Audiobook recommendations wanted

[HeiressofBickworth]

21. I drive to California every September

One audiobook I recall that made an impression on me was The Last Queen of Castile by C. W. Gortner. It was the story of Queen Juana of Castile who was declared mad by her son and locked away for a long time. Her parents were Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain -- the ones who funded Christopher Columbus. It's an interesting story of palace intrigue and misunderstood feminism. Anyway, I really liked it.

Also, The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell, "Uhtred is an English boy of 9th century Northumbria, orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is bound up with King Alfred, who rules over the last English kingdom, after the Danes overrun the other three. That war, with its massacres, defeats and betrayals, is the background to Uhtred's childhood, and leaves him uncertain of his loyalties." The descriptions of Viking battles are quite amazing.

Neither are sci/fi but I found both to be very good books for long drives.