Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Particular Man

By: Lesley Glaister

Narrated by: Esther Wane, Rosie Akerman & Paul Fox

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Love never dies in this novel by “a writer of addictive emotional thrillers.” —The Independent Told from three perspectives, A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss. When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner-of-war camp, it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling, the man who loved him. When he visits... Read more

Dawn with a Duke

By: Erica Ridley

Narrated by: Rosie Akerman

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author: Secrets and scandal abound when two strong-willed opposites are snowbound together in this witty, heartwarming romance!
As the daughter of a duke, Lady Isabelle’s pristine reputation is paramount. Her high status is how she’ll attract the titled suitor her mother insists she wed. When Belle’s chaperone... Read more

Rosie's Dilemma

By: Jennie Felton

Narrated by: Emma Powell

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the emotional and unforgettable brand-new novel from Jennie Felton.

When war is declared in September 1939, Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of Hillsbridge to be with her widowed mother. She had fled to the city some years earlier to escape the heartache and shame of a disastrous end to her... Read more

Valhalla's Fury

By: Donovan Cook

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The next instalment in Donovan Cook's thrilling Dark Ages adventure series.Abandoned by his people and destined for Valhalla, do not stand in the way of his fury.Ribe is lost, its hall burnt, and Charles is still missing. Sven must once more sail into dangerous waters to rescue his grandson.King Louis of East Francia, the man who took Sven’s son... Read more

Roots

By: Torill Thorup

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Inga Svartdal has just been married off to the much older Niels. She quickly realises that Gudrun, Niels' adult daughter from his first marriage, does not intend to relinquish control of the family farm. Inga is forced to bow to the will of her wicked stepdaughter. It doesn't take long until Niels starts asserting what he believes to be his... Read more

Clipped Wings

By: Torill Thorup

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Inga Svartdal struggles to adapt to her new life on the Gaupås farm. Although she finds joy in the little things and makes new friends, she cannot find any joy in her marriage to the much older Niels. Her heart belongs to Martin Storedal, the son of her father's worst enemy. More complications ensue now that Inga is pregnant, without knowing who... Read more

Caballería roja

By: Isaak Bábel

Narrated by: Pedro Ruiz

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Las difíciles condiciones políticas y sociales que Rusia enfrentó durante la primera mitad del siglo XX provocaron la reacción de un puñado de escritores que se dieron a la tarea de relatar las condiciones de violencia y crueldad que el país vivió. Tales son los temas de este libro, escrito por un autor de origen judío, que fue periodista... Read more

Fletcher's Fortune

By: John Drake

Narrated by: Joseph Lindoe

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Fletcher is unsure of his parentage, but he does know that, as an apprentice, he couldn't legally be seized by the press gang. This particular gang, however, didn't abide by the law. Fletcher finds himself risking life, limb and sea sickness to save his fortune now at risk of being lost to his evil step-mother and loathsome half-brothers. Read more

The Viscount Deception

By: Wendy May Andrews

Narrated by: Julie Hinton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Sparks fly. Will they burn bridges or warm hearts?After almost becoming a pawn in a villain's schemes, Lady Anne is firming her backbone and grasping independence. But that doesn't change the fact that she needs to make an advantageous marriage to pull her family out of destitution.Confirmed bachelor, Wesley Dunbar, Viscount of Bracondale, is... Read more

The Island of Doctor Moreau

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Matthew Posner, Nathalie Boltt, Amy Escobar, An...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, a British scientist is lost at sea. Once rescued, he finds himself on a mysterious island populated with strange, half-human, half animal creatures who are ruled over by a mysterious scientist and his assistant. This new full-cast audio adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic tale of the consequences of science without morality vividly... Read more

Before and During

By: Vladimir Sharov

Narrated by: Al Bernstein

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha – a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss – admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment.

Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who “died... Read more

The Imperial Agent

By: Timeri N. Murari

Narrated by: William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.It is the first decade of the twentieth century and the British Empire in... Read more

Dream Watchman

By: Tina Roberts

Narrated by: Alice White (Synthesised Voice)

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
Emily Rollins and the Sword of Raywood returns in the Dream Watchman sequel... Read more

The White Feather

By: Mary Christian Payne

Narrated by: Lesley Parkin

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The White Feather is a poignant, romantic, and sometimes tragic novel set in both the battlefields of World War I France, and in a small, Cotswold village named Claybourne-on-Coln. This engaging novel presents the reader with unforgettable characters, courageous and cowardly, generous and self-serving.

Mary Christian Payne once again takes you to... Read more

TRAITOR TO HERO

By: Lázaro Droznes

Narrated by: Jack William

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch painter who produced faked Vermeers, fooled his Dutch fellowmen, sold one to Herman Goering, and finally had to confess his forgeries to save himself from the death penalty, accused for high treason. After the trial he became a national hero for cheating the Nazis.Han van Meegeren, was a Dutch... Read more

Heartbeat Echoes

By: Catherine Sienna

Narrated by: Rachel Reader

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily, a nurse on vacation, joins her archaeologist friends Sophia and Claire at a dig site in Greece, where they are uncovering an ancient Roman city. During their excavation in a tunnel, they inadvertently travel back in time to the era when the Roman Empire ruled the region. As they search for an artifact that could send them back to their... Read more

Road to Rome

By: Marina Pacheco

Narrated by: Jacob Daniels

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Galen find the answers he seeks?Europe, 998 AD. Galen and Alcuin have finally escaped the clutches of the Moors. Now they’re adrift in an unsettled continent where invasions, cults, plagues, drought and the looming millennium have upset the world order. Do these two young monks have what it takes to fulfil Alcuin’s promise to get to... Read more

The Blue

By: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrated by: Eleanor Hicks

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In eighteenth century England, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities.In eighteenth century London, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities; fortunes are made and lost upon it. Kings do battle with knights and knaves for possession of the finest pieces and the secrets of their manufacture.For Genevieve Planché, an English-born... Read more

Dreamland

By: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrated by: Cicely Long

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America’s Playground.

The invitation to Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America’s richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City... Read more

Piece-A-Way Crossroads

By: Gloria Gipson Suggs

Narrated by: Claire Codilla

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Piece-A-Way Crossroads is a work of fiction used on the life of a couple, Peter and Rhea, who lived in Marshall County, Mississippi, from the 1930s through the 1960s. It is written from the perspective of Jeannie, one of their daughters, who invites the readers to come piece-a-way with her as she tells their story. Jeannie introduces some of the... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair

By: David Stuart Davies

Narrated by: Wayne Forrester

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this mashup of genres Sherlock and Dr. Watson meet "The Prisoner of Zenda".Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll... Read more

Illusion

By: Stephanie Elmas

Narrated by: William Birch (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.London, 1873.Returning home from his travels across the globe, Walter... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Reigate Squire

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Robin Reads

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr Watson takes Sherlock Holmes into the country to recover from exhaustion, unwittingly leading them into a new case of murder involving the Reigate Squire. First published in 1893 and collected as part of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Narrated by Robin Reads. Read more

The Second Mrs. Bennet

By: Catherine Bilson

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When Charlotte Lucas becomes the new Mrs. Bennet, taking charge of the household after her predecessor's untimely death, she guides the fates of the five Bennet sisters with a steady hand. Even Mr. Darcy can find little to criticise in the elegant family, and much to admire in the witty, clever Elizabeth.However, rumours and scandals brew when... Read more