Historical Letters

*2026 Selah Audio Finalist!!* She wants a new life. He’s in danger of losing his. Restless and ready for a change, Grace Stratton gladly accepts the opportunity to leave her remote parsonage home to serve as a wealthy spinster’s companion in the idyllic country town of Lindenfell. Its warm...

This beautifully conceived meditation on prayers and praying from beloved author and theologian C. S. Lewis was the final book he wrote. In the form of warm, relaxed letters to a close friend, C. S. Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate dialogue between man and God...

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is considered to be one of the greatest examples of true American literature. Its excellency of topic, characterization, and description has made it a permanent part of our history. Set in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s, it describes the life of Hester Prynne, a Puritan woman whose existence is marred by sin. The real genius of the book is found in its description.

LETTERS FROM GAZA is more than a book - it's a voice from the silence, a heartbeat in the wreckage. Through poetry, letters, and monologues, 30 Gazans lay bare their fears, grief, and relentless hope amid devastation.As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with hopes for...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the gray light of a seventeenth-century Boston morning, a young woman is led from the prison door onto the wooden scaffold of the marketplace. She carries an infant in her arms and wears a scarlet letter A embroidered on her breast with gold thread...

The fifth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Eloise's story.. My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never...

Evoking the spirit and hardships of small-town America during World War II, Carolyn Hart's beautifully written story follows a young reporter, Gretchen Gilman, who investigates the puzzling murder of an acquaintance. Gretchen's assignments at the local newspaper weren't very exciting, but the...

Grace is a worker in the new Industrial Revolution town, Lowell, MA. Despite only being 14 years old, she hopes to send extra money to help her poor family. To do so, she must work 12 hours a day in a factory helping machines wind thread. Learn about her life as a textile mill worker in the 1830s and the working conditions that she and her fellow workers endured in order to stay employed.

Mary Russell, assistant and protegee of the great Sherlock Holmes finds herself and her partner once more mired in mystery. When Mary is given a scrap of papyrus by an old archeologist friend, she has no inkling of what it contains. Written in Greek, it could be a letter from a previously...

When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess Amelia Amesbury, who secretly pens the popular Lady Agony column, has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a charming new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury—widow, mother, and...

Letters to America was written to energize Americans at a time of economic stress and self-doubt. By learning of the sacrifices the previous American generations–that often endured everyday hardships beyond the comprehension of those of us with running water–challenges confronting individual modern Americans pale in comparison.

Bloomsbury presents Letters from Fantastically Great Women by Kate Pankhurst read by Harriet Carmichael, Susan Momoko-Hingley, Julia Krynke, Jeannette Robinson and Stephanie Ocampo "A must-have for anybody - girl or boy, man or woman" Books for Keeps on Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the...

An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey "Brie" Paxton, the "high yellow" pampered house servant of wealthy...

From award winning author, Michelle Vernal comes the second instalment off the Isabel’s story series, inspired by her birth family's connection with the Isle of Wight - Fans of Susan Sallis, Ella Carey and Fiona Valpy will absolutely love this captivating, unique story. Veronica and Gabe met...

Uncover how profound historical speeches and revolutionary rhetoric ignited social movements and shattered empires. Perfect for your morning commute, this thought-provoking deep dive explores the raw power of language as the ultimate weapon for change. From ancient assemblies to the modern...

Thirty-seven letters were hidden behind an old hearth. They were never meant to be found. When Elowen Vey inherits an aging house in Calder Row from her late uncle, Orin, she expects dust, forgotten rooms, and the remains of a quiet life. Instead, she discovers a bundle of letters concealed...

A seven-volume collection containing some of the most fascinating journals and letters to have been written in the last two hundred and fifty years, all performed in a dramatised setting.

An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go. I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd...

An intimate three-volume collection of moving letters from the private writings of three of the most popular writers of the 19th century, presented in a dramatised setting.

A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she...