Historical Fiction audiobooks

Firetide Coast

By: Claire McKenna

Narrated by: Elaine Claxton

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic conclusion to the Monstrous Heart Trilogy; a magical tale of intrigue on dark waters and a love story for the ages. The perfect gothic, gaslamp fantasy – ideal for fans of V.E. Schwab and China Mieville Arden Beacon has nothing left to lose. Having fought monsters, the deep waters... Read more

The Ghost of Ivy Barn

By: Mark Stay

Narrated by: Candida Gubbins

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'Beautiful and engaging and clever' Manda Scott, bestselling author of A Treachery of Spies

'A young witch to rival Tiffany Aching. Magic!' FMA Dixon

August 1940. In a quiet village in rural Kent, the enemy is at the gates . . .

The Battle of Britain rages and Faye Bright encounters the ghost of a pilot who won't give up the fight. Before she... Read more

The Brightest Star

By: Emma Harcourt

Narrated by: Lucy Bell

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' Dictionary of Lost Words.
1496 It is the... Read more

East End Girls

By: Rena Mason

Narrated by: Amanda Wyss

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With East End Girls, three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Rena Mason offers a fascinating new perspective on some of the most remembered and written about murders in history. Seized by the vicious killings of Jack the Ripper, Victorian London's East End is on the brink of ruin. Elizabeth Covington, desperate and failing to follow in her beloved... Read more

No Accidental Death

By: Garrett Hutson

Narrated by: James Wolven

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An accidental casualty of battle--or murder?  August 1937, the Japanese have invaded northern Shanghai, and a fierce battle rages across the city, but the International Settlement is an island of safety. When an American seaman is found shot on the edge of the urban battleground, mere feet from the boundary, Doug Bainbridge is assigned to... Read more

The Secret World of Connie Starr

By: Robbi Neal

Narrated by: Fiona Macleod

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning evocation of Australian life through the war to the 1950s, this novel is intimate and sweeping, immediate and dreamlike - a magical rendering of darkness and joy, and the beauty inherent in difference. For readers of Sarah Winman's Still Life, Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies and Rosalie Ham's The Dressmaker.
Connie Starr was... Read more

Desagüe - Abridged

By: Diego Rodríguez Landeros

Narrated by: Everardo Camacho

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"[Desagüe] ha dejado de mirar únicamente al relato para enriquecerse con el ensayo, la crónica, la estampa autobiográfica".—Milenio Esta novela narra cómo Indra se dispone a seguir el último recorrido de su novia suicida, a partir de cuya muerte se tejen numerosas historias que confluyen en una corriente turbia: la del Gran Canal de Desagüe del... Read more

The Falcon's Eyes

By: Francesca Stanfill

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 29 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Stanfill has persuasively re-imagined the Middle Ages, surrounding the legendary Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine with indelible characters in an immersive tale of intrigue, bravery, ruthlessness, and compassion. . . . The Falcon’s Eyes is a dazzling adventure, with riveting twists and turns and a surprising yet deeply satisfying conclusion.""—Sally... Read more

The Secret Wife

By: Emily Shiner

Narrated by: Natalie Duke & Wayne Mitchell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Cara is a devoted mother to two little girls. She loves her hectic life, but she looks forward to a relaxing weekend alone while her husband, Michael, takes the kids on a camping trip. But their dream trip turns into a nightmare when their daughters are taken, deep in the forest. One is returned safely. But one is still missing. As Cara and... Read more

Beyond the Desert Sands

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Can she reconcile who she's become with who she's meant to be?

Accustomed to an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in her parents’ small silver-mining desert town, leaving her handsome beau, Diego Morales, behind in California.

