Historical Fiction audiobooks

Weihnachtsglück in Ivy Hill

By: Julie Klassen

Narrated by: Sabine Schmitt

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Als seine Mutter ihm den Geldhahn zudreht, bleibt Richard nichts anderes übrig, als sein spannendes Leben als Schriftsteller in London zurückzulassen und in sein Heimatdorf zurückzukehren: Ivy Hill. Widerwillig lässt er sich darauf ein. Mit der Zeit beginnt er sich dort wohlzufühlen, woran die junge, hübsche Arabella nicht ganz unschuldig ist... Read more

Die Pension am Meer

By: Julie Klassen

Narrated by: Sabine Schmitt

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Als der Tod ihres Vaters sie verarmt zurücklässt, überredet Sarah Summers ihre Schwestern, ihr Haus an der Küste von Devonshire für Gäste zu öffnen, um ihre kranke Mutter zu versorgen. Die vier Schwestern sind fest entschlossen zusammenzuhalten und beginnen gemeinsam das neue Unternehmen. Bald übernachten die unterschiedlichsten Gäste bei ihnen... Read more

A Revolver to Carry at Night

By: Monika Zgustova

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A captivating, nuanced portrait of the life of Véra Nabokov, who dedicated herself to advancing her husband's writing career, playing a vital role in the creation of his greatest works.



Véra Nabokov (1902-1991) was in many ways the epitome of the wife of a great man: keenly aware of her husband's extraordinary talent, she decided to make his... Read more

Three Times Removed

By: M. K. Jones

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve the mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present. Together with a fellow genealogist, Zelah, Maggie... Read more

Ain’t No Grave

By: Mary Glickman

Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South.



Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one—not their families,... Read more

13 Park Lane

By: Naomi Clifford

Narrated by: Lorna Bennett

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is ever as it seems. Especially when you work at 13 Park Lane… 1872. Marguerite has fled to London, leaving behind a traumatic past in Paris. When she is offered work as a cook for mysterious French widow Madame Riel, she seizes the chance to start afresh. But as soon as Marguerite arrives, she is stifled by the tension in the house and... Read more

Государи Московские. Бремя власти

By: Дмитрий Балашов

Narrated by: Иван Литвинов

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

«Государи Московские» — монументальный цикл романов, созданный писателем, филологом-русистом, фольклористом и историком Дмитрием Балашовым. Эта эпическая хроника, своего рода один грандиозный роман-эпопея, уместившийся в многотомное издание, охватывает период русской истории с 1263 до 1425 года и уже многие десятилетия не перестает поражать... Read more

Рим — это я

By: Сантьяго Постегильо

Narrated by: Станислав Федорчук

Length: 25 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Порой один человек меняет ход истории, при жизни становится легендой, а после смерти — недосягаемым образцом для подражания. Порой на свете рождаются подлинно эпические персонажи, и один из них — Юлий Цезарь, фигура многогранная и сложная, защитник народа и борец с элитами, который превратился в диктатора и за свое стремление к власти поплатился... Read more

The Rest Is Memory

By: Lily Tuck

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

THE HEARTBREAKING STORY OF A YOUNG CATHOLIC GIRL TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ BECOMES A RASHOMON-LIKE RONDO BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST NOVELISTS.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world... Read more

ΜΙΑ ΖΩΗ ΣΑΝ ΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΙ,ΜΕΡΟΣ Γ

By: ΕΥΓΕΝΙΑ ΜΙΣΤΡΑΚΗ

Narrated by: ΕΥΓΕΝΙΑ ΜΙΣΤΡΑΚΗ

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Τα ευτυχισμένα προπολεμικά χρόνια, τα προικισμένα με επαγγελματική επιτυχία, οικογενειακή ζεστασιά και οικονομική ευημερία τα ακολούθησε για τον Άγγελο και την Αμαλία μια δεκαετία ολόκληρη , γεμάτη βάσανα,ανασφάλεια,αγωνίες και ανέχεια. Read more

