Historical Fiction audiobooks

Queenmaker

By: India Edghill

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For over forty years, Michal lived and reigned in David's court. She was the beautiful and proud daughter of King Saul and the prize David would risk his kingdom to win. Behind the palace doors, beneath the burning sun of the desert, or fleeing from Absalom's warriors, Michal was at the center of court intrigues. Queenmaker introduces in... Read more

McTeague

By: Frank Norris

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic immediacy as Frank Norris’ McTeague. Heredity and environment play the role of fate in this portrayal of human degradation in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.McTeague, a successful but naive dentist, marries Trina, introduced to him by her cousin Marcus Schouler.... Read more

The Well and the Mine

By: Gin Phillips

Narrated by: T.J. Kenneally & Margaret Nichols

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the... Read more

The Bellini Card

By: Jason Goodwin

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdulmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini's vanished masterpiece—a portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror—may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly sent to investigate, but—aware that the sultan's advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting—decides to deploy his... Read more

The History of Now

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. The sixty-five-year-old projectionist at the local movie theater encounters an unexpected love affair. The town’s drama leader wrestles with self-doubt over a politically-correct play a New... Read more

Resurrection Row

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourth in the series of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, Anne Perry's Resurrection Row explores the dark undercurrents that run through the lives of the idle rich in Victorian England. After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. Even more... Read more

Magic Time

By: Doug Marlette

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed North Carolina author Doug Marlette has won numerous prestigious awards-including the Pulitzer-for his cartoon work. Set during the Freedom Summer of 1964, his novel Magic Time "vividly capture[s] the spirit of history that animated those of us who were part of that extraordinary time," says congressman John Lewis. New York City... Read more

The White Rhino Hotel

By: Bartle Bull

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great War has ended, tragically for many; but for some more fortunate, East Africa holds the prospect of vast estates, fabulous wealth, and limitless opportunity in this powerful, grandly crafted novel of the natural and human perils that await pioneers in a promised land.It is in colonial Kenya, at Lord Penfold’s White Rhino Hotel, that the... Read more

Rules Of War

By: Iain Gale

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Steel, first met in Man of Honour, is a splendid hero on a new and dangerous mission. Perfect for all fans of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe. MEET JACK STEEL – GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER, HERO. In the early eighteenth century, the British army led by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, were the leaders of a wide-ranging... Read more

The Distant Beacon

By: Janette Oke & T. Davis Bunn

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne and Nicole are together again at the Harrow estate in England, but they find themselves facing divergent futures. While Anne comfortably settles into British life, Nicole once again searches the far horizon. Despite the raging War of Independence, she sets sail for the American colonies to manage her uncle's landholdings. The gallant... Read more

English Passengers

By: Matthew Kneale

Narrated by: Ron Keith, Simon Prebble, Gerard Doyle, Gianfra...

Length: 20 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

English Passengers presents the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of a remarkable cast of characters—including British convicts, government officials, missionaries who impose their European standards and self-serving rules on the native population, aboriginal Tasmanians caught in a desperate struggle for survival, and members of a... Read more

Flint and Silver - Abridged

By: John Drake

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island. John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, his charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, powerful fists... Read more

Witch Child

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity–safe passage to America. But the difficult ocean voyage only leads her to a community of inflexible, fearful... Read more

The Dream

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother … and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she has drawn the attention of Roger Langley, son of the... Read more

The Long Knives Are Crying

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III’s acclaimed Lakota Western series begins in 1875, as Sitting Bull gathers thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion.What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the days and weeks leading up to the conflict and the remarkable defeat of General... Read more

A Beautiful Place to Die

By: Malla Nunn

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Malla Nunn makes her debut as an author with A Beautiful Place to Die. Unfolding in 1952 South Africa, this riveting crime novel has been compared to the work of Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler.

Police detective Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched from Johannesburg to Jacob’s Rest, a remote town deep in the bush, to... Read more

The Hounds and the Fury

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Rita Mae Brown

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From best-selling author Rita Mae Brown, another clever, endearing story in the Foxhunting mystery series. Lushly described scenes from the hunt, talking animals who help solve the murder, and the beloved Sister Jane reunite to continue the New York Times best-selling mystery series. Book five, which focuses on the hound, draws us into the murky... Read more

Comanche Moon

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson pens riveting historical romances. Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago-and now she lives as a mute with her extended family. Meanwhile, Comanche Hunter of the Wolf sees her as the embodiment of an ancient prophesy and chooses her for marriage. Still... Read more

The Diezmo

By: Rick Bass

Narrated by: Brian Reddy

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Rick Bass has won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry and PEN/Nelson Algren Awards for his short fiction. With The Diezmo he crafts a stirring novel that sheds light on an extraordinary but little-known episode of Texas history. When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face... Read more

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dumas continues his Musketeer Romances with a final trilogy. The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de la Vallière and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask.It is May 1660, and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on... Read more

Hornblower and the "Atropos"

By: C Forester

Narrated by: Nicolas Coster

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the... Read more

One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead

By: Clare Dudman

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In his lifetime Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist who was better known for his offbeat scientific adventures than for his now famous theory of continental drift. In this lushly imagined and beautifully written novel, Clare Dudman charts his life from his birth in 1880 to his last daring Arctic exploration in 1930. Dudman vividly... Read more

The Color of Lightning

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in... Read more

The Snake Stone

By: Jason Goodwin

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Istanbul, 1838. In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying, and the city swirls with rumors and alarms. The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confusion. Yashim Togalu is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's... Read more