Adding insult to injury, she must bear the... Read more

Vera

By: Maxine Douglas

Narrated by: Jamison Walker

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A late morning mining accident casts gloom over the town of Blessings Valley. Over twenty souls were lost in an excavating explosion that has left several widows, friends, and townspeople mourning. The explosion occurred as the miners were coming out for lunch. A rescue force was sent out immediately to recover the bodies. Services are currently... Read more

Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc

By: Katherine J. Chen

Narrated by: Hannah Morrish

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is not your grandmother’s St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight.”—The New York Times Book Review

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD • “It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it,... Read more

Elizabeth

By: Maxine Douglas

Narrated by: Jamsion Walker

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Two people scarred by life. She carries the scars on her heart. He carries the scars on his body. Can they find peace, healing and love together? Read more

Miss Aldridge Regrets

By: Louise Hare

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Super cinematic and every bit as Agatha Christie-esque as its sounds... ifyou like murder mysteries, pick this one up!”
 
-Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers


Named A Most Anticipated Mystery of Summer by Betches, Essence, Crime Reads and more!

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An... Read more

A Dress Of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique design from the USA Today bestselling author of In Royal Service to the Queen.

Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and... Read more

What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix

By: Tasha Suri

Narrated by: Alex Williams & Becca Hirani

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"A powerful story beautifully told, highly recommended on audio." -AudioFile Magazine

What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri's masterful new take on Brontë's Wuthering Heights, will leave listeners breathless.

Sometimes, lost things find their way home...

Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a... Read more

A Groom for Claire

By: Patricia PacJac Carroll

Narrated by: Jamison Walker

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire just lost her husband to a blizzard, and she’ll need a man before spring. With two children to raise, she wants out of the farming community and picks a man who she hopes will take her and her family to civilization. Ethan has lived in the city all his life and works as a librarian, but his dream is to be a pioneer farmer. His chance... Read more

A Groom for Celia

By: Cat Cahill

Narrated by: Jamison Walker

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Another chance for love in a town called Last Chance . . .
Celia Thornton would give anything to start over after the blizzard ends her loveless marriage.
Jack Wendler needs to leave New York immediately after one too many business deals left his investors penniless.
Figuring marriage in remote western Nebraska must be better than the reckoning... Read more

Audie's Audacious Bride

By: Kimberly Grist

Narrated by: Joshua Oliver

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When disappointed hopes collide – Will a wilting mail-order bride muster enough resolve to soften a hardened rancher’s heart?
Faith Fairchild is destitute and has no other choice but to comply with her late father’s last wish—to find a husband through a matchmaking service. As a pastor’s daughter, she trusts his advice but believes hard work and... Read more

The Crimson Thread

By: Kate Forsyth

Narrated by: Aaron Tsindos, Zoe Carides & Socratis Otto

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies.May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce... Read more

Lazarus in St. Petersburg

By: Wayne Goodman

Narrated by: Wayne Goodman

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you alter the course of history if you had foreknowledge of a catastrophic event? Lazarus wrestles with this dilemma as he carries on his business as a healer in 1879 St. Petersburg. Accustomed to working with the talented and prominent, his charmed life gets upended with the introduction of a peculiar boy apprentice who might be the... Read more

Pride of Honor

By: Andrea K. Stein

Narrated by: Heather Tracy & Arthur Rowan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Two people determined to marry anyone but each other
She must marry to save her inheritance....
Sophie Brancelli, the orphaned illegitimate child of a duke’s daughter, must ensure her marriage to a suitable gentleman of the ton before her 21st birthday, or she’ll be destitute. Her grandmother, the duchess, provided her with a huge inheritance, but... Read more

The Light Always Breaks

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Neill Thorne

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.’s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another—but the danger of a relationship between a Black woman and a white man from the South could destroy them and... Read more

A Dangerous Ruse

By: Tilly Wallace

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Her opponents have her cornered, unless Sera makes an unexpected move…Seraphina continues to pick at the secrets entangling her. Then, during a ball, she spots a piece of enchanted jewellery eerily similar to the bracelet she once wore. But before she can find out about its origins, its owner is murdered.At least this time no one is blaming... Read more