Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shadow of the Serpent

By: David Ashton

Narrated by: David Ashton

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR McLEVY.
'DAVID ASHTON IMPECCABLY EVOKES EDINBURGH' Financial Times
ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times
'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox
'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society
'A REAL PAGE-TURNER' Sunday Post
'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO'... Read more

Wedding Bells for Nurse Connie

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nurse Connie Byrne has lived and worked through the Second World War, has celebrated its ending with friends and patients in the East End of London and is now enjoying a fresh new chapter in her life and looking forward to her wedding. But, as many a young bride-to-be has proved, the path of true love never runs smooth . . .

Connie's busy... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 5

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The gambling dens of London and a secret assignation provide the backdrop for indiscretions large and small.

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... Read more

Star of Africa

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SENSATIONAL ADVENTURE FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott TO POSSESS IT HE WILL PAY IN BLOOD Where ex-SAS major Ben Hope goes, trouble always follows… Ben... Read more

Jane Eyre - Abridged

By: Rachel Joyce & Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Amanda Hale, Full Cast & Tom Burke

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, adapted by Rachel Joyce.

Orphan Jane learns at an early age that self-control is the surest means of retaining self-respect in adversity. It is a lesson that serves her well in the years ahead as she endures the misery of... Read more

Mail Order Bride Kathleen

By: Amelia Rose

Narrated by: Charles D. Baker

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathleen Grady has faced hardship - and overcome it - at nearly every turn. Whether it's the death of her betrothed at sea or the fight with her tyrannical brother for what's rightfully hers, she has struggled for so long that can't remember what peace in her soul even feels like.
But when the chance to become the wife of a stranger, a... Read more

In Due Time

By: Bethany Claire

Narrated by: Lily Collingwood

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything happens in its time…For Jeffrey Oakes, life in the seventeenth century hasn’t been the thrilling change of pace he hoped it would be. The lack of power tools, better hygiene, and cold beer has him yearning for the luxuries of his modern-day life. It might all be bearable if he had someone to maneuver the cultural differences and... Read more

Love & Friendship

By: Whit Stillman

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp comedy of manners, and a fiendishly funny treat for Jane Austen and Whit Stillman fans alike.

Impossibly beautiful, disarmingly witty, and completely self-absorbed: Meet Lady Susan Vernon, both the heart and the thorn of Love & Friendship. Recently widowed with a daughter who's coming of age as quickly as their funds are dwindling,... Read more

The Secrets of Flight

By: Maggie Leffler

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso & Brittany Pressley

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating, breakout novel—told in alternating viewpoints—brings readers from the skies of World War II to the present day, where a woman is prepared to tell her secrets at last.Estranged from her family since just after World War II, Mary Browning has spent her entire adult life hiding from her past. Now eighty-seven years old and a... Read more

A Fine Imitation

By: Amber Brock

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin.

Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a... Read more

Fall of Man in Wilmslow

By: David Lagercrantz

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web—an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing’s suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear
 
June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In... Read more

The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin

By: David Black

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare.When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic,... Read more

Ransomed Jewels

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With her husband’s dying words, “My marchioness has it,” the Marchioness of Huntingdon is thrown into a nightmare of intrigue and danger. But even those who are holding her brother ransom can’t force her to do the impossible—hand over a necklace she doesn’t have.Major Samuel Bennett believes the newly widowed Lady Claire Huntingdon is a traitor.... Read more

Kill or Be Kilt

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been three years since Lady Elizabeth Walsingham ended her childish crush on Laird Ian Munro, the fierce Highlander who scared everyone but her. She's a grown woman now, heading to London to find a proper English gentleman. But when the wild Highland laird walks through the door, she's that breathless youth all over again.



Ian tries hard to... Read more

The Risen

By: David Anthony Durham

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 22 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling and panoramic historical novel we see one of the most storied uprisings of classical times from multiple points of view: Spartacus, the visionary captive and gladiator whose toughness and charisma turn a prison break into a multi-cultural revolt that threatens an empire; his consort, the oracular Astera, whose connection to the... Read more

Covenant with Hell

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1277, Prioress Eleanor goes on a pilgrimage to a famous East Anglian shrine. There are rumors that King Edward may also visit the shrine soon to seek God’s blessing for his invasion of Wales. Lurking in this sacred place, however, is an assassin hoping to murder a king.Soon after Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas arrive, a nun... Read more

And After the Fire

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Xe Sands & Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives.In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier... Read more

Diana's Altar

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest and his last-minute confession, the death is ruled a suicide. The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant... Read more

The Ecliptic

By: Benjamin Wood

Narrated by: Jane MacFarlane

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Bellwether Revivals comes a "gorgeous and harrowing work" (Emily St. John Mandel) set on a mysterious island, where artists strive to recover their lost gifts--and where nothing is quite as it seems.
 
Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive artists' colony around. Its... Read more

Only Beloved

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivors’ Club series—as the future of one man lies within the heart of a lost but never-forgotten love …

For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally... Read more

The Service of the Dead

By: Candace Robb

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Expertly recreating the social and political upheavals of late medieval Europe, acclaimed author Candace Robb introduces a new series starring Kate Clifford, a woman forged on the warring northern marches of fourteenth-century England.Political unrest permeates York at the cusp of the fifteenth century, as warring factions take sides on who... Read more

Land of Silence

By: Tessa Afshar

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 INSPY Award winner, general fiction category

Before Christ called her daughter …

Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment …

Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father’s textile trade and caring for her family. When... Read more

Golden Age

By: James Maxwell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in an epic fantasy series by James Maxwell, author of the bestselling Evermen Saga.War is coming to Xanthos. The king refuses to face the truth, but his overlooked second son, Dion, can see the signs: strange warships patrolling, rumors of a new tyrant across the sea, and the princess of a neighboring land taken hostage…The... Read more

The Secret Healer

By: Ellin Carsta

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fourteenth century, opportunities for women are limited to the home. But spirited young Madlen finds her calling as assistant to the city’s trusted midwife, Clara. Working alongside Clara, Madlen develops a surprisingly soothing technique and quickly becomes a talented healer.After Clara’s tragic death, Madlen alone rushes to assist the... Read more