Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mrs. Jeffries Takes Stock

By: Emily Brightwell

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Witherspoon has been assigned another tough case. The latest murder victim has possibly swindled his shareholders out of a huge sum of money. When the businessman is found with a bullet through is chest, all them are suspects, but no one is telling the truth. It is up to Mrs. Jeffries and the household staff at Upper Edmonton Gardens... Read more

Wolf Bride

By: Elizabeth Moss

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1536. Lord Wolf, hardened soldier and expert lover, has come to King Henry VIII's court to claim his new bride: a girl who has intrigued him since he first saw her riding across the Yorkshire moors.

Eloise Tyrell, now lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn, has other ideas. She has no desire to submit to a man she barely knows and... Read more

50 Ways to Ruin a Rake

By: Jade Lee

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mellie Smithson is trapped in the country with no suitors and no prospects on the horizon except, perhaps, the exasperating—although admittedly handsome—guest of her father. Unwilling to settle, Mellie will do anything to escape to London . . .



Trevor Anaedsley's grandfather has cut off his funds until he gets engaged. Beset by creditors, Trevor... Read more

Love Beyond Time

By: Bethany Claire

Narrated by: Lily Collingwood

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A hunky Scottish laird. A time-traveling teacher. A tragic history only she can prevent.Schoolteacher Brielle "Bri" Montgomery wonders where all the good men have gone. They certainly don't waltz through her meticulous life in Texas. Venturing out of her comfort zone, she joins her archaeologist mother on a dig in Scotland… and finds herself... Read more

Paradise Sky

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick.

Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies,... Read more

Wildfire in His Arms

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Tad Branson

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's passionate new tale about a gunfighter running from his past who finds his future when he escorts a beautiful outlaw to her hanging. Featuring one of Lindsey's most intriguing heroes: the dangerous and mysterious Degan Grant from One Heart to Win. With his work in Montana completed now that... Read more

A Paradise on Earth

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Milton should have been a happy man with an ancient title and a magnificent estate. But he is deep in debt and haunted by memories of the Crimean War, where he had once been a soldier. To take his mind off the past, he becomes the manager of a hotel in Brighton called the Paradise Hotel. He decides to abandon his title and pass simply as... Read more

Love Wins in Berlin

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Anthony Wren

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling romance author Barbara Cartland gives listeners a tale of passion and intrigue in Love Wins in Berlin.Simona Bell, the lovely daughter of Lord Belgrave, has been invited by her friend Karoline von Honentaal to stay with her family in Berlin. Simona finds that Karoline’s father, the Baron, owns an amazing collection of art, which... Read more

Lady Elizabeth

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth lives a charmed life, or so it seems. Despite her noble relations and all the wealth and privileges entailed, there's something missing.During his stay at Netherfield Park in Hertfordshire, Darcy learns of a tragedy that befell the Bennets, a family from a neighboring estate, over a decade prior. One of the Bennet daughters vanished in... Read more

American Meteor

By: Norman Lock

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on... Read more

Only A Promise

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The next Survivors’ Club novel from the New York Times bestselling author.

The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall.

Now, for one of them, striking a most unusual bargain will change his life forever …

Ralph Stockwood prides himself... Read more

Second Street Station

By: Lawrence H. Levy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical mystery featuring the witty and wily Mary Handley, the first woman detective in Brooklyn, as she tries to prove herself in a man's world while solving a high profile murder.
 
Mary Handley is a not your typical late-nineteenth century lady. She's fiery, clever, daring—and she’s not about to conform to the gender norms of the day. Not... Read more

The Truth According to Us

By: Annie Barrows

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee, Tara Sands, Julia Whelan, Cassan...

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do what’s right. 
 
Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled... Read more

Darwin's Watch

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space... Read more

Under a Dark Summer Sky

By: Vanessa Lafaye

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

SUMMERTIME is set in Florida in 1935 in a small town struggling with the effects of the Depression, and at the time of the great hurricane. The racially charged narrative swirls around Missy, with her courageous dedication to duty, who works for the Kincaid family; Henry, a long absent WWI soldier who still loves Missy, the girl he left behind;... Read more

Watch the Lady

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton & Roy McMillan

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From “a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction” (People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux—the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney’s famous sonnets even while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth.

Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeth’s court where she and her brother, the... Read more

The Heiress of Linn Hagh

By: Karen Charlton

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Northumberland, 1809: A beautiful young heiress disappears from her locked bedchamber at Linn Hagh.The local constables are baffled and the townsfolk cry ‘witchcraft’.The heiress’s uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant, Constable Woods, who face one of their most challenging cases: The servants and local gypsies aren’t... Read more

A Sorceress of His Own

By: Dianne Duvall

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the day Lord Dillon earned his spurs, rumors of his savagery on the battlefield have preceded him into every room, stilling tongues and sparking fear. Weary of battle, he wishes only to find a woman he can wed who will approach him not with fear, but with the tenderness that has been absent from his life for so long. Yet only the wisewoman... Read more

The Man In The Wooden Hat

By: Jane Gardam

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig

'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that... Read more

A Poisonous Plot

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from upstarts rivals such as Zachary Hostel. Their problems are made no easier by the hostility of the town's inhabitants who favour the university moving away to the Fens.

This simmering tension threatens... Read more

The Book of Human Skin

By: Michelle Lovric

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens, Multiple Narrators & Peter ...

Length: 20 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In 18th Century Venice Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines, and aided by a servant, a painter, a skin-obsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her... Read more

The Silk Tree

By: Julian Stockwin

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Forced to flee Rome, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land upon its shores lonely and penniless. Needing to make money fast, they plot a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres, Nicander and Marius must... Read more

Old Filth

By: Jane Gardam

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig

'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina... Read more

Pastel Orphans

By: Gemma Liviero

Narrated by: Whitney Dykhouse, Nick Podehl & Amy McFadden

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1930s Berlin, young Henrik, the son of a Jewish father and Aryan mother, watches the world around him crumbling: people are rioting in the streets, a strange yellow star begins appearing in shop windows, and friends are forced to move—or they simply disappear.After his father becomes gravely ill, Henrik and his little sister, Greta, are taken... Read more