Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: The Painted Cage

Author: Meira Chand

Narrator: Jane Collingwood

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Release date: August 18, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Based on a true story, Meira Chand's The Painted Cage explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality. In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of 5 January 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged with the murder of her husband Reggie, ex-secretary of the Yokohama United Club. Marriage had transported Amy – an heiress 15 years her husband's junior – from the green fields of Somerset, and along the way she discovered disturbing truths about Reggie: his mistress and secret child, his addiction to arsenic. In colonial Yokohama the couple began to lead separate lives, with fatal consequences. 'The scope of this novel and ... its various beautiful images of imprisonment make the book its author's most substantial achievement.' —Times Literary Supplement 'Meira Chand writes with great power.' —Women's Review © 2018 by Meira Chand. Published in paper format in Singapore by Marshall Cavendish International Asia, recorded by Storyside 2020.

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Title: Melting Moments

Author: Anna Goldsworthy

Narrator: Olivia Beardsley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. With an eyebrow pencil in one hand and gardening shears in the other, Ruby navigates the years doing her duty as a woman, contending with her damaged husband and eccentric in-laws, allowing marriage and motherhood to fill her with purpose and pleasure - and only occasionally wondering, is this all there is? MELTING MOMENTS recreates the Adelaide and Melbourne of half a century ago, bringing a family to life as they move through the decades, challenging and caring for and loving one another, often in surprising ways.

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Title: The Philosopher's Daughters

Author: Alison Booth

Narrator: Rose Robinson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Release date: July 1, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London, 1891: Harriet Cameron and her beloved sister Sarah have been brought up by their father, radical thinker James Cameron. But when adventurer Henry Vincent arrives on the scene, the sisters' lives are changed forever. Sarah, the beauty of the family, marries Henry and embarks on a voyage to Australia. Harriet, intensely missing Sarah, must decide whether to help her father with his life's work or to devote herself to painting. When James dies unexpectedly, Harriet follows Sarah to Australia, and afterwards into the outback, where she is alienated by the casual violence and great injustices of life there. Her rejuvenation begins with her friendship with an Aboriginal stockman and her growing love for the landscape. But this fragile happiness is soon threatened by murders at a nearby cattle station and a menacing station hand who is seeking revenge.

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Title: [Spanish] - Las diecinueve enaguas

Author: César Mackenzie

Narrator: Felipe Arévalo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: June 30, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Al interior de una casona de la fría y conversadora Bogotá de finales del siglo XIX, se desarrolla una historia familiar compleja y oscura. Cada miembro de la familia sabe algo y guarda un secreto, lo que conoce es aterrador pero lo que oculta es inimaginable. La trama de esta novela aborda al lector como un confidente y este queda obligado a desenmarañar el misterio que cubre a los personajes y a la ciudad misma, que aparece en una nítida pero no feliz imagen histórica. La estructura y la maestría con la que César Mackenzie construye el mundo de 'Las diecinueve enaguas' dejan claro que es una obra arriesgada y precisa, una de las más destacadas piezas de la literatura colombiana contemporánea.

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Title: Where Dragonflies Hover

Author: Annemarie Brear

Narrator: Emma Powell, Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2020

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Everyone thinks Lexi is crazy when she falls in love with Hollingsworth House, a crumbling old Georgian mansion in Yorkshire – and nobody more so than her husband, Dylan. But there's something very special about the place, and Lexi can sense it. Whilst exploring the grounds, she stumbles across an old diary, and within its pages she meets Allie, an Australian nurse who worked in France during the First World War. Lexi finally realises her dream of buying Hollingsworth, but her obsession with the house leaves her marriage in tatters. In the lonely nights that follow, Allie's diary becomes Lexi's companion, comforting her in moments of darkness and pain. As she reads, the nurse's scandalous connection to her beloved house is revealed, and Lexi realises that sometimes a glimpse of the past can help make sense of the future…

