Historical Fiction
Castle Rackrent
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Maria Edgeworth
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by M…
Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Otis
James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of …
A Knight of the White Cross
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G. A. Henty
Adventure, pirates, a young orphan finds a place with a legendary order of knights. Fighting on sea and land to defend his people from barba…
The White Peacock
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D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsal…
Elsie's Children
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Martha Finley
This book continues the delightful "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow u…
Robin Hood
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Paul Creswick
"Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?" Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, …
Rescue Dog of the High Pass
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Jim Kjelgaard
Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travel…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 2: Twenty Years After (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
Volume 2 of The d'Artagnan Romances begins twenty years after "The Three Musketeers." Since then, d'Artagnan's career has stagnate…
The Prime Minister
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Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…
The Empty Sack
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Basil King
The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his …
The Prussian Officer
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D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
Phineas Redux
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Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas…
The Patrician
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John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Bladys of the Stewponey
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Sabine Baring-Gould
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other wel…
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
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Charles Watts Whistler
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…
Barnaby Rudge
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Charles Dickens
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…
On the Eve
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Ivan Turgenev
On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of t…
The Texan Star
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Joseph A. Altsheler
This is the first story in the Texan series by Joseph Altsheler. The Texan Star outlines the great Texan struggle for freedom, following the…
Diana Tempest
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Mary Cholmondeley
Colonel Tempest, his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, …
Notwithstanding
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Mary Cholmondeley
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a …