Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Mirk and Midnight Hour

By: Jane Nickerson

Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Gothic thriller and captivating love story set in Civil War Mississippi
 
Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war—a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier... Read more

The Anatomy Lesson

By: Nina Siegal

Narrated by: Nina Siegal, Bruce Mann, Emma Jayne Appleyard, ...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of... Read more

The Fell Sword

By: Miles Cameron

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: 28 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When a mercenary and his company are charged with putting down a local rebellion, the consequences will be larger than they ever imagined in this action-packed sequel to The Red Knight.

Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free.

When the Emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand -- and... Read more

The Fell Sword

By: Miles Cameron

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Miles Cameron weaves a tale of magic and depravity in the sequel to The Red Knight.

Loyalty costs money.
Betrayal, on the other hand, is free.
When the Emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand -- and themselves surrounded by enemies. The country is in revolt, the capital city is besieged and any... Read more

The Highlander

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Anora, the shepherdess, finds a half-naked man in her bed, so what's a woman living alone in a cottage in the Lowlands of Scotland supposed to do? Prod him with her pitchfork to chase him off! Only the man is not just a traveler seeking her bed for a rest-but a wounded Highlander, who fights back, swinging his sword!Niall MacNeill is searching... Read more

The Tea Rose

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 28 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day,... Read more

The King Arthur Trilogy Book Two

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in an exciting, brand-new Arthurian trilogy Twelve long, blood-soaked years, have passed since Artor fulfilled his destiny and was crowned the High King of the Britons. Against all odds, Artor has united Celtic Britain and with a last great campaign, has banished the Saxon scourge. The legend of Camlann has begun. But even as... Read more

How to Ravish a Rake

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Hardwick has one last Season to shake off her wallflower image and make a love match. If she can't, she'll set aside her dreams of romance and return home to a suitor who can provide security-if little else. What she doesn't count on is the inappropriate-and irresistible-attention lavished on her in a darkened library by rake extraordinaire... Read more

Savage Girl

By: Jean Zimmerman

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“An over-the-top romp through 1870s America . . . compulsively readable.” —Oprah.com

Jean Zimmerman’s spectacular follow-up to The Orphanmaster has it all: Gilded Age romance, robber baron excess, detective story suspense, and a compelling female protagonist whom readers will fall in love with.

In 1875, the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy... Read more

The Luckiest Lady in London

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation.



Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord... Read more

World's Fair

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times

The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great... Read more

A King's Ransom

By: Sharon Kay Penman

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 28 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with the vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion.

November 1192. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto... Read more

The Rebel Pirate

By: Donna Thorland

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Boston Harbor, 1775. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition and gold into a country on the knife's edge of war. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the cargo, impound the vessel, and seize the crew. But when one of the ship's boys turns out to be a... Read more

Why Kings Confess

By: C.S. Harris

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian' s past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr.... Read more

The Lightkeeper

By: Susan Wiggs

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Once, the sea took everything he loved…Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories.Now, the sea has given him a second chance.A beautiful stranger... Read more

Billy Bathgate

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering... Read more

The Proving Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he’d won nearly ten thousand ... Read more

Three Brothers

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world - a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates,... Read more

Oathbreaker

By: Martin Jensen

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they’re awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity—and... Read more

Kid Rodelo

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo collect it.  But when he and his men break out and head for the stash, they end up with a pair of unwelcome partners: Rodelo and a beautiful woman with a hidden past.  To get fifty thousand dollars in gold across fifty miles of desert, the desperate band... Read more

Race for the Dying

By: Steven F. Havill

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Where there's fraud, there's murder.A newly minted graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1890, Dr. Thomas Parks heads to the big timber country of Puget Sound to practice trauma medicine. An hour after stepping off the boat, he's nearly crushed to death by a less-than-surefooted mule and finds himself a patient rather than... Read more

The Love of a Lifetime

By: Mary Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Can love survive the worst betrayal of all?

From the moment Elizabeth Nugent arrives to live on his family’s farm in Shropshire, Richard Wilde is in love with her. And as they grow up, it seems like nothing can keep them apart.

But as the Second World War rages, Richard is sent to fight in the jungles of Burma, leaving Elizabeth to deal with a... Read more

Her Perfect Match

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivien Manning, the notorious Mistress Matchmaker, is tired. Tired of the parties, tired of the lovers, tired of being her. So she decides to leave London behind once and for all and start a whole new life.



But before she goes, she must tie up some loose ends, and makes a list that includes a man she's never been fully able to let go—Benedict... Read more

The Queen's Man

By: Rory Clements

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, THE QUEEN'S MAN introduces the Queen's Spy John Shakespeare in Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling series of Tudor spy thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, 'does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times

England is a Judas nest of... Read more