Historical Fiction audiobooks

Counter-insurgency in Aden

By: Shaun Clarke

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to rid Yemen of its unstoppable guerrillas? Aden, 1964, and the British are waging two different kinds of war. Inhabitants of northern Yemen’s forbidding mountainous region of Radfan are conducting guerrilla attacks against the British. Armed by the... Read more

Night Fighters in France

By: Shaun Clarke

Narrated by: Seån Barrett

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS distract the Nazis to allow airborne landings to go ahead? September 1944: in the wake of the successful ‘Anvil’ landings, the Allies plan airborne landings in the Orléans Gap. To ‘soften’ the enemy beforehand, they decide to drop a squadron of men and jeeps in Central... Read more

Torrian

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A future chieftain discovers love has a power as strong as duty, but is it strong enough to go against his king and his sire?
Torrian Ramsay, future laird of the Ramsay clan, learned long ago not to take his family for granted. Without the love and devotion of his sire, he would never have survived the childhood illness that kept him abed for... Read more

The House of Daniel

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: Joey Collins

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A picaresque tale of minor league baseball-in an alternate Great Depression America full of wild magic. Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn't been the same. Hotshot wizards will tell you nothing's really changed, but then again, hotshot wizards aren't looking for honest work in Enid, Oklahoma. No paying jobs at... Read more

Saved by an Angel

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Marquis and Marquise de Castillon, together with their young son Jean-Pierre, are forced to flee France for England when the French Revolution breaks out in 1789. Jean-Pierre, educated at Eton, returns to Paris after Napoleon comes to power. It’s not long before he joins Napoleon’s army, survives the retreat from Moscow, and is badly wounded... Read more

Touching the Stars

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A tale of love and intrigue for the romantic at heartJustina Mansell, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Mansell, is told that her sister has been invited to visit India, but cannot accept. So Justina jumps at the chance to go in her place. Her aunt arranges for her to be chaperoned aboard ship by the stately Mrs. Arbuthnot, who is traveling... Read more

The Dark Lady's Mask

By: Mary Sharratt

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest, has an uncanny insight to human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in stories such as Sherlock Holmes, the mysteries Father Brown solved were... Read more

Midnight in Berlin

By: James MacManus

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West’s appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae’s hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets... Read more

Libra

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an... Read more

Mail Order Bride Margaret

By: Amelia Rose

Narrated by: Charles D. Baker

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Declan O'Bryan left Ireland to seek his fortune in the New World, but the journey was long for a man without a penny to his name. It took years of back-breaking work as a sailor and a journeyman for him to finally reach Montana, and to have enough money to his name to earn the title of proud homesteader. There's only one thing missing from his... Read more

Playing the Rake's Game

By: Bronwyn Scott

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ren Dryden has a spark she can't risk igniting . Emma Ward is in trouble. The devilishly handsome part-owner of her beloved Caribbean sugar plantation has arrived, and clearly he doesn't trust her. But his eyes promise pleasures she can only imagine. Maybe there's a way to get him onside . Ren Dryden may be fresh off the boat from London, but he... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 1

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret.

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... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 2

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An invitation to afternoon tea results in some startling revelations.

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 revealed in... Read more

Kindred

By: Steve Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who don’t want to be found. For years he has followed faint genealogical trails to reunite families—and uncover long-hidden secrets. But Tayte is a loner, a man with no ties of his own; his true identity is the most elusive case of his career.But that could all be about to change. Now Tayte has in his... Read more

The Vow

By: Felicity Goodrich

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

It happens in the chill of a September night, 1939: Their small Polish village is raided, burned to the ground. Anna, a devoutly Catholic teenager, watches as her friend is shot, as her father is dragged off for conscription in the German army.Szymon, the young village priest, stands silently with his parishioners as their church is ransacked... Read more

The Passion of Dolssa

By: Julie Berry

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Cordun...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. 
 
Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. 
 
Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the... Read more

Titans

By: Leila Meacham

Narrated by: Casey Holloway

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes "epic storytelling that plunges the reader headfirst" into the fate of heiress Samantha Gordon and ranch hand Nathan Holloway as their lives collide in early 1900s Texas. (Jackie K Cooper, The Huffington Post)

Texas in the early 1900s was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to... Read more

Fever at Dawn

By: Péter Gárdos

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine.

July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be... Read more

Lazaretto

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia’s black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of nineteenth-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary Lazaretto—America’s first quarantine... Read more

An Honorable Man

By: Paul Vidich

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Alan Furst and John le Carré comes An Honorable Man, a chilling Cold War spy thriller set in postwar Washington, DC that Kirkus Reviews called, “noir to the bone.”

Washington DC, 1953. The Cold War is heating up; McCarthyism, in all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation’s capital, and Joseph Stalin’s death has left a... Read more

The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1923 the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business—Alec travels to Washington, DC, to consult with the US government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American... Read more

Rare Objects

By: Kathleen Tessaro

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian... Read more

300 Days of Sun

By: Deborah Lawrenson

Narrated by: Nicole Poole & Fiona Hardingham

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters’ Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past—where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the... Read more