Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Spring of Kasper Meier

By: Ben Fergusson

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The war is over, but Berlin is a desolate sea of rubble. There is a shortage of everything: food, clothing, tobacco. The local population is scrabbling to get by. Kasper Meier is one of these Germans, and his solution is to trade on the black market to feed himself and his elderly father. He can find anything that people need, for the right... Read more

The Darkest Hour

By: Barbara Erskine

Narrated by: Sandra Duncan

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an... Read more

A Strong Hand to Hold

By: Anne Bennett

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking tale of love and loss in a time of war, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves. Jenny O’Leary is devastated one morning in 1940 when she receives a telegram giving her the dreadful news that one of her brothers has been killed in action. Grief threatens to engulf her, but as an ARP warden, tending... Read more

Artful

By: Peter David

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindly benefactor.But it is his friend, the Artful Dodger, who has the far more intriguing tale, filled with more adventure and excitement than anything boring Oliver could possibly... Read more

Blacklist

By: Jerry Ludwig

Narrated by: Adam J. Rough & John Pruden

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, people point fingers and shout, terrorist! Not long ago, the accusation was, Communist! Many who testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee said they did so out of desperation and fear. Those who refused to speak were fired or blacklisted. Others fled rather than betray friends...or their belief in American liberty. David... Read more

The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry comes a gripping mystery featuring intrepid spy and code breaker Maggie Hope. This time, the fallout of a deadly plot comes straight to her own front door.
 
World War II rages on across Europe, but Maggie Hope has finally found a moment of rest on the... Read more

The Wickedest Lord Alive

By: Christina Brooke

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years ago, a tall, handsome stranger entered Lizzie Allbright's bedchamber and consummated a marriage of the utmost necessity. The Marquis of Steyne had agreed to wed and bed Lord Bute's admittedly lovely daughter to pay off his mother's gambling debts. But once the deed was done, Steyne's lawfully wedded wife vanished into the night.




Years... Read more

The String Diaries

By: Stephen Lloyd Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.

The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night--her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied... Read more

The Care and Management of Lies

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained—by Thea’s passionate... Read more

Flight of the Sparrow

By: Amy Belding Brown

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way."Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by... Read more

Eden in Winter

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson—the author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness—returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace.Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized... Read more

The Pecan Man

By: Cassie Dandridge Selleck

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pecan Man is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category.In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him... Read more

The Escape

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this poignant novel of longing and salvation, a hopeful widow and a resilient war hero discover the promise of love’s magic and new beginnings.

After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful... Read more

Grand Central

By: Karen White, Jenna Blum, Sarah Jio, Melanie Ben...

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform...



A Holocaust survivor works at the Oyster Bar, where a customer reminds him of his late mother...



A Hollywood hopeful anticipates her first screen test and a chance at stardom in the Kissing Room...



On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York... Read more

Vengeance Is Mine

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In October of 1967, the Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small east Texas community of Center Springs simply want to live their lives as quietly as possible. But a handsome darkness in the form of Las Vegas gangster Anthony Agrioli has left the business to hide out in their tiny backwater... Read more

Take Me Home

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Dani Cervone

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. As a war rages on, a new era of hope takes root . . . and one young woman faces a difficult choice for the chance at a love of a lifetime.

"There is nothing better than Dorothy Garlock at her best" --Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author

Take Me Home

Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride.... Read more

Das Buch der Königin

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Birgitta Assheuer

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Frau, deren Träume ganze Königreiche umfassen Es ist die berühmteste Geburtsszene des Mittelalters: Konstanze, Frau des deutschen Kaisers Heinrich VI., vierzigjährig, als unfruchtbar verschrien, hochschwanger. Um jeden Preis muss sie die Legitimität ihres Kindes sicherstellen. Und so bringt sie ihren Sohn öffentlich, auf dem Marktplatz von... Read more

Highlander Avenged

By: Laurin Wittig

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the English king tried to wrest it away, the Highland Targe—ancient relic and protector of Scottish lands—still lies safely in the hands of Clan MacAlpin. But for how long?Jeanette MacAlpin trained her entire life to become the next Guardian of the Targe, but that duty has now fallen to her cousin Rowan—a duty Rowan can’t seem to... Read more

To Marry a Scottish Laird

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Kieron Elliott

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns to the Highlands of Scotland in her hottest new historical romance yet!Highlander Campbell Sinclair is no stranger to battle, so when he sees a lad attacked by bandits, he jumps into the fray. He didn't count on being stabbed. Grateful to the boy for nursing him back to health, Cam offers to... Read more

Suddenly, Love

By: Aharon Appelfeld

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran. Retired, he lives alone and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young... Read more

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

By: Genevieve Valentine

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo, the firstborn, The General to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of their father's townhouse and into cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their controlling father.... Read more

Cop Town

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force... Read more

My Lady, My Lord

By: Katharine Ashe

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BLUESTOCKING


Lady Corinna Mowbray has three passions: excellent books, intelligent conversation, and disdaining the libertine Earl of Chance.



THE RAKE


Lord Ian Chance has three pleasures: beautiful women, fast horses, and tormenting high-and-mighty Corinna Mowbray.



Neighbors for years, Corinna and Ian have been at each other's throats since they... Read more

The Wandering Harlot

By: Iny Lorentz

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1410 in Constance, Germany, the beautiful Marie Schärer’s luxurious life as a merchant’s daughter is destroyed when her ambitious father arranges her marriage to a lawyer from the Black Forest named Rupert Splendidus. Her childhood sweetheart warns her of the attorney’s sly character and is tragically proven right the day before the wedding,... Read more