Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Butterfly Boy

By: Tony Klinger

Narrated by: James Whale

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Butterfly Boy takes the reader on a dramatic, sweeping journey through two World Wars in Germany and races on around the globe throughout that tumultuous century. The Butterfly Boy is the story of Arnie, who as a small boy loses the use of his arms through polio, yet conquers this to grow up to be the "greatest mouth painter in the world."... Read more

Brooklyn on Fire

By: Lawrence H. Levy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn’s most witty and daring detective risks everything to solve a dangerous triple-murder case

After closing a case with the Brooklyn Police Department, Mary Handley is determined to become an official detective in her own right. And when Emily Worsham shows up at her new office— convinced her uncle John Worsham was murdered and desperate... Read more

The Forgotten Room

By: Karen White, Beatriz Williams & Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett & Susan Bennett

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration-a rich, multigenerational novel of love and loss that spans half a century.... 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is... Read more

Warriors of the Storm

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The ninth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.A fragile peace reigns in Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. King Alfred’s son Edward and formidable... Read more

Toward the Sea of Freedom

By: Sarah Lark

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side.Soon, they... Read more

Moonlight Over Paris

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over.Spring, 1924Recovering from a broken wartime engagement and a serious illness that left... Read more

By King’s Command - Abridged

By: Linda Lea Castle

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast production based on the novel by award-winning, bestselling author Linda Lea CastleThe year is 1208, a time when most heiresses do their duty. But not Elsbeth of Camley, for she would rather join a holy order than be bartered off and expected to breed well and often. Elsbeth flees to Lambeth Abbey with her dower coin and unwittingly... Read more

The Siege

By: Nick Brown

Narrated by: Nigel Peever

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

270 AD
Rome has ruled Syria for over three centuries. But now the weakened empire faces a desperate threat: Queen Zenobia of Palmyra has turned her Roman-trained army against her former masters and the once invincible legions have been crushed. Arabia, Palestine and Egypt have fallen and now Antioch, Syria's capital, stands exposed.
Cassius... Read more

The Imperial Banner

By: Nick Brown

Narrated by: Nigel Peever

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

272 AD

The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt.

Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire, has fallen into Roman hands and is to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace treaty. But on the eve of the signing the banner goes missing.

Recalled to Syria, imperial... Read more

The Words In My Hand

By: Guinevere Glasfurd

Narrated by: Abigail Hollick

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

'EXCELLENT... AN ENTIRELY UNSENTIMENTAL LOVE STORY WITH A MEMORABLE AND ENGAGING HEROINE' - The Times (Book of the Month)

For fans of The Miniaturist and Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Words in My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr Sergeant the English bookseller. When a... Read more

The Chelsea Strangler

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyone with sufficient means has fled the plague-ridden city, its half-deserted streets echoing to the sound of bells tolling the mounting number of deaths. Those who remain clutch doubtful potions... Read more

The Queen's Choice

By: Anne O'Brien

Narrated by: Helen Longworth

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Sunday Times Bestseller England’s Forgotten Queens ‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’-The Times Her children or her crown France, 1399: The Duke of Brittany is dead... Read more

Rosie’s War

By: Kay Brellend

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling wartime drama from the author of The Street, perfect for fans of Pam Weaver and Kitty Neale. Rosie Gardiner is having a tough war. She’s had to leave her job as a nude at the Windmill in Soho after a horrific assault which left her pregnant, and is now living back at home with her recently remarried dad. Despite... Read more

A Carriger Quartet

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: J. Daniel Sawyer, Full Cast, Dawn Phynix & Mere...

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Four original, unabridged, full-cast productions of Gail Carriger's most beloved fantasy short stories:
The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn't, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar A mummified cat, a secret agent, and an aristocrat entangle Alessandro Tarraboti (father of Alexia Tarraboti from the Parasol Protectorate series) in a... Read more

The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: J. Daniel Sawyer & Full Cast

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A short tale of mummies, werewolves, and well-preserved felines set in this Parasol Protectorate prequel!
When Alessandro Tarabotti and his valet, Floote, find themselves in Egypt on the Queen's business, a chance encounter with tourists quickly leads to a...situation...with the local mummies. Can Allesandro complete his secret mission before... Read more

Dictator

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Imperium . . . Conspirata . . . and now Dictator—the long-awaited final volume of Robert Harris’s magnificent Ancient Rome Trilogy
 
At the age of forty-eight, Cicero—the greatest orator of his time—is in exile, separated from his wife and children, tormented by his sense of failure, his great power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. And... Read more

The Longest Night

By: Andria Williams

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up

In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to... Read more

Even the Dead

By: Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe

Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Southwest England in the late 1800s, Sense and Sensibility follows the lives of the Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne. When inheritance money from their father does not fall their way, the sisters and their mother must move in with distant relatives. Settling in at Barton Park, the Dashwood sisters discover a new life, filled with new... Read more

Mail Order Brides: Marshall's Bride

By: Susette Williams

Narrated by: Lawrence D. Yaklin

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Marshall’s Bride ~ Book 4
Is Marshall Kincaid getting married? Maybe someone should have told him.
Lizzie Neuman came to America filled with hopes and dreams for her and her husband. His unexpected death left her stranded in a new country. Not having anywhere to turn, she reluctantly responds to an ad for a mail order bride. 
Marshall never planned... Read more

A Wounded Realm

By: K. M. Ashman

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Gruffydd ap Cynan is missing, his army scattered. Twelve long years have passed since the king was taken prisoner and his people think him long dead.In the dirty shadows of Chester Castle, a beaten prisoner looks up from the squalor of the street. Dressed in rags, mocked and pelted with filth, he seems a broken man. Yet deep inside, the desire... Read more

The Anubis Gates

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded penniless in the teeming, thieving London of 1810.Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have... Read more

The House in Quill Court

By: Charlotte Betts

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1813. Venetia Lovell lives by the sea in Kent with her pretty, frivolous mother and idle younger brother. Venetia's father, Theo, is an interior decorator to the rich and frequently travels away from home, leaving his sensible and artistic daughter to look after the family. Venetia designs paper hangings and she and her father often daydream... Read more

This Sceptred Isle Collection 2: 1702 - 1901

By: Christopher Lee

Narrated by: Anna Massey, Peter Jeffrey, Brett Usher, Denys ...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The final five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle.

Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original volumes 6-10:

1702-1760: The First British EmpireThe reign of George I; Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, and the... Read more