Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mademoiselle Revolution

By: Zoe Sivak

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution.

Sylvie de Rosiers, as the daughter of a rich planter and an... Read more

The Proposition

By: Madeleine Roux

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman trapped in a loveless engagement joins forces with a mysterious man bent on vengeance against her fiancé in The Proposition, a lively tale of intrigue, revenge, and romance.

What would you propose?

Clemency Fry has always been certain that marriage is a ludicrous arrangement—a notion she has believed ever since reading a scandalous... Read more

Mother of Strangers

By: Suad Amiry

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Lameece Issaq

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR  • Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people.

Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, Mother of Strangers... Read more

Forbidden

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of her husband freed Serena Riverton from life as an abused sex-object. Now, her brother plans to sell her to another vile man.



This time, Serena flees, but finds herself stranded and near penniless. When a passing gentleman offers help, Serena accepts, and develops a new plan: become a rich man's mistress so she can leave at any... Read more

Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "masterly" thriller from the acclaimed author of The Town, the right‑hand man of one of the most infamous mob bosses in American history goes on a dangerous mission (New York Times Book Review).

In the late 1970s, The Outfit, led by Tony Accardo, has the entire city of Chicago in its grip. When the bracelet he bought his wife is stolen... Read more

On My Honour

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lady Margaret Blake and her sister lose their parents in a boating accident they are left to the guardianship of their uncle. Disregarding their feelings for the price their beauty will fetch on the Marriage Mart, he arranges a match for both. Lady Margaret, however, has her own views on the matter and takes her fate into her own... Read more

Musta joki, kuoleman joki

By: Jorma Kurvinen

Narrated by: Jan-Christian Söderholm

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lapin sota, Tornion ympäristö. Suuren taistelun edellä joukkueenjohtaja Juntusen miehet ovat jännittyneitä. Onko heidän aika lähteä liikkeelle? Juntunen keskustelee nimittäin merkitsevän oloisesti toisen joukkueen johtajan kanssa. Suurin osa joukkueen miehistä tuntee Juntusen jo rauhan ajoilta; johtihan Juntunen kotiseudullaan savottatöitä. Moni... Read more

Scot Under the Mistletoe

By: Caroline Lee

Narrated by: Hayley Munro

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A year ago, Nessa Oliphant FINALLY landed the man of her dreams in bed…but when her father, the laird, betrothed her to the first Henry, her lover failed to fight for her. Brohn, the housekeeper’s son, might be in command of the Oliphant troops, but knows his duty to the clan is to step aside and let Nessa make a strong betrothal contract. But... Read more

The Unlikely Lawman

By: Steve Kelton & Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Rascally cowboy Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado on a horse drive for an old friend when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Hewey, the worst pistol shot in the West, is deputized to bring the criminal to... Read more

Daughter of Mystery

By: Heather Rose Jones

Narrated by: Kitty Kelly

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit Baron Saveze's fortunes—even less his bodyguard, a ruthlessly efficient swordswoman known only as Barbara. Wealth suddenly makes Margerit a highly eligible heiress and buys her the enmity of the new Baron. He had expected to inherit all, and now eyes her fortune with open envy.

Barbara proudly served... Read more

Maeva

By: Patricia PacJac Carroll

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

To say Maeva Stewart is not a patient young woman is an understatement. Full of ideas, she meets life head on – usually with her best friend and neighbor, Ruby Risler. Aside from Ruby’s good qualities as a friend, she also has a brother, Leo.After giving cookies to the men leaving the train station for Camp Douglas, Maeva begins writing letters... Read more

Wicked

By: Jill Barnett

Narrated by: Rachael Beresford

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winning a stubborn lady turns into the battle of his life for a powerful knight in Jill Barnett's latest romance set along the Welsh borderlands. Lady Sofia Howard has sworn never to marry after her young heart was broken by an arrogant young squire. She's spurned every suitor to the dismay of her guardian, King Edward I, who finds that even... Read more

Kommando Reichsführer Himmler

By: Sven Hassel

Narrated by: Philippe Calmon

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

« HASSEL DÉCRIT LE SOULÈVEMENT DE L'ARMÉE POLONAISE COMME UN DRAME RÉEL ÉBLOUISSANT » NOUVELLES LITTÉRAIRES, FranceLa rumeur court que nous allons être transférés à Varsovie. Heide, qui est toujours bien informé, affirme que là-bas c'est un enfer. Il parle d'une retraite des Allemands sur le front est. Des milliers de parachutistes britanniques... Read more

