown over the memories like thickened ski…"

-Matilda Leyser, No Season but the Summer

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25. Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

By: Flora Fraser

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • scotland
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26. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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27. Wife

By: Charlotte Mendelson

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passi… read more

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28. I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

By: Miranda Hart

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You. I know – what an intriguing title! Basically, I have ha… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 by Virginia Nicholson

29. All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960

By: Virginia Nicholson

4.05

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.21

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4.10

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Douglas Skelton

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