Historical Fiction
The Street Called Straight
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
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, …
In Old Plantation Days
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
Hooge Troeven
Read by Marcel Coenders
Louis Couperus
Het derde en laatste deel van de koningsromans van Louis Couperus voorgelezen ter gelegenheid van de kroning van Koning Willem-Alexander en …
At the Gate of Samaria
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The novel is set in the 1890’s. Clytie Davenant is a headstrong young woman who escapes from the stultifying country life of her family to m…
The Danvers Jewels
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from Ind…
Marie Antoinette and Her Son
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Luise Mühlbach
Marie Antoinette lives a happy life in a glittering court as Queen of France, but that soon changes as the revolution begins. Her son is Lo…
The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925: A Forecast Written in the Year 1763
Read by DrPGould
Samuel Madden, Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
Imagine a world in which there were no major revolutionary upheavals (the American, French and Russian revolutions did not occur), there was…
Flemington (version 2)
Read by Elin
Violet Jacob
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Desp…
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
Read by Jim Locke
Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…
The Coryston Family
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Coryston has inherited her husband’s estate but surprisingly has not left it on her death to Coryston (known as Corry) her oldest son. …