Historical Fiction audiobooks

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North.

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.

No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with... Read more

Strange Bodies

By: Marcel Theroux

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson & Veida Dehmlow

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Whatever this is, it started when Nicholas Slopen came back from the dead.

In a locked ward of a notorious psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months, yet nothing can make this man change his story. What begins as a tale of... Read more

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ONE LIFETIME.
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.
No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes.
Until now.
As Harry nears the end of his... Read more

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

By: Zachary Lazar

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This stunning novel by the author of Sway is another "brilliant portrayal of life as a legend" (Margot Livesey).

In 1972, the American gangster Meyer Lansky petitions the Israeli government for citizenship. His request is denied, and he is returned to the U.S. to stand trial. He leaves behind a mistress in Tel Aviv, a Holocaust survivor named... Read more

Love Comes Calling

By: Siri Mitchell

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellis Eaton has always felt she's been a disappointment to her stuffy, traditional Boston family. Her sights are set on something entirely different: Hollywood. Though she's captured the eye of Griffin Phillips, she knows that "dutiful wife" is one role she can't picture herself playing--even if he makes her head spin and her heart quicken.... Read more

The King Arthur Trilogy Book Three

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Merlin Prophecy, the historical trilogy that " appeals to those who thrill to Game of Thrones" ( Kirkus Reviews )-- the third installment in the epic, action-packed story of King Arthur. Celtic Britain is on the brink of collapse, and the kingdom' s bloodiest days are upon it. For many years, the people of Briton have... Read more

The Temporary Gentleman

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Frank Grimes

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. In 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has wandered the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a... Read more

The Girl Who Came Home

By: Hazel Gaynor

Narrated by: Connor Kelly-Eiding & Alana Kerr

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.Ireland, 1912. Fourteen members of a small village set... Read more

Reign of Ash

By: Gail Z. Martin

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Survival is just the beginning. Blaine McFadden endured six long years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. War devastated his homeland of Donderath and destroyed the magic on which the Ascendant Kingdoms relied. Now Blaine and a small group of fellow exiles have returned to a lawless wasteland, where unrestrained magic storms... Read more

Blood and Ashes

By: Scott James Magner

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.As Mt. Vesuvius rumbles ominously, Pompeiian Councilor Valerius needs assistance in performing rituals to... Read more

Confessions of a Royal Bridegroom

By: Vanessa Kelly

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Some men are born into scandal. Others pursue it with a passion. Griffin Steele, secret son of the Duke of Cumberland, is guilty on both counts. Yet somehow London's most notorious scoundrel has been saddled with an abandoned baby boy, and with the unflappable, intriguing spinster summoned to nurse him.



Justine Brightmore may be a viscount's... Read more

The Winter Bride

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Damaris Chance's unhappy past has turned her off the idea of marriage forever. But her guardian, Lady Beatrice Davenham, convinces her to make her coming out anyway—and have a season of carefree, uncomplicated fun.



When Damaris finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake Freddy Monkton-Coombes, she has no choice but... Read more

The Greatest Lover Ever

By: Christina Brooke

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, exuberant, and stubborn Georgiana Black has more spirit than sense—which she learns when an ultimatum to the Earl of Beckenham at a London ball ends their engagement. Six years later, Georgie is less concerned with impending spinsterhood than with making sure her young sister doesn't make the same mistakes she did. But soon Georgie... Read more

Meet Me Under the Clock

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When the Second World War breaks out, Sylvia is still dreaming of her forthcoming marriage to fiancé Ian while Audrey jumps at the career opportunities the WAAF throws her way.

Audrey joins the ranks at RAF Cardington but soon finds that her new freedom... Read more

Where Earth Meets Sky

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness and loss. At eighteen she applies for a post as nanny with the family of a Captain Fairford, a soldier in Ambala, north India and his highly strung wife Susan. Lily is drawn into the... Read more

Frog Music

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room.

San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City.

Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at... Read more

Fairfield Hall

By: Margaret Dickinson

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.

Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annabel, shall marry into the nobility. A fish merchant and self-made man, he has only his wealth to buy his way... Read more

The Duke Next Door

By: Celeste Bradley

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The dangerously beautiful Deirdre Cantor is determined to inherit her grandfather's vast fortune. All she needs is to marry a duke . . . and be the first granddaughter to walk down the aisle. After all, she has always dreamed of becoming a member of the haute ton. So when the proper Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven and future Duke of... Read more

London's Last True Scoundrel

By: Christina Brooke

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Physically reckless, irrepressibly roguish, and poised on the brink of ruin, Jonathon Westruther, Earl of Davenport, returns from the dead only to throw himself into dissipation. Until he meets his worst nightmare: a straitlaced former schoolteacher he can't get out of his head. He resolves to seduce the delightful Miss Hilary deVere by fair... Read more

The Misbegotten

By: Katherine Webb

Narrated by: Jacqueline King

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Bath, 1821.

Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn.

Reclusive Jonathan Alleyn is a man tormented by the disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Alice.

Starling, foundling child and now servant, is convinced that Alice, the woman she loved... Read more

The Crimson Ribbon

By: Katherine Clements

Narrated by: Katie Scarfe

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the real figure of the fascinating Elizabeth Poole, The Crimson Ribbon is the mesmerising story of two women's obsession, superstition and hope.

May Day 1646. The Civil War is raging and what should be a rare moment of blessing for the town of Ely takes a brutal turn. Ruth Flowers is left with little choice but to flee the household of... Read more

Truth and Fear

By: Peter Higgins

Narrated by: Neil Dickson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city.

But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him,... Read more

Moonlight on My Mind

By: Jennifer McQuiston

Narrated by: Lana J. Weston

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

To ruin a man's life once takes a regrettable mistake. To do so twice takes a woman like Julianne Baxter.Eleven months ago, Julianne's statement to the authorities wrongly implicated Patrick, the new Earl of Haversham, in his older brother's death. The chit is as much trouble as her red hair suggests, and just as captivating. Now she has... Read more

Empress of the Night

By: Eva Stachniak

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of Hilary Mantel, Alison Weir, and Philippa Gregory, Empress of the Night is Eva Stachniak’s engrossing new novel, told in the voice of Catherine the Great as the Romanov monarch reflects on her ascension to the throne, her rule over the world’s greatest power, and the sacrifices that made her the most feared and commanding... Read more