Book Rec of the Day 1/11/2007

HISTORICAL FICTION

Historical novels don’t get much better than those composed by Margaret George. Acclaimed for having taken on the British royal family in Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1997) and The Autobiography of Henry VIII (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998), George turns her fertile imagination to the Nile Delta. Her story of Cleopatra’s rise and demise is sensuous and epic. Barbara Taylor Bradford calls the book “spellbinding,” and The Washington Post says “vivid and enthralling.”

THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA: A NOVEL, by Margaret George (St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998)