Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Shadow of the Bell Tower

By: Stefano Vignaroli

Narrated by: Luis Cruz

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Year 2017: the young scholar Lucia Balleani, arranging and classifying the texts of the library of the Hoenstaufen Foundation, starts working in the old palace that had been the residence of the noble Baldeschi-Balleani family, of which she is a direct descendant. A series of visions linked to what happened to Lucia Baldeschi, of the same name,... Read more

Then Came the Fire

By: Rachael Huszar

Narrated by: Jenn Lee

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years have passed, and Three Willows is on the verge of becoming obsolete. The drought that took hold after the departure of the Founders was one thing, but now the new train line threatens to leave the town in the dust. Jessalyn and Sam are determined to keep that from happening, but they're short on ideas.Their prayers are answered by... Read more

De rättrådiga

By: Vivian Stuart

Narrated by: Magnus Schmitz

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Den sjunde boken i den spännande och dramatiska berättelsen om Australiens kolonisation - ett land av blod, passion och drömmar. Omvälvningarna i den nye kolonin är täta och genomgripande. En guvernör har nyss avsatts, en rebellregering har tvingats till reträtt och en ny guvernör har kommit till Australien. Kommer det att innebära... Read more

Our Man Adelaide

By: Martin Schiller

Narrated by: Rebecca McKernan

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

​​The war that everyone had feared has finally broken out. While Sir Thomas and Mr. Bertrand cope with the grim realities of the modern battlefield in Flanders, Adelaide is sent to hunt for spies in the wilds of Yorkshire.The safety of her adopted countrymen, and England's ability to resist the German onslaught are both at stake, and she... Read more

Gala und Dalí - Die Unzertrennlichen - Berühmte Paare - große Geschichten, Band 1 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Sylvia Frank

Narrated by: Eva Becker

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Das Leben ist zu kurz, um unbemerkt zu bleiben." Spanien, 1929: Gala begleitet ihren Mann, den Dichter Paul Éluard, in den Fischerort Cadaqués, wo er einen jungen Künstler namens Salvador treffen will, der bald in Paris ausstellen soll. Als Gala den zehn Jahre jüngeren Künstler kennenlernt, ist sie fasziniert von seinem eigenwilligen Auftreten.... Read more

The Champion

By: David Pilling

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1300 AD: the armies of Edward Longshanks and the Guardians of Scotland confront each other. The final battle for control of northern Britain looms. Meanwhile Robert de Bruce, the young lord of Carrick, waits in the background to seize his opportunity. Bruce dreams of taking the Scottish crown for himself, and will stop at nothing to seize it.

En... Read more

Victus (edició actualitzada en català)

By: Albert Sánchez Piñol

Narrated by: Jordi Llovet

Length: 24 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

«Ho explicaré tot! Com van fotre el general Villarroel, com van derrotar les nostres victòries. Perquè, finsara, d'aquella guerra només he sentit les versions que vénen de dalt o de l'enemic.» Victus és una novel·la històrica que ens narra la guerra de Successió espanyola, un conflicte que pot considerar-se la primera de les conteses mundials i... Read more

The Medici Murders

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day - murder is bad for tourism!

The police recruit the help of retired archivist, Arnold Clover. Godolphin had hired his... Read more

Murder on the Caronia - The Ocean Liner Mysteries - An Action-Packed Edwardian Murder Mystery, Book 4 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York, 1908. While waiting to embark on the Caronia, the Cunard Line's famous ocean liner, private detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are startled to witness the boarding of a man and woman in shackles. They discover that these prisoners are being brought back to England by Scotland Yard to face trial for murder. Over the... Read more

Blood Feud

By: S. J. A. Turney

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wolves of Odin have been unleashed: the hunt has begun.

