Historical Fiction audiobooks

Champion of the World

By: Chad Dundas

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning historical fiction debut set in the world of wrestling in the early 1920s, a husband and wife are set adrift in a place where everyone has something to hide and not even the fights can be taken at face value.Late summer, 1921. Disgraced former lightweight champion Pepper Van Dean has spent the past two years on the carnival... Read more

The Witch of Napoli

By: Michael Schmicker

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Italy, 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist séance in Naples. A reporter photographs the miracle, and wealthy, skeptical psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi arrives in Naples to investigate. When she materializes the ghost of his dead mother, he risks his reputation and fortune to finance a... Read more

The Loyal Heart

By: Shelley Shepard Gray

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying confederate soldier and look after his widow. He didn’t expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places.Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look... Read more

The House at the Edge of Night

By: Catherine Banner

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don’t be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic.”—The Denver Post

A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry... Read more

The Gin Lovers

By: Jamie Brenner

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the Jazz Age, The Gin Lovers was first published as a six-part e-serial. Now this sensual and romantic story of how one high-society woman’s passion and courage lead her to love is available for the first time ever as a complete audiobook.It’s 1925, and the Victorian... Read more

Scandalous Redemption

By: Amanda Mariel

Narrated by: Anne Marie Damman

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

She never wanted him… He needed her… The wounded Claudia Akford and the captivating Lord Shillington must navigate their haunted pasts and forbidden desires to find a Scandalous Redemption in each other's arms.
In the aftermath of scandal, Claudia Akford emerges from a torturous marriage, her spirit unbroken. Now a widow, she's determined to... Read more

The Secret Years

By: Barbara Hannay

Narrated by: Blazey Best

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lucy Hunter stumbles upon her grandfather's World War II memorabilia, she finds a faded photograph of a stunning young woman and a series of heartfelt letters. They are clues about the secret years, a period of Lucy's family history that has been kept a mystery . . . until now. From the wild beauty of the Australian bush to England's rugged... Read more

Give the Devil His Due

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rowland Sinclair is invited to race on the Maroubra Speedway, also known as ‘The Killer Track,' he agrees without reserve. But then a journalist covering the race is found dead; an English blueblood with Black shirt affiliations is killed on the race track, and Rowland himself becomes a target. Add to the mix a strange young reporter... Read more

Shardlake: Dissolution

By: CJ Sansom

Narrated by: Full Cast, Jason Watkins & Mark Bonnar

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on CJ Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel.

Winter, 1537. Henry VIII has declared himself Supreme Head of the Church, and instructed his chief minister Thomas Cromwell to dissolve England's religious houses and seize their wealth. But Cromwell's plot to bring down the abbeys has hit a snag... Read more

Mail Order Bride: Montana Passion Brides, 4 Book Box Set

By: Amelia Rose

Narrated by: Charles D. Baker

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Can four brides bring hope to the men who so desperately need them, finding their own paths to happiness along the way?When Lady Moira Brennan leaves for Montana to stake her own claim on a homestead, she has no idea that a husband is already waiting for her--Moira is greeted by a bleak landscape of desperate farmers and a marriage contract with... Read more

It Can’t Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people... Read more

That Bright Land

By: Terry Roberts

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

That Bright Land is a new Southern gothic thriller from Terry Roberts, winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a... Read more

Once Upon a Moonlit Night

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt comes a delightful Maiden Lane novella that begins once upon a moonlit night---and ends wickedly, wonderfully ever after . . .

Hippolyta Royle is running for her life. Pursued by hounds on a cold rainy night, the heiress flags down a passing carriage and throws herself at the mercy of the... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia (Omnibus Season 2)

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the... Read more

No One But You

By: Leigh Greenwood

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Alone in the world and struggling to make ends meet, Texas war widow Sarah Winborne will do anything to keep her two small children safe and her hard-won ranch from going under. She hasn't fought for so long to lose everything, and if that means marrying a stranger to protect her family's future, then so be it.



She never expected anything but a... Read more

Jakob's Colors

By: Lindsay Hawdon

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Austria, 1944. Jakob, a gypsy boy--half Roma, half Yenish--runs for his life as he has been told to do. With shoes made of sack cloth--stained with another person's blood--and a stone clutched in one hand, a small wooden box in the other, he runs blindly, full of fear and nearly drained of hope.

He knows when to trust a stranger and when to be... Read more

The Prisoner of Hell Gate

By: Dana Wolff

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane. Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1500 souls.... Read more

Unburnable

By: Marie-Elena John

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy woman whose life was told of in chanté mas songs sung during Carnival—songs about a village on a mountaintop littered with secrets, masquerades that supposedly fly and wreak havoc, and a man who... Read more

Ithaca

By: Patrick Dillon

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander & Armando Durán

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself.Telemachus’ father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born … and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men... Read more

Rose Bride

By: Elizabeth Moss

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Margerie Croft yielded up her virginity before her wedding, and then fled from her eager suitor, knowing that she could not marry a man she did not love. Now she is viewed as soiled goods, fit for only for the role of courtier's plaything.



Virgil Elton is King Henry VIII's physician, working on a tonic to restore his sovereign's flagging libido.... Read more

An Elegant Façade

By: Kristi Ann Hunter

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Georgina Hawthorne has worked tirelessly to seal her place as the Incomparable for her debut season. At her first London ball, she hopes to snag the attention of an earl.



With money and business connections, but without impeccable bloodlines, Colin McCrae is invited everywhere but accepted nowhere. When he first encounters the fashionable... Read more

Beyond the Shadow of War

By: Diane Moody

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When the war finally ended in May of 1945, Lieutenant Danny McClain made good on his promise to come back for Anya in Holland. He expected her to put up a fight, but instead found her exhausted and utterly broken. Maybe it was unfair, asking her to marry him when she was so vulnerable. But this much he knew: he would spend a lifetime helping to... Read more

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Peter Riegert

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

he New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—“an excellent, hyperliterate, genre-pantsing detective novel that deserves every inch of its…blockbuster superfame” (New York).For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ""temporary"" safe haven created in the wake of the... Read more

Jake

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Grant heir fights for the lass of his dreams and the future of his clan.
Jake Grant, eldest son of the chief of Clan Grant, has always felt the weight of his sire’s shadow. Tales of Alexander Grant’s prowess are whispered throughout the Highlands, and Alex’s loving marriage to Jake’s mother, Maddie, is equally legendary. Jake’s not sure he... Read more