Historical Fiction audiobooks

Hell's Gate

By: Bill Schutt & J. R. Finch

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Japanese submarine is discovered abandoned deep in the Brazilian wilderness, a smart, adventurous, and tough zoologist must derail a catastrophic plot in Hell’s Gate.1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army Intel makes a shocking discovery: a 300-foot Japanese sub marooned and empty, deep in the Brazilian interior. A team of... Read more

The House of Secrets

By: Brad Meltzer & Tod Goldberg

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A secret worth killing for, a woman with no past, and an act of treason that changed America: #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with The House of Secrets.
"When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show,... Read more

The Girl from The Savoy

By: Hazel Gaynor

Narrated by: Jennifer Jones, Lucy Rayner & Paul Fox

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself.‘Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown …’Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great... Read more

Simply Unforgettable

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

They meet in a ferocious snowstorm. She is a young teacher with a secret past. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous . . . and utterly impossible to resist. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair,... Read more

Satan’s Lullaby

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the autumn of 1278. The harvest is in. The air is crisp. Dusty summer breathes a last sigh before the dark seasons arrive.For Prioress Eleanor, dark times arrive early in Norfolk. The head of her order, Abbess Isabeau, has sent Father Etienne Davoir from their headquarters in France to inspect all aspects of Tyndal Priory, from its morals... Read more

Tempted

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Danielle O'Farrell

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical romance from USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Jess MichaelsThe youngest son of the Woodley clan, Gabriel has been obsessed with bringing his missing twin sister home. His drive has forced him to block out all else, including any feelings he may have for the beautiful Juliet Gray. But when she is brought to London by Gabriel’s... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 9

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Some documents are discovered that threaten the future of more than one family.

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens.

Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be... Read more

A Grave Concern

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the University is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a 'surgeon' recently arrived from Nottingham, his sister is being rooked by the mason she has commissioned to build her husband's tomb, and his friend,... Read more

Shadow of the Hangman - The Bow Street Rivals, book 1 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery... Read more

The Devil's Apprentice - Nicholas Bracewell, Book 11 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter, Witchcraft and Devilish Deceit. Faced with the austerities of a bitterly cold English winter, the theatre is deserted and Westfield's Men find themselves out of work. Fortuitously, the company is invited to perform at a country home in Essex; welcome news to the disgruntled players. The company decide it's the perfect opportunity to... Read more

Two for the Lions

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This tenth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco puts the tough private eye in the lions’ den to investigate an extraordinary case of murder.Nothing’s certain except death and taxes. Catching tax evaders for the Emperor Vespasian looks like a plum position for Marcus Didius Falco, who has teamed up with his old boss, Anacrites, the crotchety chief... Read more

Marrying Winterborne

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A ruthless tycoonSavage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better . . .A... Read more

The Night Manager

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • AMC Miniseries event April 19 Tues 10/9c
 
John le Carré, the legendary author of sophisticated spy thrillers, is at the top of his game in this classic novel of a world in chaos. With the Cold War over, a new era of espionage has begun. In the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union, arms... Read more

Duke of Sin

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A MAN OF SIN

Devastatingly handsome. Vain. Unscrupulous. Valentine Napier, the Duke of Montgomery, is the man London whispers about in boudoirs and back alleys. A notorious rake and blackmailer, Montgomery has returned from exile, intent on seeking revenge on those who have wronged him. But what he finds in his own bedroom may lay waste to all... Read more

The Thief's Daughter

By: Jeff Wheeler

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.The second book in the million-copy bestselling Kingfountain series from Jeff Wheeler.Owen Kiskaddon first came to the court of the formidable King Severn as a prisoner, winning favor with the stormy monarch by masquerading as a boy truly blessed by the Fountain. Nine years hence, the once-fearful Owen has grown... Read more

Six Degrees of Scandal

By: Caroline Linden

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Olivia Townsend is in trouble and out of options. Pursued by a dangerous man in search of a lost treasure she doesn't possess, she's got only two things in her favor: her late husband's diary—which she was never meant to see—and the man who was her first and only love. Losing him broke her heart, though she's been careful to hide it for the last... Read more

Hitler, Mussolini, and Me

By: Charles Davis

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1938 Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to “do something” about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into... Read more

The Wicked Duke

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Lulu Russell

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Third in the roguishly intriguing series by the New York Times bestselling author of Tall, Dark, and Wicked and His Wicked ReputationShe appeals to his wicked inclinations, but he never expects she might snare his heart …Suspected of his brother’s murder, Lancelot Hemingford, Duke of Aylesbury, was forced to give up his hell-raising habits in... Read more

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

By: Joy Callaway

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out... Read more

A Hero of France

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest war novel from the New York Times bestselling author and “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) Alan Furst.

Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when Britain was losing the war. Many of the characters are... Read more

The Letter Writer

By: Dan Fesperman

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Who exactly is Danziger? He’s a writer of letters for illiterate immigrants on Manhattan’s Lower East Side—“a steadfast practitioner of concealing and forgetting” for his clients, and perhaps for himself: he hints at a much more worldly past. What and whoever he really is or has been, he has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city and its... Read more

The Fairest of Them All

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s glittering new series, wedding bells are ringing…but which Whitridge twin is the right groom?The penniless orphan of a disreputable earl, Lady Charlene Blanchard thrives on the adventure of picking the pockets of unsavory gentlemen to survive. But due to her extraordinary beauty and prized... Read more

Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of English King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry's first, devoted, and "true"... Read more

The Heir

By: Grace Burrowes

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper . . .



Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented, educated... Read more