Rosalind Tate Audiobooks

It began with a question Rosalind Tate could not put down. In 2016 she found herself wondering how a thoroughly modern young woman would actually cope in a grand English house a century earlier, with its rules, its servants and its assumptions about what girls were for. Four years later the answer arrived as Stranded, and the Shorten Chronicles were under way.

Tate lives in Gloucestershire and holidays on the Cornish coast. Before writing she served in the British military, then worked as a journalist and later as a lawyer, three careers that between them explain a good deal about the books: the procedural precision, the interest in evidence, and a heroine who reasons her way out of trouble rather than waiting to be rescued.

The series is now complete at six novels plus companion novellas. It sits somewhere between historical romance, portal fantasy and mystery, and it has built a devoted following among readers who want their escapism properly researched.

The tidiest way in is The Shorten Chronicles: Books 1-3, the boxset that gathers the opening movement of the story and is comfortably the most reviewed Tate title we hold. Sophie Arundel and her dog Charlotte are stranded in 1925 England, in a grand house governed by rules Sophie has no intention of obeying, with only a hidden portal and an infuriating fellow student named Hugo standing between her and home.

Books 4-6 completes the arc, and both collections are read by Katy Sobey, whose Sophie is quick, dry and never arch. Individual volumes such as Stranded appear on the site as they arrive, so check back if you would prefer to work through the series volume by volume.

Thirty hours of it and you will not notice the time going. Explore the audiobooks below.