Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
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- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic we’re invited to pick a genre and build a list around it. My favourite genre being historical fiction, I’ve picked Historical Fiction Featuring Real Historical Figures. Links from the title will take you to my review.
- Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid – Gruoch, the real Lady Macbeth
- The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay by Flora Johnston – pioneering female aviator, Elsie Mackay,
- Precipice by Robert Harris – Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and socialite Venetia Stanley
- The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – violinist Anna Maria della Pietà and composer Antonio Vivaldi
- The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
- Agricola: Invader by Simon Turney – Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola
- Diva by Daisy Goodwin – opera singer Maria Callas
- A Tapestry of Treason by Anne O’Brien – Constance of York, Lady Despenser
- The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng – author W. Somerset Maugham
- The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry – author,Thomas Hardy
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