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Title: As the Heart Bones Break

Author: Audrey Chin

Narrator: Claire Marie Minh-Khe Hua

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Release date: December 11, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Thong Tran's Vietnam, everyone is at war and no one is who they seem. But even a conflicted heart needs a home. Yearning for a true father and a cause to give himself to, Thong chooses independence, liberty and happiness — his tutor and the Viet Cong. It is a choice with karmic consequences he will spend the next half-century criss-crossing the Pacific to outrun. Can Thong set down the bones rankling in his heart? And at what cost? © 2013 by Audrey Chin. Published in paper format in Singapore by Marshall Cavendish International Asia, recorded by Storyside 2019.

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Title: The Black Earth

Author: Philip Kazan

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1922. When the Turkish Army occupies Smyrna, Zoë Haggitiris escapes with her family, only to lose everything. Alone in a sea of desperate strangers, her life is touched, for a moment, by a young English boy, Tom Collyer, also lost, before the compassion of a stranger leads her into a new life. Years later when war breaks out, Tom finds himself in Greece and in the chaos of the British retreat, fate will lead him back to Zoë. But he will discover that the war will not end so easily for either of them.

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Title: [Spanish] - Prohibido salir a la calle

Author: Consuelo Triviño

Narrator: Dolly Bernal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Prohibido salir a la calle es una novela que sorprende no solo por la forma como aborda la infancia desde el punto de vista de una niña, sino por la fina filigrana que despliega el tejido de voces familiares que nos presenta y que dan entidad a los personajes. Considerada por la crítica como una de las mejores novelas de los últimos veinticinco años en Colombia, la obra mantiene intacta su vigencia, instalando el modesto hogar del que parte en la cartografía universal de los afectos. Situada en la ciudad de Bogotá, al final de la década de los sesenta y principios de los setenta, lo que verdaderamente sucede es el tránsito del mundo encantado de la infancia al áspero de los adultos. Cada palabra, cada frase, se carga de una profunda emoción contenida que mantiene la tensión del relato y que pese a la dureza de algunas situaciones, le ofrece al lector la posibilidad de recuperar ese paraíso perdido que explica lo que somos y al que convendría regresar. Memoria de una época de cambios debidos a la expansión de las ciudades y a un nuevo estilo de vida, la obra también da cuenta del fenómeno urbano y del impacto que produjo en las gentes la fractura social entre el pasado y el presente.

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Title: [Spanish] - Galería de piratas y bandidos de América

Author: Gonzalo España Arenas

Narrator: Adrián Wowczuk

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Release date: October 2, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Apasionantes relatos de piratas, bandidos, y bandoleros inspirados en personajes de los últimos quinientos años de historia de América. Piratas cuyo escenario es el mar en la época de la Colonia, bandidos y bandoleros cuyas andanzas tenían lugar en selvas, montañas, desiertos y veredas en tiempos de la República. Estas historias del novelista e historiador colombiano Gonzalo España obtuvieron la distinción mundial de ser parte de la lista de honor IBBY (International Board Book for Young people) en 1994.

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Title: Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms

Author: Anita Heiss

Narrator: Kathryn Hartman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2019

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

August, 1944: Over a thousand Japanese soldiers attempt to break out of a prisoner of war compound near Cowra. In the carnage, hundreds are killed, many are recaptured and imprisoned, and some take their own lives rather than suffer the humiliation of ongoing defeat. But one soldier, Hiroshi, determined to avoid either fate, manages to escape… At nearby Erambie Aboriginal mission, Banjo Williams, father of nine and proud man of his community, discovers a distraught Hiroshi, pleading for help. The people of Erambie have seen enough death and heartache, so Banjo and the Erambie community decide to offer Hiroshi refuge. Mary, Banjo's daughter, is intrigued by the Japanese stranger, and is charged with his care. Love blossoms between them, and they each dream of a future together. But how long can Hiroshi be hidden safely and their bond kept secret?