Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

The Blood of the Fifth Knight by E.M. Powell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223442 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223442] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Blood of the Fifth Knight Series: #2 of The Fifth Knight Author: E.M. Powell Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 1, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: England, 1176. King Henry II has imprisoned his rebellious Queen for attempting to overthrow him. But with her conspirators still at large and a failed assassination attempt on his beautiful mistress, Rosamund Clifford, the King must take action to preserve his reign. Desperate, Henry turns to the only man he trusts: a man whose skills have saved him once before. Sir Benedict Palmer answers the call, mistakenly believing that his family will remain safe while he attends to his King. As Palmer races to secure the throne for the King, neither man senses the hand of a brilliant schemer, a mystery figure loyal to Henry’s traitorous Queen who will stop at nothing to see the King defeated. The Blood of the Fifth Knight is an intricate medieval murder mystery and a worthy sequel to E.M. Powell’s acclaimed historical thriller The Fifth Knight.

The Towers of Tuscany by Carol M. Cram

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223713 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223713] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Towers of Tuscany Author: Carol M. Cram Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 16, 2014 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father’s workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son. After Sofia’s father is crushed by his own fresco during an attack motivated by a vendetta, Sofia realizes she must escape her loveless marriage. She flees to Siena, where, disguised as a boy, she paints again. When her work attracts the notice of a nobleman who discovers the woman under the dirty smock, Sofia is faced with a choice that nearly destroys her. Meticulously researched settings and compelling characters are united with a strong heroine in this rich portrait of medieval Italy. Revised edition: This edition of The Towers of Tuscany includes editorial revisions.

The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223691 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223691] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boston Girl: A Novel Author: Anita Diamant Narrator: Linda Lavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: December 9, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 16 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 2016 Audie Award Finalist for Best Female Narrator New York Times bestseller! An unforgettable novel about a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century, told “with humor and optimism…through the eyes of an irresistible heroine” (People)—from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent. Anita Diamant’s “vivid, affectionate portrait of American womanhood” (Los Angeles Times), follows the life of one woman, Addie Baum, through a period of dramatic change. Addie is The Boston Girl, the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900 to parents who were unprepared for America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End of Boston, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie’s intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can’t imagine—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, to finding the love of her life, eighty-five-year-old Addie recounts her adventures with humor and compassion for the naïve girl she once was. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Diamant’s previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world. “Diamant brings to life a piece of feminism’s forgotten history” (Good Housekeeping) in this “inspirational…page-turning portrait of immigrant life in the early twentieth century” (Booklist).

The Pale Horseman: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223694 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223694] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pale Horseman: A Novel Series: #2 of Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales) Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.79 of Total 71 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. As the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders—and he questions where his allegiance must lie. But blood is his destiny, and when the overwhelming Viking horde attacks out of a wintry darkness, Uhtred must put aside all hatred and distrust and stand beside his embattled country’s staunch defender—the fugitive King Alfred. The Pale Horseman is a gripping, monumental adventure that gives breathtaking life to one of the most important epochs in English history—yet another masterwork from New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell.

Sword Song: The Battle for London by Bernard Cornwell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223695 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223695] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sword Song: The Battle for London Series: #4 of Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales) Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 18 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Warrior by instinct and Viking by nature, Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has land, a wife and children—and a duty to King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have invaded the decayed Roman city of London with dreams of conquering Wessex... with Uhtred’s help. Suddenly forced to weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles, Uhtred—Alfred’s sharpest sword—must now make the choice that will determine England’s future.