Historical Fiction

One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....

1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents....

In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride....

One of the greatest fighter pilots of the Great War, Michael Courtney is saved by the French noblewoman Centaine de Thiry when he crashes near her home....

Once an Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale....

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

The second novel in Wilbur Smith's The Courtneys series, The Sound of Thunder is a powerful story of family tragedy set against the backdrop of the ravages of the Second Boer War....

Ikey Solomon's favorite saying is also his way of doing business....

It is the 1870s, and twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney are born into the wilds of Natal. They could not be more different, and fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart....

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....

Rebecca Waterhouse is just thirteen when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see....

Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only 16 when she is first brutalized by the police. Her fear of the White man leads her to join the Black resistance movement....

Centaine de Thiry Courtney has not only survived but thrived. A successful woman with two sons of her own: Shasa Courtney, the Courtney heir, and Manfred de la Rey, Shasa's half brother, her secret child raised solely by his father....

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

Before the Swallows Come Back is a story of love, found family, and redemption that will break your heart and have it soaring time and time again as you sit on the edge of your seat desperately hoping.

In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family....

New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal.

Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change....

Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa....

From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the government. A Sparrow Falls is the thrilling third novel in the Courtney series, continuing from When the Lion Feeds and The Sound of Thunder....

They leave as brothers. They must return as men. Famed sailor Hal Courtney is now a man of land and family. But when the King orders him to sail to Madagascar, he must travel with his three younger sons on a journey that will shape the young men forever....

When Abby Proctor is kidnapped from a train in the middle of the desert halfway to her new life in California, she makes a promise to herself—she will escape. Because there's a reason Abby is leaving Iowa and all its oppressions behind, and she refuses to be someone's prisoner again. Especially when that someone is the infamous female outlaw Joey "JT London" Taylor, Abby's brash, brooding, and inconveniently beautiful captor.

New York, 1942: Avery is engaged to be married. Longing for adventure instead, she jumps at an unexpected offer to trade her library job for undercover intelligence-gathering in Portugal. But her new life in Lisbon, known as the Capital of Espionage, challenges everything she thought she knew about herself.

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades. With a child on the way, their new beginning promises only blessings. But in this austere Puritan community, comely faces hide malicious intent. Wrong moves or words are met with suspicion, and Margaret’s bold and unguarded nature draws scorn. Soon, Margaret is mistrusted as more cunning woman than kind caregiver.

When poverty strikes, an ageing farmer is forced to make a heartbreaking choice: relinquish his oldest son in the hope of appeasing the gods or see his family face certain starvation. And so it follows that young Lucius Ulpia Porcianus is sacrificed to Rome. Embarking on his new life, Lucius travels to Ancona to enlist in the legion. Accepted into the army of Pompey, the young recruit soon finds himself engulfed in the civil war between Sulla and the Marians. As a callow youth, torn from the land of Picenum, can Lucius put his days as a pig farmer behind him and embrace life as a legionary?

Elizabeth Bennet was informed by an unimpeachable source—on her sister Jane’s wedding day—that Mr Darcy has committed a breach of gentlemanly honour so sordid, so unforgivable, that it makes Mr Wickham’s ruthless accusations seem innocuous. Fortunately, she never has to see him again… or so she thinks. Just before proposing marriage to Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy discovers shocking news that causes him to leave her, and everyone else in Hertfordshire, behind him forever. Elizabeth in particularly he hopes he never has to see again.

Efter sin fars tragiske død bliver Kate Malvern inviteret til at flytte ind på godset Staplewood af sin fornemme og skrappe tante, Lady Minerva Broome. Her møder Kate sin smukke, men også til tider dæmoniske, fætter Torquil. Minerva styrer slagets gang på Staplewood med hård hånd. Der er langt mellem de få gæster, der besøger godset, og selv familiemiddagene er stive og formelle. Alene og isoleret på det store gods har Kate ingen at betro sig til, og den eneste faste gæst, Torquils fætter Philip, bryder sig tilsyneladende ikke sig om hende.

