Historical Fiction audiobooks

Adella

By: Kimberly Grist

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1917 every man, woman, and child was called to civic duty as the “war to end all wars” encompassed the globe.When the patriotic call comes, Adella begins her campaign of encouragement by corresponding with the frightened and lonely soldiers. On the cusp of adulthood, the young woman is tired of living a cosseted life and hopes to gain her... Read more

No Life for a Lady

By: Adele Clee

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

After almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble knows she must find a new position. All his agents are married, and so what other reason could he have for calling her to his office late at night? Except her employer is a master matchmaker, a man who has discovered her true identity, knows her real... Read more

The Trouble With Tigers

By: Roxane Dhand

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

'This is a story with all the engaging elements of suspense and romance' FIVE STARS

This compulsive tale is rich in atmosphere and page-turning intrigue' FIVE STARS

'The story is engaging from the start with enough twists and turns in the plot to keep you guessing right until the last page' FIVE STARS

From the best-selling author of The Pearler's... Read more

Timandra

By: Theodor Kallifatides

Narrated by: Sara Iglesias

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Timandra es una de las figuras femeninas más fascinantes de la antigüedad griega. Mujer de una belleza excepcional, supo congregar en su casa a las mejores mentes de su tiempo, desde Sócrates a Eurípides. Pero sobre todo trascendió por, como dicen las fuentes históricas, ser 'el éter espléndido que convivió con el héroe Alcibíades y recogió sus... Read more

The Paris Affair

By: Melanie Hudson

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong meets Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale in this moving and powerful novel about love, loss and the resilience of the human spirit. Scarred by his experiences in World War One, German doctor, Sebastian Braun lives a quiet life tending to his patients and his beloved garden. Until Sophie Hathaway... Read more

The Nutcracker's Suite

By: Chautona Havig

Narrated by: Christa DelSorbo

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Time to dance, sugarplum.”A painter at the Meyer’s Toys factory, Clarice Stahl, knows something is strange about the way so many men come and go through Mr. Meyer’soffice, especially one in particular. Then murder strikes a little too close to home and uncorks a barrel of secrets.When mob king, Mario Topo’s, enforcer goes missing the race is on... Read more

Emily Climbs

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrated by: Nancy Halper

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writing! All the same, this is the... Read more

Sweet Medicine

By: Elizabeth Bell

Narrated by: Dallin Bradford

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the epic conclusion of the Lazare Family Saga, two very different brothers must become allies to save the woman they both love.Charleston, South Carolina, 1860. For nine long years, Clare Stratford has struggled to understand her mother’s final choice. The truth comes at a devastating price.Clare’s lifelong love, Dr. David Lazare, risks... Read more

Dead Reckoning

By: Jacob Moon

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A heinous murder sends Florida tabloid reporter Rayne Dawson sniffing for details. But when he discovers that a supernatural force may be responsible for both this death and a string of others, he enlists the help of the beautiful owner of the local history center. Together, they learn of an explosive element to the case that, like the tragic... Read more

A Mother's Heartbreak

By: Jennie Felton

Narrated by: Emma Powell

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling standalone saga, filled with romance, tragedy, drama, secrets and triumph in adversity from the author of the Families of Fairley Terrace series.

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After a tragic loss, can she ever find happiness?

When her father dies, Abigail Newman is forced to leave... Read more

The Empress

By: Gigi Griffis

Narrated by: Ellie Rose Boswell & Dominic Burgess

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject... Read more

When Sorrow Takes Wing

By: Kelly Romo

Narrated by: Talon David

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on true events of the Cristero War--one of the darkest times in Mexico's history.1927: In the wake of the Revolution, Mexico's Government bans the Catholic Religion. Federal soldiers execute priests in front of their churches and massacre entire villages of people who continue to worship. The people rise in rebellion against their own... Read more

A Child of the Dales

By: Diane Allen

Narrated by: Sarah Durham

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Set deep in the Yorkshire Dales, Diane Allen’s A Child of the Dales is a sweeping novel of family, deceit, separation and love.

Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper’s wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her. One wild stormy night, Ruby is reunited with her long-lost... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Rose Leslie, Helen McCrory, Garrick Hogan, Burn...

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore Cooper

A founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic... Read more

Calm in the Mountain Storm

By: Misty M. Beller

Narrated by: Leonor A. Woodworth

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This epic journey will test his ability to protect his children—and they’re all he has left.


Missionary Elise Lane returns with her team to the Rocky Mountain native tribe they serve to discover the entire village—including the children she’s come to love—has been massacred. A fierce brave standing at the edge of the devastation has taken the... Read more

Baron's War

By: Griff Hosker

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 3 in the Border Knight series.

When Prince Arthur is murdered and the French begin to take Normandy, Sir Thomas finds himself isolated and alone. The Norman barons conspire against King John and the English knight has a dilemma. Does he join the rebels or stay true to his beliefs? Undefeated he and one of his knights leave Anjou and sail to... Read more

When It's Over

By: Barbara Ridley

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming of age in Prague in the 1930s, Lena Kulkova is inspired by the left-wing activists who resist the rise of fascism. She meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, and follows him to Paris to work for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. As the war in Spain ends and a far greater war engulfs the continent, Lena gets stuck in... Read more

By Their Cold Fingers

By: Timothy Bryan

Narrated by: Jonathan Waters

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Greenland, 1408. Norse villagers at the end of the settled world struggle to endure an endless winter, but an unholy predator from the arctic steppe soon makes the weather the least of their concerns. Read more

Gracie Under Fire

By: Rachel Wesson

Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Heartbreaking, war, conflict, love and misunderstanding.

London 1937

Gracie Thompson has a job, a loving family, a twin brother who drives her insane and a great friend. A chance meeting introduces her to the love of her life. But the storm clouds are gathering, Europe is teetering on the verge of war and threatening to destroy everything Gracie... Read more

One Flew Through the Dragon Heart

By: C. S. Johnson

Narrated by: Hannah Sharafian

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chinese Legend.A British Secret.Star-Crossed Lovers with Incompatible Magic. 
Brixton Flew works as a professor of wielder instruction at Rembrandt Academy, hoping to erase the regrets of his youth along with the resulting debt. But when he comes face to face with his biggest regret—the woman who broke his heart, Adelaide Favan—Brixton soon... Read more

Green Mountain Boy

By: Robert Messano

Narrated by: Melba Sibrel King

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey into America’s turbulent founding in a time of conflict, heroism, and patriotism. Meet Ethan Allen, leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia during the Revolutionary War of Independence. Seek to uncover the secret behind his son Joseph’s uncanny skill of predicting the outcome of key battles at Fort Ticonderoga and Montreal. Immerse... Read more

Malison: Dragon Curse

By: Jonathan Moeller

Narrated by: Brad Wills

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The histories of Old Earth record that in the Year of Our Lord 778, Charlemagne’s rearguard under the command of Count Roland of the Breton March was ambushed and slain to a man. But Roland and his men were drawn through a magical gate, to a new and strange world of magic and deadly creatures. A world where every man, no matter what his estate... Read more

The Legacy of Halesham Hall

By: Jenni Keer

Narrated by: Hannah Kelly-Turner & James Meunier

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Solve the house's puzzle. Claim the Bellingham inheritance . . . Uncover the truth behind the mysterious legacy of Halesham Hall in this heartfelt dual-time novel from the author The Secrets of Hawthorn Place.

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A love that seems lost, may still yet be found, for real love always endures.

1890. One summer... Read more

Wind from the Hospitable Sea

By: Witold Makowiecki & Tom Pinch

Narrated by: Bill Allender

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In extraordinary times, twelve-year-old boys must act like men.Greece 562 BC. For insolvent debtors, the price of bankruptcy is slavery. When his mother and siblings are seized for unpaid debts, little Diossos must run to fetch help. He must cross mountains, forests, and stormy seas, brave wild animals, slave catchers, pirates, and the power of... Read more