Historical Fiction audiobooks

Sally

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

She was an honored guest in a palatial country home. "Aunt Mabel," lovelorn columnist of Home Chats magazine, had been summoned to prevent the Duchess of Dartware's son, Paul, from a marriage worse than death.Who would have guessed that behind Aunt Mabel's acid pen and ageless wisdom lurked eighteen-year-old Sally Blane—determined to make the... Read more

Lady Lucy’s Lover

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Why don't you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that feckless husband of yours right.""But I don't want a lover. I am in love with my husband."Poor deluded Lucy. She married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunkard, and she refuses to admit that his frequent overnight absences are of significance. It is not until he reveals that Lucy's... Read more

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. 

Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old... Read more

This Laird of Mine

By: Gerri Russell

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire Elliot has two weeks to win the heart of Jules MacIntyre—and then break it. To save her wards from a vicious blackmailer, she dares to enter the laird’s castle, claiming to be the wife he’d recently wed. But no such wife exists!The brooding Jules invented a bride to silence his well-meaning, matchmaking friends, so he never expected her... Read more

Mrs. Hemingway

By: Naomi Wood

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story…Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend.... Read more

The Scoundrel's Seduction

By: Jennifer Haymore

Narrated by: Adrian Lukis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

TEMPTATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS . . .

Undercover agent Sam Hawkins has devoted his life to protecting king and country. So when he receives orders to assassinate a ruthless traitor, he doesn't question his mission. But Sam didn't know his deed had a witness--the beautiful and mysterious betrayer's wife. Now he has no choice but to take her as his... Read more

The Young Man Who Stroked Cats

By: Morley Roberts

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an English novelist and short story writer. In The Young Man Who Stroked Cats, Thomas Meredith finds himself the recipient of a very mysterious and unexpected gift. A Persian kitten in a basket. More mysterious still, the note accompanying it only reads: For the young man who strokes cats.

Thomas is indeed a... Read more

The Box Tunnel

By: Charles Reade

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

"The Box Tunnel" tells the story of a bet between two soldiers, travelling on a train across Britain, in the spring of 1847, that one of them will not manage to kiss one of the two other ladies travelling in the carriage. One of these... Read more

An Idyll of London

By: Beatrice Harraden

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a British writer and suffragette. In An Idyll of London she describes the poignant friendship between two lonely individuals, both of them artists. One is an old man approaching the end of a miserable life, where he has nursed resentment and bitterness towards all around him. The other is a young woman who has... Read more

Malachi's Cove

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful and respected English novelists. Malachi's Cove tells the story of Mally, the granddaughter of an old seaweed collector, who takes over the family trade as her "Dada" becomes too old and infirm to carry on. Mally is plagued by interlopers from local farms who come down to collect... Read more

The Clockmaker of Poissy

By: Stanley John Weyman

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Stanley John Weyman (1855-1928) was an English novelist most famous for his historical romances set in the turmoil of 16th- and 17th-century France.

In this story, when a position is granted to a member of the household of the King's beloved, which M. de Perrot had coveted for his own son, a round of intrigue begins. M. de Perrot enlists the... Read more

Portrait of a Lady

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchantingly sentimental tale of a traveller who finds a very beautiful miniature portrait of a young woman in his temporary lodgings.

Seeking to learn more about the beauty, he eventually comes across some personal papers which reveal the tragedy of her life. Now all he needs to do is find out her identity.... Read more

Theft of Life

By: Imogen Robertson

Narrated by: Dudley Hinton

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1785. When the body of a former West Indies planter is found staked out by St Paul's Cathedral, suspicion falls at once on a runaway slave. But the answer is not that simple. The planter's death brings tragedy for Francis Glass, a freed slave working as a bookseller, and a painful reminder of the past for William Geddings, senior footman... Read more

Highland Wolf

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Annora MacKay senses a disturbing evil in Dunncraig Keep, the estate acquired by her cousin, a cruel and ruthless man. Only her affection for the tiny girl he claims is his daughter stops her from fleeing. Then a mysterious woodcarver arrives at the castle, and she cannot stop thinking—or longing—for him.

Once a laird, now an outcast, James... Read more

Sniper's Honor

By: Stephen Hunter

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this tour de force—part historical thriller, part modern adventure—from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII’s greatest sniper was erased from history…and why her disappearance still matters today.Ludmilla “Mili” Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of... Read more

A Woman Made For Pleasure

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawn to a life of excitement and risk, Lady Millie Aldon made a pact to forsake marriage. But her plans are thrown into chaos when Chase Wentworth returns to town. The lanky lad she remembers from childhood is now the Marquess of Chaselton, possessing an air of mystery Millie can't resist. As Chase moves through London's elite circles, his... Read more

Call of the Kiwi

By: Sarah Lark

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the exhilarating conclusion to the internationally bestselling In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials—and triumphs—in New Zealand and beyond.The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie—who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White... Read more

When Shadows Fall

By: Paul Reid

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

International Book Awards Finalist in Historical FictionStill haunted by the British army’s treatment of soldiers during World War I, Lieutenant Adam Bowen returns to Dublin in 1919—and discovers a new war destroying his hometown. When his well-bred family ignores the violence between Irish revolutionaries and the British government, Adam turns... Read more

My Lord and Spymaster

By: Joanna Bourne

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sebastian Kennett is a self-made man—passionate, adventurous, and powerful; a master trader and international shipper; a man who'll risk everything for a profit.



Jess Whitby grew up on the mean streets of the East End. Her father's a fine rogue and sometime smuggler. His canny trading and her brilliant management have built them a fortune.



Then... Read more

The Lincoln Myth

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours
 
September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from... Read more

The Lincoln Myth - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours
 
September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from... Read more

Sniper's Honor - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this tour de force—part historical thriller, part modern adventure—from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why WWII’s greatest sniper was erased from history…and why her disappearance still matters today.Ludmilla “Mili” Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of... Read more

Surrender the Stars

By: Cynthia Wright

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible rogue in disguise...When renegade Irishman Ryan Coleraine is persuaded to accompany the adventurous Raveneau family to Regency London, to spy for America during the War of 1812, he soon discovers that he must not only pretend to be their son…but also a fashionable dandy.Meanwhile, Lindsay Raveneau, a lovely and independent... Read more

Beyond the Blue Moon

By: Simon R. Green

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Captains Hawk and Fisher, the only honest cops in Haven, are up to their ears in the usual Haven business when a messenger from a far away land finds them and reveals their real identities and mission-- bring a killer to justice and ascend to the throne Read more