Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction

The Importance of Being Kennedy

A brilliant new novel by Laurie Graham set in wartime London, which follows Kick Kennedy, sister of future US President JFK, as she takes London society by storm.

The Naqib’s Daughter

A passionate tale, woven from personal stories of heroic betrayal and love, The Naqib’s Daughter is based on historical characters, and set during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt.

Chicago

Sex, money, and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa Al Aswany.

Half of a Yellow Sun

**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!**

THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

Brixton Bwoy

An autobiographical novel about a young Jamaican boy who comes to live in England and is sucked into a life of crime he can’t escape.

Joseph Knight

‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’Daily Telegraph

Duet

Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.

Mary Swann

‘One of the best novels I have read this year. It’s deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.’ Margaret Atwood

Learning to Talk: Short stories

A companion piece to the captivating memoir Giving Up the Ghost by the Man Booker-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Uncle Rudolf

The haunting new novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.

The Hours

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.

The Biography of Thomas Lang

An epistolary novel about a concert pianist and a young man’s attempt to write his biography.

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