Anno Domini 1040. Christianity has swept unstoppably across Scandinavia, leaving few enclaves of the old ways clinging on to their fading world as King Olof of Sweden works to convert his people. A young warrior, Halfdan, has witnessed the ‘mercy' of the Christian lords, watched his... Read more

Urraca. Reina de Asturias

By: María Teresa Álvarez

Narrated by: Mónica Herdocia

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

La Historia casi ha olvidado que en pleno siglo XII, Asturias tuvo a su primera y única reina: Urraca, hija natural del emperador Alfonso y de la noble Gontrodo. El amor que esta mujer sentía por su tierra era tal, que hizo que su padre le otorgara su gobierno con título de reina. María Teresa Álvarez, otra asturiana de pro, recupera a esta... Read more

World Mythology

By: David A. Leeming

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger... Read more

The Distant Hills

By: Lucy Walker

Narrated by: Taryn Ryan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide.

"Lucy Walker is Australia's Queen of Romance. She writes just what the reader ordered." Daily Mirror.

Angela and Nellie plan to live with a family friend in Western Australia. When their ship from England docks, they learn that she has died in a tragic... Read more

The Sea Hawk

By: Manohar Malgonkar

Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeenth-century India. Chhatrapati Shivaji's dominion has been firmly established over the Deccan peninsula. Troubled by the mounting European threat along the Konkan coast, the Maratha empire turns to Kanhoji Angrey, master mariner, excellent swordsman and astute strategist, to lead its navy. For the next few decades, until his death in... Read more

Varangian

By: Griff Hosker

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The story of the last two Housecarls from Harold Godwinson's army who, forced from England by the Normans, journey down the Russian rivers to join the Varangian Guard where they fight, once more the Normans from Italy. The two men have to fight not only barbarians and the Empire's enemies but treachery from within the complex world of Byzantine... Read more

The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris

By: Daisy Wood

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow & Tom Lawrence

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction comes a tale of love, loss and a betrayal that echoes through generations… Paris, 1940: War is closing in on the city of love. With his wife forced into hiding, Jacques must stand by and watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear.... Read more

The Three Sisters of Victory Walk

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Alex Tregear

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. A brand new series from the bestselling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk Rose, Clover and Daisy are the pretty blond sisters of the Harrison family, living... Read more

Under a Veiled Moon

By: Karen Odden

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat The Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to... Read more

Houston Hall - Schatten der Vergangenheit, Teil 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Mary Cronos

Narrated by: Fanny Bechert

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Schottland, Mai 1963 Ein grausamer Dreifachmord erschüttert die altehrwürdigen Mauern Houston Halls. Anthony Houston, der letzte Überlebende seiner Familie und erfolgreiche Anwalt aus Edinburgh, kehrt zum elterlichen Landsitz zurück, um dem Verbrechen auf die Spur zu kommen. Doch die Stagnation der Ermittlungen und seine Angst vor den... Read more

Veritorstai

By: Unto Katajamäki

Narrated by: Petri Hanttu

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

1940-luvun lopulla leimahtaa lakko, joka muuttaa kaiken. Suomi vuonna 1949. Sodanjälkeinen köyhyys ravistelee maata, ja monia työntekijöitä uhkaa joko työttömyys tai palkanleikkaukset. Kemi-yhtiön työntekijät eivät suostu työnantajien vaatimuksiin, vaan aloittavat suurlakon. Toimittaja Leo Virta saapuu paikalle raportoimaan lakosta ja löytää... Read more

The Poison Machine

By: Robert J. Lloyd

Narrated by: Dan Calley

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1679—A year has passed since the attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt—estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke—is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the... Read more

Mortal Friends

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 24 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the National Book Award–winning An American Requiem and the classic bestseller Constantine’s Sword comes the story of Colman Brady, an Irish farmer who involves himself in the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s and later escapes to Boston where he rises to and falls from political power and seeks a second chance through the... Read more

The Healer's Gift

By: Willa Blair

Narrated by: Dave Gillies

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Coira MacDugall deserves the harshest punishment for her actions in the Highlands. But her clan's new laird, Logan, defies her expectations. And the Healer's gift changes everything she thought she knew—about herself and her future.



Coira MacDugall paid with her life for her attack on the Highland Healer. But her victim did more than heal Coira's... Read more

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

By: lê thi diem thúy

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an... Read more