Category: Historical Fiction
The Duchess by Danielle Steel
Narrated by Gideon Emery It has been a long time since I’ve read or listened to a Danielle Steel story. The blurb of The Duchess intrigued me though, so I thought I’d go back to try the latest from an…
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
Narrated by Alex Wyndham, Billie Fulford-Brown, Morag Sims, Gary Furlong, Derek Perkins, Greg Wagland, Antony Ferguson, Jane Copland and Mary Jane Wells Last Christmas in Paris is a beautifully written, superbly narrated epistolary novel which centres around the correspondence exchanged…
Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
Narrated by Eva Kaminsky and Alex Wyndham Having very much enjoyed listening to The Wicked City earlier this year (and being a fan of this author’s alter-ego, Juliana Gray), I was keen to listen to Beatriz Williams’ latest offering, Cocoa…
The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella
Narrated by Daniel Philpott Anthony Capella’s The Wedding Officer is an enjoyable and engrossing tale set in wartime Italy, which is told through the eyes of a fish-out-of-water young British officer and the fiery Italian widow with whom he falls…
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld When I read The Jane Austen Project a few months back, I admit that I approached it with some trepidation. Two people travelling back in time to meet Jane Austen and retrieve a previously unpublished manuscript…
A Drop of Ink by Megan Chance
Narrated by Taylor Ann Krahn and Tim Campbell In 1816, a group of five writers lived for a few months at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva. One night, during a particularly virulent storm, they sat around…
Julian Fellowes’s Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson I’m sure that most people will be familiar with the name of the writer of Gosford Park and the creator of the hugely successful Downton Abbey. In his latest novel, Julian Fellowes continues to explore England’s…
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Narrated by Fiona Hardingham I saw a favourable review of the print version of this book recently and it inspired me to request the audiobook to review here at AudioGals. The Summer Before the War is not strictly a romance….
Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye
Narrated by Susie Riddell “Reader. I murdered him.” This is one of those books that would have passed me by had not one of my fellow reviewers at All About Romance picked it up and rated it highly. Her review…