Historical Fiction audiobooks

Loving Mr. Darcy

By: Sharon Lathan

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In Loving Mr. Darcy, Darcy and Lizzy venture away from Pemberley to journey through England, finding friends, relatives, fun, love, and an even deeper and more sacred bond along the way.



Having embarked on the greatest adventure of all, marriage and the start of a new life together, now the Darcys take the listener on a journey through a time of... Read more

The Relic Master

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Buckley’s “hilarious, bawdy, and irreverent frolic of a tale” about a sixteenth-century relic hunter and the artist Albrecht Dürer who conspire to fabricate Christ’s burial shroud reads “like Indiana Jones gone medieval” (USA TODAY).

The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures “authentic” religious relics for wealthy and... Read more

The Abduction of Nelly Don

By: Patrice Williams Marks

Narrated by: clay lomakayu

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"With a well-paced plot, mounting tension, and a surprising (real) twist at the end, this is a good book."Historical Novel SocietyBASED ON A TRUE STORY:During the Great Depression, high-profile kidnappings became more and more commonplace. On December 17, 1931, self-made millionaire fashion designer Nell Donnelly becomes the next... Read more

The Scoundrel's Lover

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Danielle O'Farrell

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A hot historical romance from USA TODAY best-selling author Jess MichaelsAnnabelle Flynn is the sister of London's two biggest libertines, and her reaction has been to become the picture of purity. But the sensual nature of her family has not been lost on her, and she is troubled by urges she dare not follow. She ignores the demands of her body... Read more

Longing

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling legend and author of the Survivors' Club series comes a cherished novel about the risks and the compromises that come with falling in love.. Governess and mistress-he wanted her as both.. The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Sian Jones abandoned her heritage to live in a stalwart coal mining community in... Read more

The Hunt

By: Oscar de Muriel

Narrated by: Andy Secombe

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Hunt by Oscar De Muriel, a Christmas tale from the world of Frey & McGray, read by Andy Secombe.

Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly trying time in Edinburgh, Inspector Ian Frey looks forward to a Christmas break at his family's country estate back in England.

But the... Read more

The Very Thought of You

By: Mary Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

1944: Three girls join a touring variety group and travel through Europe, entertaining the troops as World War II draws to a close

In the wake of D-Day three very different women join a touring variety company, performing to factory girls, hospitals and serving troops.

Catherine's husband has been reported missing in action and she needs a job to... Read more

Heart and Home

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

HEART AND HOME is a poignant saga of shop girls in 1930s Liverpool from Lyn Andrews, the Sunday Times bestselling author of FROM LIVERPOOL WITH LOVE and THE HOUSE ON LONELY STREET. Not to be missed by readers of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn.

Cathie Kinrade is all too used to hardship. Growing up on the Isle of Man in the 1930s, she sees her da set... Read more

To Refuse Such a Man

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With two proposals in one day—which offer will Miss Elizabeth Bennet choose? Marriage to the first of the two men would subject her to misery of the acutest kind. Marriage to the other would be merely for the sake of avoiding a scandal. Either would serve the interests of Elizabeth's family, but what of her own wishes?Will Elizabeth reject both... Read more

Ringel, Rangel, Rosen - Abridged

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Ursula Illert

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Abschied vom Paradies - Kirsten Boies Meisterwerk jetzt als Hörbuch Sommer 1961. Tagsüber in der Elbe baden, abends fernsehen. Das muss das Paradies sein! Doch als Karins Freundin ihr ein Buch über jüdische Kinder im Nationalsozialismus leiht, fragt sie sich, ob wirklich keiner der Erwachsenen davon etwas gewusst hat. Ihre Welt wird... Read more

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

By: Jackie Copleton

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding is a heart-wrenching debut novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite pain of love.When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn’t believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished nearly forty years ago during the... Read more

Last Act in Palmyra

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Last Act in Palmyra is the sixth book in the bestselling Falco series by Lindsey Davis. The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He picks up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the chief spy... Read more

Murder on Gramercy Park

By: Victoria Thompson

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

At a summons from detective sergeant Frank Malloy, midwife Sarah Brandt arrives at the elegant home of famed magnetic healer Edmund Blackwell to find his wife in labor—and the good doctor dead from an apparent suicide. Only Malloy sees what no one else wants to: that Blackwell was murdered in his own home.


After a successful delivery, the... Read more

The Fair Maid of Bohemia - Nicholas Bracewell - An Elizabethan Mystery, Book 9 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder turns the journey of a lifetime into a deadly nightmare The plague has struck London once again but so has opportunity for theatre company Lord Westfield's Men. Invited to perform at the wedding celebrations of Sophia Magdalena, the fair maid of Bohemia, the company's bookholder Nicholas Bracewell and his acting troupe begin the long... Read more

The Art of the Engine Driver

By: Steven Carroll

Narrated by: David Linski, Tom Bromhead & Fiona Hardingham

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot summer’s night in the 1950s, the old and the new, diesel and steam, and town and country all collide—and nobody will be left unaffected.As a passenger train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three—Vic, Rita, and their son, Michael—are off to a party. George Bedser has invited the whole neighborhood to... Read more

The Red Storm

By: Grant Bywaters

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Red Storm is the first novel from licensed private-investigator-turned-novelist Grant Bywaters, sure to appeal to fans of PI novels and historical mysteries.Newly-minted private investigator William Fletcher is having trouble finding clientele. He’s not the only man out of work, but his past as a former heavyweight contender with a few shady... Read more

Forbidden

By: Eve Bunting

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In early-nineteenth century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Josie, an orphan, is sent to live with an aunt and uncle on the rocky, stormy northwest coast. Everything and everyone in her new surroundings, including her relatives, is sinister, threatening, and mysterious. She's told that Eli, the young man she's attracted to, is forbidden to her, but... Read more

Home and Away

By: Dean Hughes

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical fiction novel told from the perspective of a son fighting on the battlefields of Europe during World War II and his mother, struggling with worry and uncertainty as she tries to maintain a normal, happy Christmas holidayNorma Hayes has always tried to make Christmas special for her family, but 1944 will make that more difficult with... Read more

Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind

By: Anne Charnock

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

History is storytelling. But some stories remain untold.In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery.In the present day, a copyist painter receives a... Read more

One Rogue at a Time

By: Jade Lee

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

As the illegitimate son of a duke, Bramwell Wesley Hallowsby grew up tough, on the fringes of society, learning to hide his hurt and cynicism with charm and Town polish. He's carved out a place for himself as a mercenary, serving as bodyguard and general strong arm for the peerage. Bram has nothing to lose, and he's exactly what Maybelle... Read more

A Wife by Christmas

By: Callie Hutton

Narrated by: Lara Wells

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

He desperately wants to marry her off and out of his life, but why does no one seem to suit?Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1906 ~ History teacher Ellie Henderson, has been a thorn in High School Principal Max Colbert’s side ever since he took over three months ago. When she’s not flying by his office, late for her class, with books and papers jumbled in her... Read more

House of The Rising Sun

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga.

After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the... Read more

The Rising

By: Ian Tregillis

Narrated by: Chris Kayser

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war.

Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden.

Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of... Read more

Highland Harmony

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Avelina Ramsay despairs that she will never fall in love. Though every lad she meets is entranced by her comeliness, shyness prevents her from speaking with them. Part of what silences her is the fear that beauty is all she has to offer. She longs for something more, for a deeper calling and sense of purpose, for a stronger connection with a... Read more