Abigail Wendover er en velbegavet og smuk ung kvinde, der vælter sig i beundrere, som hun imidlertid ikke interesserer sig synderligt meget for. Helt anderledes står det til med Abigails unge niece Fanny, der naiv og uskyldig, som hun er, forelsker sig i lykkejægeren Stacy Calverleigh, som ikke har nogen skrupler med at udnytte den unge pige. Abigail forsøger at overbevise Fanny om, at Stacy ikke er den, hun tror, men den unge pige vil ikke tro hende.

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, der i London er kendt som Legenden – blandt andet på grund af sine store sportspræstationer og gode manerer – skal til Yorkshire for at se på en ejendom, han har arvet. Den rige og filantropiske Sir Waldo har planer om at istandsætte det store hus og lave det om til børnehjem. Mens han er der, møder han den smukke og temperamentsfulde, men også egoistiske, adelsfrøken Tiffany Wield, og hendes langt mere elegante, unge guvernante Ancilla Trent.

Den engelske adelsmand og hertug af Avon, lord Justin Alastair, er berygtet for sit kolde væsen og sin udsvævende livsstil. En sen aften i Paris, støder han på den unge mand, Léon Bonnard , hvis iøjnefaldende røde hår, dybblå øjne og sorte øjenbryn har en slående lighed med Alastairs ærkefjende, comte de Saint-Vire. Alastair tager drengen under sine vinger og gør ham til sin page. Hans første anelse om Léon viser sig at holde stik, da han erfarer, at Léon i virkeligheden er pigen Léonie ! Léonie bliver en del af Alastairs familie, og hans følelser for den unge pige bliver stadig varmere.

Ein zauberhaftes, zweihundert Jahre altes Chateau, einsam in einem Wald Neuenglands gelegen, bietet Charles Waterston den Frieden, den er nach seiner gescheiterten Ehe sucht. Fasziniert vertieft sich Charles in die Lebens- und Liebesgeschichte von Sarah Ferguson und dem französischen Adligen Francois de Pellerin.

Travancore, côte de Malabar, 1900. Une fillette monte à bord d'un bateau qui la conduit à la cérémonie de son mariage. Son futur époux est un bon parti, mais elle découvre bientôt que sa famille est frappée d'une étrange malédiction : à chaque nouvelle génération, au moins une personne meurt noyée—ironie du sort particulièrement cruelle dans cette région du Kerala où l'eau est omniprésente, modelant la terre en un entrelacs de lagons et de lacs, accompagnant les existences de son chant feutré, reliant toute chose dans le temps et dans l'espace.

Felicity is the daughter of Henry and Beth Bennet, and for his own reasons, her father decides to arrange a marriage for his daughter, who is seventeen, to the son of Augustus Collins, Clem. His reasoning is that he is not confident his son Thomas will ever marry, and if he does, he doubts the son's ability to produce a son. Given the entail to heirs male on Longbourn and that if there is no son of Bennet blood, the Collins line will inherit, Henry sees this as the only way to secure the future of Longbourn after he is called home to God.

Det kommer bag på alle, da det viser sig, at den afdøde jarl af Spenborough har gjort Ivo Barrasford, markis af Rotherham, til værge for sin unge datter, lady Serena Carlow. Serena og Rotherham har tidligere været forlovede, men Serena ophævede forbindelsen. Nu har Rotherham råderet over Serenas formue samt ret til at bestemme om og med hvem, hun må gifte sig.

Da Arabella – en relativt fattig pige fra den engelske landadel – er på vej mod London i foråret 1817, går hendes vogn i stykker og hun må gøre holdt hos den velhavende ungkarl Mr. Beaumaris, som er en af de rigeste mænd i England. Det udvikler sig snart til et forhold fuldt af morsomme forviklinger og en god portion hjertekvaler, da den uskyldige flirt bliver til den helt store forelskelse.

Miss Eleanor Clairbridge, at five and twenty, has resigned herself to a life without love. With her family's London townhouse threatened by dwindling finances, she accepts employment as a governess to help support her widowed mother and preserve her cherished childhood home. When Eleanor arrives at Ivy Grange Estate, the last thing she expects to find is a spark of attraction between her and her new employer. Determined not to risk her position, she resolves to keeps her distance. There is more than one reason a romance between them can never be.