Camarades de front

By: Sven Hassel

Narrated by: Herve Carrasco

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

« LE SOLDAT INCONNU DE LA DEUXIÈME GUERRE MONDIALE POSSÈDE MAINTENANT SON MONUMENT » MORGENAVISEN, Norvège Nous entendons les chenilles des tanks qui s'approchent. – Un T-34. Ils nous ont sûrement découverts, murmure Petit-Frère. – Ne bougez pas tant qu'il n'arrive pas ici, après on s'enfuira ! L'affreux bruit des chenilles se rapproche de plus... Read more

The Optimist

By: E.M Delafield

Narrated by: Brittney Wash

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Once said to be one of Delafield’s oddest books yet also said to be her most thought-provoking novel. The story is largely dominated by Canon Morchard, an 'utterly impossible clergyman' whose children and lives are dominated by his wishes and manipulation. The story is largely seen through Owen’s eyes – a man who fought on the Western front for... Read more

Tatianna

By: Barbara Goss

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Tatianna Murray joins her best friends in writing to the men headed for Europe during World War I. Ryan’s letters stand out from the others. Two strangers find within the words something they both share: loneliness and the loss of their parents. As the correspondence continues, they find love, although they’ve never met.While in the horrific... Read more

Scattered Seed

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Kimberly Woods

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Three sisters navigate the horrors of the Middle Passage in a powerful historical novel about family, honor, and the will to live, by the author of The Daughter of Union County.Timbuktu, western Africa, 1706. Folashade, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a professor of linguistics, is sent south with her older sisters, Bibi and Adaeze, to endure... Read more

The Secret of Bow Lane

By: Jennifer Ashley

Narrated by: Anne-Marie Piazza

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to—who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. Kat is jolted by Charlotte’s claims that Joe was not only murdered but that he also had amassed a small fortune before he died. Charlotte makes the... Read more

The Highlander's Promise

By: Mary Wine

Narrated by: Timothy Campbell

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Terin Campbell had been obedient. And she'd been desperate. But now? Many would say she'd won the day. Triumphed over the evil planned for her by her late husband and his mother. Terin was still alive and faced with the question of what to do with the rest of her life.



And there was only one thing she was certain of . . . she wasn't waiting... Read more

Hearts of Briarwall

By: Krista Jensen

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

London and the countryside of Albury, England, 1906.Lydia Wooding can hardly keep up with all the inventions the new century has brought. She’s particularly fond of the petrol motor car, a luxury that fuels her longing for independence. Her older brother and guardian, Andrew, however, refuses her frequent requests to learn to drive. He’s been... Read more

De schat in het klooster

By: Kevin de Haan

Narrated by: Birgit Schuurman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Het beveiligingsbedrijf van de half-IJslandse Laufey Gísladóttir wordt door een katholieke woongemeenschap in 's-Heerenberg ingehuurd om het aangrenzende kerkhof te beveiligen tegen vandalisme. De bewoners vermoeden dat de indringers op zoek zijn naar een eeuwenoude schat, die op het terrein verborgen zou liggen.Laufey en haar collega Niels... Read more

Matrimonio a sorpresa (La collezione eterna di Barbara Cartland 24)

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Stefano Sfondrini

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Quando un locandiere scozzese chiede all'austero e riservato Drue, duca di Warminster, di dare un passaggio a una vecchietta la cui carrozza è in panne, lui accetta con riluttanza. La fragile vecchia signora è in realtà una giovane bellezza dai capelli rossi di nome Jabina, scappata di casa per evitare un matrimonio impostole dal padre. Quando... Read more

A Feather on the Water

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For three women in postwar Germany, 1945 is a time of hope—lost and found—in this powerful novel by the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express.Just weeks after World War II ends, three women from different corners of the world arrive in Germany to run a Displaced Persons camp. They long to help rebuild shattered lives—including... Read more

La freccia di Cupido (La collezione eterna di Barbara Cartland 19)

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Stefano Sfondrini

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Per Melissa Wade il futuro non potrebbe essere più nero: il secondo matrimonio di suo padre si sta rivelando un disastro, e la nuova moglie è tanto rozza quanto ricca, interessata solo a divertirsi bevendo e andando a caccia. Per di più, la matrigna le ha dato un terribile ultimatum: andarsene di casa oppure sposare immediatamente un uomo scelto... Read more