Historical Fiction audiobooks

Polly

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

She was a bewitching young girl, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her sights on a duke and joined the firm of Westerman's as a stenographer. Surely one of that noble family would notice her, and then all her dreams would... Read more

The Dreadful Debutante

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Arranging a season for an unruly young lady whose habit is to enter drawing rooms by sliding down banisters presents a challenge at best—especially since the hoydenish Mira has a sister of incomparable grace and beauty.Mira isn’t at all daunted by the local society and its ridiculous marriage mart. Her heart belongs to Lord Charles, who has been... Read more

Penelope

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Penelope—golden haired, azure eyed, fresh from the country—has stolen the heart of the most desirable Earl of Hestleton. Rich and startlingly handsome, he is the most eligible lord in the realm. He had planned to toy with her affections and then toss her aside, but when the earl discovers that he is a pawn in her aunt's social-climbing scheme,... Read more

The Winter Crown

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Katie Scarfe

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times
'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home
'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
A loving mother. A betrayed wife. A queen beyond compare.

1154
Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful women in Europe,... Read more

Der Palast der Borgia (Ungekürzt)

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Anke Stoppa

Length: 22 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Rom, im August 1492. Schon am frühen Morgen ächzt die Stadt unter der Gluthitze des Sommers. Der Lärm in der engen Gasse lässt Lucrezia aus dem Schlaf fahren. Kann es wahr sein, was der Bote schreit? Ihr Vater, Rodrigo Borgia, der neue Papst? Die Nachricht stellt Lucrezias Leben und das ihrer drei Brüder auf den Kopf: Plötzlich sind sie die... Read more

Neverhome

By: Laird Hunt

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a... Read more

Hunt for the Bamboo Rat

By: Graham Salisbury

Narrated by: Greg Watanabe

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gripping saga of wartime survival.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred
 
Based on a true story, this World War II novel by Scott O’Dell Award winner Graham Salisbury tells how Zenji, 17, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese.


Zenji Watanabe was born in Hawaii. He’s an American, but the Japanese wouldn’t know it by the look of him.... Read more

Perfidia

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 28 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER     
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

The... Read more

Blood on the Water

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us to London’s grand Mayfair mansions, where the arrogant masters of the Western world hold sway—and to the teeming... Read more

The Monogram Murders

By: Sophie Hannah & Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel... Read more

The Sun Is God

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Colonial New Guinea, 1906. A small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members, Max Lutzow, has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of... Read more

Henna House

By: Nomi Eve

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Yemen in 1920: after passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela Damari's situation looks dire until her uncle arrives from a faraway city, bringing with him a cousin and aunt who... Read more

The Falcon Throne

By: Karen Miller

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 35 hours

Abridged: No

When kingdoms clash, every crown will be tarnished by the bloody price of ambition.

A bastard lord leads a rebellion against his tyrant king -- and must live with the consequences of victory.

A royal widow plots to win her daughter's freedom from the ambitious lords who would control them both.
An orphaned prince sets his eyes on regaining his... Read more

The King's Curse

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 24 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the acclaimed Starz series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England.

As an heir to the Plantagenets, Margaret is seen by the King’s mother, the Red Queen, as a rival to the Tudor claim... Read more

Under the Blood-Red Sun

By: Graham Salisbury

Narrated by: Greg Watanabe

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty.

World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.

But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are... Read more

The Thief Taker

By: C.S. Quinn

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

1666. London burns. And a killer tracking a dangerous secret fuels his own deadly blazes…Charlie Tuesday is the city’s best thief taker. And as fire ravages London he’s on the hunt for a killer fanning the flames. But time is running out. Each death brings the murderer closer to the ultimate prize—a fabled chest with the power to destroy... Read more

Empire Girls

By: Suzanne Hayes & Loretta Nyhan

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Ivy and Rose Adams may be sisters, but they're nothing alike. Rose, the eldest, is the responsible one, while Ivy is spirited and brazen. After the unexpected death of their father, the women are left to reconcile the estate, but they make a shocking discovery: not only has their father left them in financial ruin, but he has also bequeathed... Read more

Angel's Devil

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The lovely Angelique Graham knows her strengths—and patience is not one of them. So instead of waiting nine months to wed her beloved Simon, as per her overprotective parents' edict, Angelique decides to use Simon's cousin, the dashing Lord Faring—rake of all rakes—who has just returned from war, to throw her parents into a panic.




Though... Read more

Covenant with Death

By: John Harris

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

They joined for their country. They fought for each other.

When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his Sheffield friends immediately flock to Kitchener's call. Amid waving flags and boozy celebration, the three men - Fen, his best friend Locky and self-assured Frank, rival for the woman Fen loves - enlist as volunteers to take on the Germans... Read more

Daughter of Time

By: Sarah Woodbury

Narrated by: Laurel Schroeder

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Time travel to medieval Wales!A medieval man with an uncertain destiny, Llywelyn, the Prince of Wales, faces treachery and deceit at the hands of friends and foes alike. When Meg slips through time into medieval Wales, the pair must navigate the shifting allegiances that threaten the very existence of Wales–and create their own history that... Read more

A Light in the Wilderness

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him. Nancy... Read more

Tucker

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“If a man won’t fight for what is rightly his, then he ain’t much account.” With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to... Read more

Age of Iron

By: Angus Watson

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE MADE.

Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary traveling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people.

First Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who has vowed revenge on the king for her sister's... Read more

The Rest Is Silence

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top secret rehearsal for the approaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is... Read more