Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Hopscotch Summer

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1930s Birmingham, in the impoverished district of Nechells, a young girl bravely endeavours to hold her family together in trying times. A Hopscotch Summer is an emotional journey of determination and resilience from Annie Murray.

Read by Penelope Freeman (My Daughter, My Mother)

Emma Brown is a young girl whose usual cheerful spirit is... Read more

Dead in the Water

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

May the best man die!In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latest writing assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine.Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a... Read more

Call Nurse Millie

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1945 and, as the troops begin to return home, the inhabitants of London attempt to put their lives back together. For 25-year-old Millie, a qualified nurse and midwife, the jubilation at the end of the war is short-lived as she tends to the needs of the East End community around her. But while Millie witnesses tragedy and brutality in her... Read more

The Emperor's Knives: Empire VII

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh novel in Anthony Riches' acclaimed Empire sequence brings Marcus Aquila back to Rome, hunting the men who destroyed his family.

But the revenge he craves may cost him and those around him dearly.

The young centurion's urge to exact his own brutal justice upon the shadowy cabal of assassins who butchered his family means that he must... Read more

The Bells of Bournville Green

By: Annie Murray

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys.

Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister... Read more

Silver Storm

By: Cynthia Wright

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the captivating novel hailed as "Romance the way it was meant to be."~ Sinfully handsome André Raveneau is the Revolutionary War’s most reckless privateer captain when Devon Lindsay stows away aboard his ship after her Connecticut town has been burned by the British. Raveneau cynically agrees to... Read more

Hannibal: The Patrol

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story.

WINTER 218 BC

In Cisalpine Gaul, a Carthaginian patrol is moving stealthily through thick woodland.

It’s led by Hanno, one of Hannibal’s young officers, and his second-in-command Mutt.

Famished and cold, they are making for a town full of... Read more

Wake

By: Anna Hope

Narrated by: Anna Hope

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
 
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
 
London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of... Read more

Willow

By: Tonya Cherie Hegamin

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1848.On one side of the Mason-Dixon Line lives fifteen-year-old Willow, her master’s favorite servant. She’s been taught to read and has learned to write. She is permitted to spend much of her time riding her horse to the riverbank, where she writes letters to her dead mother. On the other side of the line is seventeen-year-old Cato, a... Read more

The Runestone Incident

By: Neve Maslakovic

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

We found ten men, red from blood and dead…At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past.In this much anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time travel series, St. Sunniva University’s Julia Olsen and Nate Kirkland find themselves hot on the trail of a... Read more

Let the Drum Speak

By: Linda Lay Shuler

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

She is called Antelope, the daughter of Kwani— She Who Remembers. Possessed of the same mystical powers that made her mother beloved and feared, Antelope takes her infant daughter and follows her wandering mate to the fabled city of the Great Sun. Here, her beauty arouses the lust of the city’s supreme ruler—a man who will become her most... Read more

She's Leaving Home

By: William Shaw

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.

The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey... Read more

She's Leaving Home

By: William Shaw

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.

The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey... Read more

Fools' Gold

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

All that glitters may well be gold in the third book in the Order of Darkness series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory.

Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde travel to Venice just in time for Carnival. Amid the masks, parties, and excitement, the romantic attraction between the two reaches a new... Read more

The Homesman

By: Glendon Swarthout

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early frontier life through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.

Now a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of... Read more

The Winter People

By: Jennifer McMahon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Kathe Mazur

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable.

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that... Read more

Return of the Border Warrior

By: Blythe Gifford

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Word in the Royal Court has spread that the wild Scottish borders are too unruly. Upon the King's command, John Brunson must return home Once part of a powerful border clan, John has not set eyes on the Brunson stone tower in years. With failure never an option, he must persuade his family to honor the king's call for peace. To succeed, John... Read more

Midnight Rider

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hired to help steal $50,000 in gold bullion, ex-Pinkerton Avrial "Rock" Rochenbach must earn the trust of some of the West's most notorious outlaws-while protecting his true identity as an undercover U.S. Secret Service Agent... Read more

The Mangle Street Murders

By: M. R. C. Kasasian

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a charming, evocative, and sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and WatsonAfter her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country's most famous private detective. It is 1882, and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest... Read more

The Big Both Ways

By: John Straley

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

John Straley brings his storytelling abilities to a new level in this completely original period crime story.It's 1935, and Slip Wilson, rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker, has quit his job at a logging camp, hoping to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in a... Read more

Somerset

By: Leila Meacham

Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A headstrong woman goes against her wealthy family’s wishes in this stunning prequel to Roses, perfect for fans of Gone with the Wind.

Born into the most influential family in 1830s South Carolina, Jessica Wyndham is expected to look appealing, act with decorum, and marry well. However, her abolitionist opinions and unflagging sense of justice... Read more

Walking on Air

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From " incomparable" (Fresh Fiction) author Catherine Anderson comes a novel of lost souls, second chances, and love everlasting.... Random, Colorado, is just another stop on the road for solitary gunslinger Gabriel Valance. Known for his drinking, gambling, and womanizing, he prefers to remain a stranger to anyone who crosses his path. But when... Read more

I Always Loved You

By: Robin Oliveira

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas’s great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination... Read more

The Perfume Collector

By: Kathleen Tessaro

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d’Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious... Read more