Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Fifth Heart

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve... Read more

The Ruin of a Rogue

By: Miranda Neville

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Brotherton is sick and tired of being an heiress. She cannot bring herself to marry a fortune hunter. Why can't men like her for her sharp mind and kind heart rather than her impressive dowry? Just when she is about to bow to her fate as a confirmed spinster, she meets the handsome and charming Marcus Lithgow.



It's been years since Marcus... Read more

Inspector of the Dead

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assisinate Queen Victoria.

The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey,... Read more

The Mermaid's Child

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay, and remain an outsider forever, or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a grueling journey that crosses oceans and continents—from... Read more

Tai-Pan

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 32 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell“There can only be one Tai-Pan.”Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He... Read more

The Tapestry

By: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The next page-turnner in the Joanna Stafford series takes place in the heart of the Tudor Court, as the plucky young former novice risks everything to defy the most powerful men in her era.

In the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation, novice Joanna Stafford is summoned back to London to face King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell . . . who have... Read more

Skewed

By: Anne McAneny

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

No birth announcement could top the headlines from the day Janie and Jack Perkins entered the world. As twins born to a mother in a coma—courtesy of a bullet from their father—the sensational story of their birth never quite died down. While Jack still craves the flash of a camera, Janie seeks sanctuary behind the lens—as a crime scene... Read more

Burger’s Daughter

By: Nadine Gordimer

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Burger's Daughter, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer uses a coming-of-age story to explore the complicated political circumstances of modern South Africa.Rosa Burger is a white South African woman in her early twenties trying to uphold the political heritage handed on by her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self. Cast in the... Read more

The World Revolves Around You

By: Matthew Wayne Selznick

Narrated by: Matthew Wayne Selznick

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the Sovereign Era, when the sudden appearance of men and women with remarkable powers -- Sovereigns -- changes the course of history and threatens the balance of power in the late 20th century... and Tony Fallow has a sticky problem: everything that isn't bolted down wants to literally be near him!Fearing he must be a Sovereign, Tony... Read more

Don't Look Now

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller turns up the heat in this sizzling tale of suspense and re-kindled passions set against the blazing skies of Arizona's lush desert landscape -- where a killer is determined to exact his revenge. When hard-working attorney Clare Westbrook learns that her ambulance-chasing boss has been murdered,... Read more

Gut-Shot

By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawn To A Killing Ground. . .$10,000. That's bounty on the head of the most hated man in Texas--the man that Flintlock has been hired to guard. The crime was the brutal murder of a young school-teacher. The verdict was not guilty for lack of evidence. And the suspected killer's first guard was murdered by a shotgun blast. What makes Flintlock... Read more

Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland & Roger Allam

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel.

When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of post-revolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’... Read more

As the Crow Flies

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.

Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit... Read more

A Wilder Rose

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert reimagines the fascinating story of Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, an... Read more

Prudence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a witty adventure about a young woman with rare supernatural abilities travels to India for a spot of tea and adventure and finds she's bitten off more than she can chew.

When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any... Read more

A Love like Blood

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel for adults by hugely acclaimed YA writer Marcus Sedgwick is a gripping saga of love, revenge, and obsession—and vampires.In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself... Read more

Mademoiselle Chanel

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel—the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman’s daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures... Read more

Loving Lord Ash

By: Sally MacKenzie

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Kit, the Marquis of Ashton, is in a sticky wicket. He married young and for love—how naïve. He discovered his mistake the very day of his wedding, but he is saddled now with a wife he's reluctant to trust. And however much evidence he gathers against faithless Jess, he can't seem to prove her guilt to the final judge—his foolish heart.



Jess knows... Read more

A Dangerous Place

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . .  In Jacqueline Winspear‘s  powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies,... Read more

The Empire of the Senses

By: Alexis Landau

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars.“Empire of the Senses is lush, smart, sexy, affecting, interesting, beautifully researched and well made. Spending time in the world of this novel is an absolute pleasure.”... Read more

Journey to the Highlands

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Robbie Grant has always had a way with the lasses, but his warrior's heart is too married to the battlefield to seek out a wife. Then Robbie saves a mysterious beauty from a Norse attacker. He knows little about Caralyn Crauford beyond that she has a damaged past and two wee daughters, but he volunteers to bring her and the lasses to a... Read more

Highland Guard

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Annys MacQueen has no other choice. The deception that enabled her to keep her lands safe is on the verge of being revealed by a cruel kinsman. To shield her young son from the sword and her people from devastation, she must turn to the one man she could never forget.



He lives for duty and honor. So the only way that Sir Harcourt Murray... Read more

The Spook Who Spoke Again

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A short comic masterpiece from Lindsey Davis set in Ancient Rome and featuring Marcus Didius Falco, his children Flavia Albia and Postumus - and one rascally ferret. Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or perhaps eleven. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he worries who will take care of him. He is... Read more

The Dynamite Room

By: Jason Hewitt

Narrated by: Will Thorp

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Accomplished, resonant and surprising (Guardian) -- a debut for fans of Summer of My German Soldier.

In July 1940, eleven-year-old Lydia escapes life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives home to her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty. Lydia settles in though, determined to... Read more