Nelson City Council

Robert Alexander - Rasputin's daughter, Romanov bride (Grand Duchess Elisavyeta)
Tariq Ali - (the Islam series of books)
Isabel Allende - Ines of my soul (Ines Suarez, 16th century Chilean woman)
Robert Anderson - Little fugue (Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes)
Jeffrey Archer - Paths of glory (George Mallory)
Lynn N Austin - Chronicle of the Kings series (Biblical times)
Stephanie Barron - A flaw in the blood (Queen Victoria)
Vanora Bennett - Blood royal (Catherine of Valois), Figures in silk (Edward IV & Richard III)
Veronica Bennett - Angelmonster (the Shelleys, YA), Cassandra's sister (Jane Austen)
T Coraghessan Boyle - The inner circle (Dr Alfred Kinsey), The women (Frank Lloyd Wright's women friends)
Orson Scott Card - (the women of Genesis series, Biblical times)
Rita Charbonnier - Mozart's sister (Maria Anna Mozart)
Barbara Chase-Riboud - Hottentot Venus (Sarah Baartman, exploited African woman, 19th century)
Mavis Cheek - Amenable women (Anne of Cleeves)
Tracy Chevalier - Burning bright (William Blake), Girl with a pearl earring (Vermeer's model)
Mary Higgins Clark - Mount Vernon love story (George & Martha Washington)
Lewis Crofts - The pornographer of Vienna (Egon Schiele)
Marele Day - Mrs Cook : the real and imagined life of the captain's wifeChristie Dickason - The king's daughter (James I's daughter)
P C Doherty - The cup of ghosts (King Edward II), The death of the Red King (William II), Domina (Agrippina, ancient Roman  woman), The house of death (Alexander the Great), The plague lord (Kublai Khan & Marco Polo), The poison maiden (Edward II), The queen of the night (Saint Helena, Constantine I), The secret life of Elizabeth I, The year of the cobra (Tutankhamen)
Suzannah Dunn - The sixth wife (Queen Catharine Parr), The Queen's sorrow (Queen Mary I)
David Ebershoff  - The 19th wife (Ann Young, Mormon woman)
Dave Eggers - What is the what (Valentino Achak Deng, Sudanese refugee)
Elissa Elliott - Eve : a novel of the first woman
Anne Enright - The pleasure of Eliza Lynch (19th century Irish woman)
Jennifer Cody Epstein - The painter from Shanghai (Yuliang Pan)
Jill Dawson - The great lover (Rupert Brooke)
Carolly Erickson - The hidden diary of Marie Antoinette, The last wife of Henry VIII, The secret life of Josephine : Napoleon's bird of paradise, The Tsarina's daughter (Grand Duchess Tatiana)
Karen Essex - Stealing Athena (Mary Nisbet & the Elgin Marbles), Leonardo's swans (da Vinci & his models)
Marie Ferranti - The Princess of Mantua (Barbara von Brandenburg)
Margaret Forster - Diary of an ordinary woman 1914-1995, Keeping the world away (Gwen John, artist), Lady's maid (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Sophie Gee - The scandal of the season (Alexander Pope)
Newt Gingrich - Grant comes east, Never call retreat (both about Ulysses S Grant & Robert E Lee)
C W Gortner - The last queen (Juana la Loca, Queen of Castile)
Laurie Graham - Gone with the Windsors (Duke & Duchess of Windsor), The importance of being Kennedy (Kennedy family)
Chris Greenhalgh - Coco & Igor (Chanel & Stravinsky)
Philippa Gregory - The Boleyn inheritance (Henry VIII & the Boleyn family),  The constant princess (Catharine of Aragon), Earthly joys (John Tradescant & Robert Cecil), The other Boleyn girl (Mary Boleyn), The other queen (Mary, Queen of Scots), The white queen (Elizabeth, consort of Henry IV)
Sandra Gulland - Mistress of the sun (Louis XIV's mistress), Tales of passion, tales of woe (Josephine Bonaparte)
