Philippa Gregory Audiobooks

The queen of British historical fiction turns to the uncrowned, in Normal Women

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Who is Philippa Gregory?

Philippa Gregory, born in 1954, is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987 – a career now stretching towards four decades. Her best-known book is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which won the Romantic Novelists’ Association award for Romantic Novel of the Year in 2002 and has since been adapted into two films.

Her standing is neatly captured by AudioFile magazine, which crowned her the queen of British historical fiction – the sort of title that sticks because nobody seriously disputes it. Few living novelists are so closely identified with the business of turning Britain’s past into stories people actually stay up reading.

Philippa Gregory in audiobooks

Fittingly for a writer whose crown was bestowed by an audiobook magazine, Gregory belongs in your ears. Our catalogue carries Normal Women, in which she turns her attention – as the title signals – to the women who do not usually get the crown, the portrait or the chapter to themselves.

For UK listeners the appeal is straightforward: this is British history in the hands of the novelist most trusted with it, and decades of storytelling craft travel with her whatever the subject. A safe recommendation for anyone who likes their past vivid rather than dusty.