Who Lived in a Shoe

By: Rachel Kovaciny

Narrated by: Steve Corona

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Levi Dalton is disappointed. He'd had high hopes for this visit from Uncle Matthew's old cavalry friend, Mr. Jones. Even though Mr. Jones brought along his wife, children, and a sister-in-law, surely he would have time to reminisce with Uncle Matthew about their time in the war. Then Levi would get to hear the kinds of exciting stories his... Read more

A Pony Express Romance

By: Misty M. Beller

Narrated by: Paul Curtis

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with an extra bonus epilogue!Only the fearless ride for the Express. After growing up as an orphan, Josiah English wants nothing more than to own his own ranch and raise Arabian horses. Riding for the Pony Express seems like the ticket to his dream. And when he meets the stationmaster’s beautiful sister, it seems he may be within reach of... Read more

Greener Grass

By: Caroline Pignat

Narrated by: Jacklyn Francis

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the farmers can no longer make their payments much... Read more

The Gospel Truth

By: Caroline Pignat

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Caroline Pignat's new historical novel recreates the world of a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1858.Through the different points of view of slaves, their masters and a visiting bird-watcher the world of the plantation comes to live in this verse novel. Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She... Read more

Kid Sterling

By: Christine Welldon

Narrated by: Jasen LaBorde

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sterling Crawford is a young kid living on the streets of New Orleans. It's 1906 and he's trying to support his mother who launders clothes for white people. Sterling plays trumpet, and what he'd really like is to learn from his idol, the legendary Buddy Bolden, who is playing a new kind of music that's turning New Orleans upside down.... Read more

Сыновья

By: Лион Фейхтвангер

Narrated by: Игорь Тарадайкин

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

В 1932 году выдающийся немецкий писатель Лион Фейхтвангер опубликовал роман «Иудейская война», в 1935 году последовал роман «Сыновья», в 1945-м — «Настанет день». Вместе они составили трилогию, посвященную жизни римского историка и военачальника иудейского происхождения Иосифа Флавия. Священник первой чреды Иерусалимского храма, патриот и... Read more

A Circle on the Surface

By: Carol Bruneau

Narrated by: Ryanne Chisholm

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together—though they have little idea how to create such a life.Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where he hopes they will stay. Una is restless and feeling... Read more

The Lost Sister

By: Andrea Gunraj

Narrated by: Phoenix Pagliacci

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The anticipated sophomore novel from the celebrated author of The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha, which Quill & Quire called “an exciting, memorable debut.” Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect,... Read more

The Spoon Stealer

By: Lesley Crewe

Narrated by: Shelley Thompson

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled across the... Read more

Lady Franklin of Russell Square

By: Erika Behrisch Elce

Narrated by: Patricia Reid

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

My dearest love, Where are you now? Spring, 1847, and Lady Franklin is back in London expecting to greet her hero husband, polar explorer Sir John Franklin, upon his triumphant return from the Northwest Passage. As weeks turn to months, she develops an unconventional friendship with Russell Square's gardener even as she reluctantly grows into... Read more

Censorettes

By: Elizabeth Bales Frank

Narrated by: Nicky Harvey

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight—then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett is a Censorette, part of a branch of British Intelligence stationed on the island to inspect mail between... Read more

A Match Made in London

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Hannah Martin

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to book one in the new series The School for Spinsters by award winning author Michelle Willingham.



Violet Edwards is painfully shy with a terrible stutter. Despite her mother's threats to send her away, she has plans of her own to win a husband. She enrolls herself in the infamous School for Spinsters, where she hopes to be transformed... Read more

When the Earl Desired Me

By: Lydia Lloyd

Narrated by: Christy Woods

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

He thought he'd lost her forever . . .



Lord Augustus Carrington, the Earl of Montaigne, is rumored to be the most abandoned rake in England. But the ton would be shocked if they knew the truth. Almost twelve years ago, he fell deeply in love with Olivia Watson, a maid in his family's house, and experienced a passion that changed him body and... Read more

Match Me If You Can

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Hannah Martin

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

After five unsuccessful seasons, Emma Bartholomew's stepmother threatens to auction off her hand in marriage. Horrified at the idea, Emma enlists the help of the School for Spinsters to help her find a husband quickly. But she knows that no man will want to wed her after he learns the secret she's hiding . . . that she's practically blind.



Cormac... Read more