Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lord Halifax's Ghost Book

By: Lord Halifax

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the hobbies of Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, was the collection of gruesome tales of the supernatural. These stories were told to him by friends, acquaintances and sent to him by strangers, and he duly recorded them in a book over the course of his long life – he lived to be 94. This is the complete collection in one... Read more

Silver City Massacre

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A treacherous journey …Joel McAllister is a lieutenant in the Confederate Army—or at least he was, until Lee surrendered. Now he's determined to get as far away from war as possible, somewhere beyond North and South … and maybe somewhere with some gold: Idaho Territory.Accompanied by his steadfast sergeant, Riley, the two former soldiers travel... Read more

The Pagan Lord

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and his son Edward... Read more

How to Master Your Marquis

By: Juliana Gray

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Three intrepid princesses find themselves targets in a deadly plot against the crown—until their uncle devises a brilliant plan to keep them safe...

Of all her sisters, Princess Stefanie is by far the least amenable to law and order, which is why she’s appalled to find herself masquerading as an unbearably drab clerk for the most honorable... Read more

The Lion and the Rose

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Leila Birch, Maria Elena Infantino & Ronan Vibert

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of The Serpent and the Pearl comes the continuing saga of the ruthless family that holds all of Rome in its grasp, and the three outsiders thrust into their twisted web of blood and deceit . . .

As the cherished concubine of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI, Giulia Farnese has Rome at her feet. But after narrowly... Read more

The Headmistress of Rosemere

By: Sarah E. Ladd

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Regency England, the same time period as Bridgerton and Poldark, Patience Creighton has devoted her life to running her father’s boarding school. But when the enigmatic master of the estate appears at her door, battered and unconscious, the young headmistress suddenly finds her livelihood—and her heart—in the hands of one dangerously handsome... Read more

Robert B. Parker's Bull River

By: Robert Knott

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the New York Times–bestselling series.


After hunting down murderer and bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to Citadel to stand trial. No sooner do they... Read more

The Descent

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of The Hunger delivers a “daring, soaring, and ultimately gut-wrenching” (The New York Times) conclusion to her critically acclaimed Taker Trilogy, bringing Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis.

Dismayed by Adair’s otherworldly powers and afraid of his passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across... Read more

The Moor

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral coach made of bones carrying a woman... Read more

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award–Winning Author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of... Read more

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award

It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a... Read more

All Things Hidden

By: Tracie Peterson & Kimberley Woodhouse

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her family life has been rough ever since her mother, hating Alaska, took Gwyn's younger sister back to Chicago to live. Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan finds his life suddenly... Read more

The Impossible Knife of Memory

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Luke Daniels

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put... Read more

A Letter of Mary

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.

It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an ancient... Read more

The Trouble With Harry

By: Katie MacAlister

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Just what is the trouble with Harry?



1. He is Plum's new husband. Not normally a problem, but when you consider that Harry advertised for a wife, and Plum was set to marry his secretary, there was cause for a bit of confusion.



2. He has a title. Plum has spent the last twenty years hiding from the ton, and now Harry wants her to shine in society?... Read more

The Royal Succession

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land' Louis X is dead, poisoned, murdered, by the hand of Mahaut d’Artois. Her plan is simple – to clear the path to the throne for her son-in-law Philippe. However, there is the small matter of Queen Clemence and her... Read more

The Amber Road

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sixth novel in Harry Sidebottom's bestselling Warrior of Rome historical fiction series, Ballista returns to undertake yet another epic mission—while the Roman Empire reels in chaos around him.In AD 264, the Roman Empire has been torn in two. The western provinces—Gaul, Spain, and Britain—have been seized by Postumus, the pretender to the... Read more

The Tudor Bride

By: Joanna Hickson

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 23 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen, from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride. Perfect for fans of The White Queen. Even the greatest of queens have rules – to break them would cost her dearly… King Henry V’s new French Queen, Catherine, dazzles the crowds in England... Read more

Dancing in the Moonlight

By: Rita Bradshaw

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartbreak and family loyalty collide in Rita Bradshaw's number one bestselling Dancing in the Moonlight, read by actress Anne Dover.

As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers.

Over the following years the Depression tightens its grip.... Read more

Mr. Midshipman Easy

By: Frederick Marryat

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

At fourteen the unworldly, idealistic Jack Easy leaves the luxury of his father's estate in England and sails into a world of action and adventure aboard the sloop of war HMS Harpy. At first Jack finds it hard to stomach the discipline of naval life and, with his mischievous sense of humor, is always getting himself into scrapes. But soon he is... Read more

La vie ardente de Jules César

By: Renée Dunan

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

La vie ardente de Jules César est à la fois un texte historique et une vision romancée de la vie de Jules César. Certains aspects de la vie très privée de Jules César ont été développés selon une vision romanesque d'un personnage dont la vie est digne du plus grand des romans historiques ou d'aventure ! Renée Dunan (Avignon, 1892-1936) est une... Read more

Timebound

By: Rysa Walker

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner—Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction.When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day... Read more

A Blind Goddess

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

March, 1944. US Army lieutenant Billy Boyle, back in England after a dangerous mission in Italy, is due for a little R&R—and a promotion. But the now-Captain Boyle doesn't get to kick back and enjoy his leisure time because two upsetting cases fall into his lap at once.The first is a personal request from an estranged friend: Sergeant Eugene... Read more

Captain Jack’s Woman

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

They meet in a clash of swords, drenched in the moonlight of Britain's rugged eastern coast: Captain Jack, his handsome features etched in silver and shadow, his powerful physique compelling "Kit" Cranmer to surrender. He is her dream lover come vividly alive, and his command of the smuggling gang is absolute. His all-knowing gaze penetrates her... Read more