The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, and The Boleyn Inheritance. A writer and broadcaster for radio and television, she lives in England. She welcomes visitors and messages at her website, www.philippagregory.com.
The book in one sentence: The historical fiction of Queen Katherine [...]

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards is the author of the short story collection The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/ Hemingway Award, and she has won both the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she is an assistant professor of English at the [...]

The Cay & Timothy of the Cay - Theodore Taylor

The books in one sentence each: Phillip Enright survives a shipwreck, stuck on a cay blind, with an old Negro and a cat, to go through a life-changing experience. The prequel-sequel describes how Timothy the Negro came to be the man he was and how Phillip regains his sight and visits the cay he has [...]