Omkring år 900 i et England, der består af nogle mindre kongedømmer og er på randen af kaos, får Uhtred en hovedrolle i et kompliceret magtspil. Kong Alfred af Wessex ligger for døden, hvilket truer freden, for mens Alfred ønsker at se sin søn Edward som ny konge, mener andre, at de er retmæssig arving til tronen. Uhtreds loyalitet er rettet mod Alfred, ikke hans søn, og på trods af sin årelange troskab kæmper han stadig ikke saksernes sag. Hans eget ønske er at generobre sine tabte landområder og slottet mod nord.

Vi er nået til år 878, hvor romanens hovedperson Uhtred, der er sakser af fødsel, men opfostret af danske vikinger, har begivet sig mod de nordliggende kongeriger i England for at vinde sin barndoms borg og titel tilbage – og for at bekæmpe sine to barndomsfjender Kjartan den Grusomme og Sven den Enøjede. Uhtred forelsker sig glødende i Guthreds søster Gisela, men Guthred fører sin ven bag lyset og sælger Uhtred til trældom til gengæld for en fredsalliance med Uhtreds onkel Ælfric.

July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving, invincible cavalry of Genghis Khan has smashed the proud, steel-clad knights of Russia, Poland and Hungary – and now Austria lies directly in their path. At a skirmish outside the walls of Vienna, German knights capture a squad of Mongol scouts, and are astonished to discover one of their number is an Englishman – a Templar knight – who has been riding with these Devil’s horsemen for more than 20 years.

Anthony Patch, a young yet unambitious graduate from Harvard University, moves to New York and soon meets fellow socialite and flapper, Gloria Gilbert. Infatuated by her beauty, Anthony soon proposes to Gloria, and the pair embark on a doomed whirlwind romance. Their marriage is combative and tense; Anthony expects Gloria to be more domesticated while Gloria expects Anthony to fund her extravagant lifestyle.

After being raised in a children’s asylum, Josie Smith ends up on the streets and quickly learns how to take care of herself. Her singing voice draws crowds on every corner, and she’ll stop at nothing to become famous and travel the world, loved and adored by all. Maybe then she won’t think about the family who gave her away as an infant.

Elizabeth den Første krones i 1558 og følges tæt af sin barndomsven og tilbeder Sir Robert Dudley. Mens hans søger magten ved hoffet, lever hans hustru en trist og forsømt tilværelse, og dronningens nærmeste begynder at se skævt til ham.

Investigating a disappearance in Eilean Donan Castle, Oxford police detective James Murray is transported through time to 1310…and trapped in a dark room. James is grateful when angelic blonde Catrìona Mackenzie hears his calls for help. When the laird is poisoned, they join forces to catch a killer. Catrìona is destined for the nunnery. And James needs to return to the twenty-first century. But he can't leave his medieval angel unprotected.

During a month-long house party, both must do the impossible: sinful Lucien must remain celibate and wallflower Chastity must secure a marriage proposal. When every eligible bachelor begins to compete for made-over Chastity, Lucien burns to claim her as his own. As summer storm traps them, no vow of friendship can hold him back from breaking every rule to possess her.

2019: Lucy erwacht aus einem Albtraum und findet ihre Hände an der Kehle ihres Ex. Entsetzt flieht sie zu ihrer Schwester Jess an die australische Küste, doch diese ist verschwunden. 1999: Jess ist eine einsame Sechzehnjährige in einer ländlichen Stadt in der Mitte des Kontinents. 1800: Die Zwillingsschwestern Mary und Eliza wurden von ihrem Vater in Irland getrennt und nach Australien verbannt.

It’s 1963, two years since Barbara Feldman’s husband died. Raising two kids, she’s finally emerging from her cocoon of grief. Not yet a butterfly, but she’s anxious to spread her wings. Then one day her mother-in-law, Ruth, shows up on her doorstep with five suitcases, expecting a room of her own with a suitable mattress. Abrasive and stuck in her ways yet well meaning, Mother Ruth arrives without warning to help with the children. How can Barbara say no to a woman who is not only a widow herself but also a grieving mother?