Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Forbidden

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Alienist meets The Exorcist in Tallis' novel of psychological suspense, as an ambitious young doctor explores the dangerous border between science and the supernatural.1873. When the ambitious Doctor Paul Cl├®ment takes a job on the island of Saint S├®bastien, he has dreams of finding cures for tropical diseases. After witnessing the... Read more

The World's Oldest Short Stories

By: Herodotus, Theocritus, Apuleius & Petronius

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Many stories have stood the test of time, but this selection have entranced audiences for thousands of years and remain as fresh today as they were when first told. A fascinating collection which gives vivid insights into lives in ancient times and the issues that occupied the people of the day.

Includes tales of ancient Egypt, written to... Read more

My Dear Duchess

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Handsome, dashing Henry Wright, the Duke of Westerland, needed a wife in a desperately short period of time. If he could not find a wife, he would lose the legacy he so desperately desired.Young, lovely, but sheltered Miss Frederica Sayers needed a husband just as much as Henry Wright needed a wife, only she needed a husband to save her from the... Read more

Silken Bonds

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Frederica chafed at the restricted life she lived as the adopted daughter of an infamous bluestocking, she did agree with the philosophy. Until men learned to appreciate intellectual equals, Frederica was better off without them. But her sister's elopement has sparked fires of romance in Frederica's well-educated head, making her ripe for... Read more

The Homecoming

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Will the last Beverley daughter marry for Mannerling?Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitious mother to cast lures for the various owners of their former home. Instead, each one married for... Read more

Bitter Spirits

By: Jenn Bennett

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown's illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act.



Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who's more comfortable with guns than ghosts. Unfortunately for him, he's the recent target of a malevolent hex that renders him... Read more

In the Company of Angels

By: Nicole Mary Kelby

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative tale.Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, where she is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her... Read more

The Boy in His Winter

By: Norman Lock

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's promises to the freed slaves, the crushing... Read more

The Marathon Conspiracy

By: Gary Corby

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicolaos and his partner in investigation Diotima have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. But if Nico was hoping they'd be able to get hitched without a hitch, he was overly optimistic. When they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most famous school... Read more

Faces in the Crowd

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Armando Durán & Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem... Read more

Wicked Designs

By: Lauren Smith

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For too long Miss Emily Parr has been subject to the whims of her indebted uncle and the lecherous advances of his repulsive business partner. Her plan to be done with dominating men forever is simple: find herself a kind husband who will leave her to her books.



It seems an easy enough plan, until she is unexpectedly abducted by an incorrigible... Read more

Children of the Storm

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great War has ended at last. Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, no longer fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses, now free from his dangerous wartime obligations to British Intelligence. Delightful new additions to the growing Emerson family and new wonders waiting to be discovered... Read more

Jack of Spies

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city—Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York—he moonlights... Read more

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Since being named “London’s Lord to Land” by a popular ladies’ magazine, Nicholas St. John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presentsitself, he eagerly jumps—only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he’s ever met!The... Read more

The Lovely and the Lost

By: Page Morgan

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Lauren Kate's Fallen series comes the sequel to The Beautiful and the Cursed,The Lovely and the Lost finds the Waverly sisters in mortal danger and able to trust no one.
   Ingrid and Gabby Waverly moved to France expecting a quiet reprieve from London gossip, but the truth they face in their new home has a sharper--and... Read more

The White Feather

By: Mary Christian Payne

Narrated by: Lesley Parkin

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The White Feather is a poignant, romantic, and sometimes tragic novel set in both the battlefields of World War I France, and in a small, Cotswold village named Claybourne-on-Coln. This engaging novel presents the reader with unforgettable characters, courageous and cowardly, generous and self-serving.

Mary Christian Payne once again takes you to... Read more

To Love a Highlander

By: Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the bastards born to the Stirling court, Sorley the Hawk has never known his mother or father. It's a burning quest he has devoted himself to uncovering at any cost. But as a roguish warrior who serves at the pleasure of the King, his prowess—both on the battlefield and in his bedchamber—is legendary. So when a flame-haired Highland... Read more

Glorious

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: David Carpenter

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872.

We’ve all got mistakes in our past we’d rather forget.

Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that... Read more

Any Duchess Will Do

By: Tessa Dare

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerWhat's a duke to do, when the girl who's perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can't live without?Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to wed this season—or any season—but his diabolical mother abducts him to ""Spinster Cove"" and insists he select a bride from the ladies in residence. Griff decides to teach her a... Read more

Through the Deep Waters

By: Kim Vogel Sawyer

Narrated by: Kate Turnbull

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A past filled with shame can be washed away with a love that conquers all Born to an unloving prostitute in a popular Chicago brothel, timid seventeen-year-old Dinah Hubley was raised amidst the secrets held in every dark, grimy room of her home. Anxious to escape, Dinah pursues her dream of becoming a Harvey Girl, waiting tables along the... Read more

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

By: Louisa Young

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is one of those books that doesn’t leave you, and probably never will.”
—Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs novelsThe onrush of World War I irrevocably intertwines the lives of two young couples in Louisa Young’s epic tale of love in the midst of chaos. Perfect for readers of... Read more

The Oversight

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey

The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other.

Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed... Read more

The Crimson Campaign

By: Brian McClellan

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Just plain awesome" -- Brandon Sanderson
A staggering defeat on the border of Adro and Kez leaves Tamas and his powder mages in grave danger and cut off from all aid. Meanwhile, deadly political games threaten his allies at home.

When invasion looms. . .

Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off... Read more

The Unwitting

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Betrayal comes in many forms ...At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phonecall that overturns the world as she knows it. In... Read more