My Father’s House is a novel based on a true story (very loosely based, O’Connor emphasises in an author’s note). … More
Tag: biographical novel
Book review: The New Life by Tom Crewe
The New Life draws on real events, but freely adapts them. In late-nineteenth-century London, John Addington and Henry Ellis (based … More
Book review: In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
In a Strange Room was originally published as three travel memoirs in the Paris Review but was published as a … More
Book review: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
I didn’t know anything about John Wilkes Booth apart from the fact that he assassinated Abraham Lincoln, so Booth was … More
Book review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore
In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court … More
Book review: The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater … More