Historical Fiction

Minnie's Sacrifice

Read by Jim Locke


Frances E. W. Harper


Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

The Forest Lovers

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…

Peveril of the Peak

Read by Deon Gines


Sir Walter Scott


Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. P…

The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier

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Baroness Emma Orczy


Sequel to The Laughing Cavalier, The First Sir Percy picks up the cavalier’s story three months later. The second novel in Baroness Orczy’s …

A Cathedral Singer

Read by David Wales


James Lane Allen


New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…

''Mr Rowl''

Read by Elin


D. K. Broster


Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where h…

Agincourt: A Romance

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …

Idols

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna…

Cherry and Violet

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Anne Manning


A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, …

The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…

Virgin Soil Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker


Ivan Turgenev


The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the …

A Study in Shadows

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…

The Freelands

Read by Simon Evers


John Galsworthy


The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…

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