Ron Hansen - Exiles (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Amy Hassinger - The priest's madonna (Mary Magdalene)
Elizabeth Hickey - The painted kiss (Gustav Klimt)
Nancy Horan - Loving Frank (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Angela Hunt - Magdalene (Mary Madgalene)
Samantha Hunt - The invention of everything else (Nikola Telsa)
Conn Iggulden - (the Emperor series - ancient Rome), (the Conqueror series - Mongolian kings)
Margaret Irwin - Young Bess; Elizabeth, captive princess; Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (all Elizabeth I); The galliard (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Jeanne Kalogridis - Painting Mona Lisa (Lisa del Giocondo & da Vinci), The devil's queen (Catherine de Medici)
Thomas Keneally  - Schindler's list (Oskar Schindler)
Susan King - Lady Macbeth
Rebecca Kohn - Seven days to the sea : an epic novel of Exodus (Miriam)
David Lale - Last stop Salina Cruz (Arthur Cravan)
Doris Lessing - Alfred and Emily (Lessing's parents)
Maureen Lindley - The private papers of Eastern Jewel (Yoshiko Kawashima)
David Lodge - Author, author (Henry James)
Colum McCann - Dancer (Rudolf Nuyerev)
James McNeish - Lovelock (Jack Lovelock)
Valerio Massimo Manfredi - (the Alexander series - King Alexander of Macedonia)
Antoinette May - Claudia, daughter of Rome; Pilate's wife (both Claudia Procula)
Rosalind Miles - I, Elizabeth (Elizabeth I)
Anchee Min - Becoming Madame Mao (Jiang Ching), Empress Orchid (Tzu Hsi), The last empress (Empress Cixi)
Emily Mitchell - The last summer of the world (Edward Steichen)
Michelle Moran - Nefertiti (Queen of Egypt)
Jude Morgan - The taste of sorrow (Bronte family), Symphony (Hector Berlioz)
Sena Jeter Naslund - Abundance : a novel of Marie Antoinette
Anthony O'Neill - The empire of eternity (Napoleon, Queen Victoria)
Jay Parini - The last station (Leo Tolstoy)
Robert B Parker - Double play (Jackie Robinson)
Sharon Kay Penman - Devil's brood (Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Caryl Phillips - Dancing in the dark (Bert Williams)
Justine Picardie - Daphne (du Maurier)
Jean Plaidy - The shadow of the pomegranate (Catharine of Aragon)
Anne Rice - Christ the Lord : out of Egypt, Christ the Lord : the road to Cana
Kim Stanley Robinson - Galileo's dream
Laura Joh Rowland - The secret adventures of Charlotte Bronte (Bronte family)
Robert Ryan - Death on the ice (Robert Falcon Scott & Roald Amundsen)
Marcus Sedgwick - Blood red, snow white (Arthur Ransome)
Susan Sellers - Vanessa and Virginia (Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolf)
Dan Simmons - Drood (Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins)
Philip Sington - Zoia's gold (Zoia Krukovshaya)
Dava Sobel - Galileo's daughter
Alan Spence - The pure land (Thomas Blake Glover)
C K Stead - My name was Judas (Judas Iscariot), Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield)
Indu Sundaresan - The twentieth wife, The feast of roses (both about Nur Jahan & Jahangir, Emperor & Empress of Hindustan)
Reay Tannahill - The seventh son (Richard III), Fatal majesty (Mary Queen of Scots)      
Judith Tarr - Rite of conquest (William I & Queen Matilda)
Bodie Thoene - (the AD chronicles - Biblical times)
Iliya Troyanov - The collector of worlds (William Francis Burton)
Alison Weir - Innocent traitor (Lady Jane Grey), The Lady Elizabeth  (Elizabeth I & Henry VIII)
Deborah Weisgall - The world before her (George Eliot)
Marianne Wiggins - The shadow catcher (Edward S Curtis)