Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mrs. Jeffries Plays the Cook

By: Emily Brightwell

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Minerva Kenny is a dear woman, but her tendency to "borrow" things without asking has finally caught up with her. William Barrett has learned Minerva's shameful secret, and he's holding it over her head.



Mrs. Jeffries and the staff at Upper Edmonton Gardens have hatched a scheme to save her—but when they try to recover the damning evidence from... Read more

Lady Bridget's Diary

By: Maya Rodale

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first novel of Maya Rodale's stunning new series, an American heiress must learn to navigate London society and an infuriatingly irresistible rake . . .Lord Darcy is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper, and horrified that a pack of Americans has inherited one of England's most respected dukedoms. But his... Read more

While the World Is Still Asleep

By: Petra Durst-Benning

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a new series from Petra Durst-Benning, the bestselling author of The Glassblower series.An inspiring historical tale of one woman risking it all for her dreams set in 1890s Berlin.After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new... Read more

The Rock

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The first time Thomas MacGowan saw Elizabeth Douglas, he thought that she was a princess. To the son of the castle blacksmith, the daughter of the powerful Lord of Douglas might as well be. Despite their differences in rank, they become inseparable—until Thom confesses his love, and the humiliation of realizing that Elizabeth has never... Read more

The Rain Sparrow

By: Linda Goodnight

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Linda Goodnight welcomes you back home to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, with another beautiful story full of hope, haunting mystery and the power to win your heart 
Renowned yet private, thriller writer Hayden Winters lives a life colored by lies. As he is deeply ashamed of his past, his hunger for an honest... Read more

Our Own Country

By: Jodi Daynard

Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A love affair tests a new nation’s revolutionary ideals.In 1770s Boston, a prosperous merchant’s daughter, Eliza Boylston, lives a charmed life—until war breaches the walls of the family estate and forces her to live in a world in which wealth can no longer protect her.As the chaos of the Revolutionary War tears her family apart, Eliza finds... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Laetitia Saapron

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights, four miles away from the Grange. In this wild, stormy countryside, Lockwood asks his... Read more

The Girl from Everywhere

By: Heidi Heilig

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo. As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the... Read more

The Immortals

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Narrated by: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this modern-day "lively re-imagining of classical mythology" (Deborah Harkness), when a string of women are murdered in an ancient pagan ritual, Selene DiSilvia -- known by some as the goddess Artemis -- hears their cries for help and takes up her bow once more.

Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself.

The city sleeps.... Read more

Free Men

By: Katy Simpson Smith

Narrated by: Michael Curran-Dorsano, William Duffy, William ...

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions—an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian—who are being tracked down for murder.In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now... Read more

The Daughters of Palatine Hill

By: Phyllis T. Smith

Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio, Joyce Bean & Amy McFadden

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years after Emperor Augustus’s bloody defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome. To his only child, Julia, he brings an unlikely companion—Selene, the daughter of the conquered Egyptian queen and her lover.Under the watchful eye of Augustus’s wife, Livia, Selene struggles to accept her new home among her parents’... Read more

No Shred of Evidence

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this absorbing new entry in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is caught up in a twisted web of vengeance and murder.On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have been accused of the crime. A shocked father calls in a favor at the... Read more

A Question of Inheritance

By: Elizabeth Edmondson

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

December 1953Hugo Hawksworth is on the tail of rogue Cold War agents at a top-secret government facility, while back home at Selchester Castle they’re awaiting the arrival of the new Earl—an American, the long-lost son of the murdered Lord Selchester.The town of Selchester, rich in scandal and gossip, is unsure what to make of the Earl or his... Read more

She Tempts the Duke

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Faye Adele

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heath steals your heart, then takes you on a journey that will leave you torn between tears and joy.”
—Christina DoddNew York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath writes sweet temptations—richly, deliciously passionate, high concept historical romance in the vein of Lisa Kleypas and Liz Carlyle. With She Tempts the Duke, Heath kicks off... Read more

Rattle His Bones

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination—and murderIn the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day—with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be... Read more

The Heart of Love

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A tantalizing Regency romance from bestselling author Barbara Cartland“I will not marry a man I do not love!” When Lady Verena’s widowed father suddenly remarries, she finds that her stepmother is anxious to make a match of convenience for her new stepdaughter and produces a suitor who repels her. Verena has always sworn that when she marries,... Read more

The Richness of Love

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Strathcarrons have lived in splendor in Lednock Castle in Scotland for many generations, but they fall on hard times when the family fortune is depleted.An American guest at the castle, Larry Harwood, persuades the Earl of Strathcarron to travel to New York with him to make his fortune. Six months later, the earl returns a broken man, having... Read more

The Passenger

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This supernatural thriller from F. R. Tallis takes listeners beneath the wartime seas of the stormy North Atlantic in 1941, where not all those on board are invited.1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is... Read more

Loki

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A warrior with a haunted past and the lass who vows to love him forever.
Loki Grant’s first memories are of living in a crate behind an inn in Ayr, struggling to survive. Clan Grant saved him from his lonely existence and took him in as one of their own. But though the Highlands have become his home and he loves his adopted parents, Brodie and... Read more

Desert Raiders

By: Shaun Clarke

Narrated by: Seån Barrett

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS face the might of Rommel’s army and win? In the North African desert in 1941 the war is being won by the brilliant German commander General Rommel, and the British are in retreat on all fronts. A young British army lieutenant, David Stirling, believes that the... Read more

Behind Iraqi Lines

By: Shaun Clarke

Narrated by: Josh Cohen

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive the inferno of Operation Desert Storm? August 1990, and Iraqi tanks are rolling into Kuwait, putting one quarter of the world’s oil reserves at risk. So begins Operation Desert Storm. As specialists in desert warfare, the legendary SAS are plunged into a... Read more

Scandalous Endeavors

By: Amanda Mariel

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bound by Duty, Ignited by Passion: In a world of opulence and constraint, Lady Amelia must navigate tradition and desire, as a daring plan to secure an English lord entwines her fate with the enigmatic Duke of Goldstone, leading to a scandalous journey of love, secrets, and self-discovery.
In the elegant backdrop of 18th-century English... Read more

Ragged Rose

By: Dilly Court

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming novel from Dilly Court, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. With the fate of her family in her hands, Rose has to make a terrible choice. Be thrown onto the streets without a penny to her name, or watch her loved ones fall into ruin . . . Rose is keeping a dreadful secret, and... Read more

Mission to Argentina

By: David Monnery

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent the launch of Exocet missiles at the British Task Force? May 1982: as the British Task Force prepares to retake the Falkland Islands, a lone Sea King helicopter makes an apparently forced landing in the southernmost reaches of Chile. The only threat to the... Read more