Historical Fiction audiobooks

Hide Me among the Graves

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1862, London. Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier. Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. McKee has learned that the girl lives—but that her life and soul are in mortal peril from a vampiric ghost. But this... Read more

The Waterworks

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”
–The Washington Post Book World

One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton... Read more

Lady Harriette

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets. Kidnapping. Revenge. A Regency romance story with a hint of Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceA fast-paced, wonderfully engaging Regency romance. Inspired by To Have His Cake (and Eat It Too), the provocative Pride and Prejudice variation, this story has all the passion you might expect of a worldly gentleman who is violently in love,... Read more

The Viper

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Prized for his snakelike stealth and deadly strikes, Lachlan "Viper" MacRuairi is a warrior to enlist but not to trust. His only loyalty is to his purse, his indifference sealed by bitter betrayal. All that changes when Lachlan is tasked to protect and deliver Bella MacDuff to the king's coronation—and the proud, lushly sensual countess... Read more

High Desert Haven

By: Lynnette Bonner

Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Is Jason Jordan really who he says he is?Everything in Nicki’s life depends on the answer.Oregon, 1887When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Determined to bring her ranch back from the brink of death, Nicki hires handsome Jason Jordan to help. But when William, her neighbor,... Read more

The Perfect Gentleman

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prolific M. C. Beaton, a Regency romance where love flourishes in the most unexpected placesFrom the top of his flawlessly groomed head to the waxed tips of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. But Andrew's arrogant composure was almost always shattered by the impertinent Penelope Mortimer, an... Read more

Into the Whirlwind

By: Elizabeth Camden

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As owner of the 57th Illinois Watch Company, Mollie Knox's future looks bright until the night the legendary Great Chicago Fire destroys her beloved city. With her world crumbling around her, Mollie will do whatever it takes to rebuild in the aftermath of the devastating fire. Zack Kazmarek, an influential attorney for one of Chicago's finest... Read more

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santo-Dumont

By: Victoria Griffith

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A successful journalist, Victoria Griffith makes her first foray into children's fiction with the story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the larger-than- life Brazilian who many argue flew before the Wright brothers. It was 1906 in Paris when Alberto, challenged by a fellow inventor, turned his dirigible into a flying machine and cemented his place in... Read more

Dancing on the Wind

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lizzie Stanton

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A unique spin on the romance genre from New York Times bestselling author M. C. BeatonI am going to die, Polly thought. The crowd clamored for a speech. Polly raised her hands, and they fell silent. From the foot of the gallows, she asked the spectators why she, a poor woman, should hang for theft, while the abbess of Covent Garden can commit... Read more

Black Horse Creek

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the American West, a hell-bent boy and his father come up against a former marshal who isn't above breaking the law.There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy... Read more

Lord of Fire, Lady of Ice

By: Michelle M. Pillow

Narrated by: Mason Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you were told you had to marry a man who represents everything you fear?Lady Della the Cold-HeartedLady Della despises all things Viking. They may rule the land, but they will never rule her. Unfortunately, her father doesn’t seem to agree. To prove his continued allegiance to the Viking king, the Ealdorman of Strathfeld... Read more

The Winter Warrior

By: James Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Battle of Hastings has been lost and the iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the life out of England, but there is one who still stands against the foreign invasion—Hereward, the winter warrior.1067. Following the devastating destruction of the Battle of Hastings, William the Bastard and his men have descended on England.... Read more

The Time of the Wolf

By: James Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A rousing historical novel that rescues one of England’s forgotten heroes from the mists of early medieval history and brings him to brutal and bloody life 1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can... Read more

Sins of the Flesh

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the next installment of this "compelling, passionate, and gritty" (Daily Mail, London) suspense series, police captain Carmine Delmonico is on the trail of not one but two killers.It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two... Read more

Stella Bain

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.

When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in.

A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly... Read more

White Fire

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Past and present collide as Special Agent Pendergast uncovers mysterious connections between a string of 19th century bear attacks in a Colorado mining town, a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story, and a deadly present-day arsonist.

In 1876, in a mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, eleven miners were killed by a rogue... Read more

The Relation of My Imprisonment

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American—a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.” — Washington Post""A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more than once."" — New York Times Book... Read more

A Risk Worth Taking

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Griffin Blackmoor blames himself for the tragic accident that claimed his wife and young son. Riddled with guilt, he prays that during the Crimean War an enemy’s bullet will end the consuming torture he can’t escape. Instead, that bullet finds his best friend. Now there isn’t enough whiskey in England to make him forget all the people who have... Read more

A Christmas Hope

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Perry's "vastly entertaining" (Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger) holiday novels are "as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable, the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London—and a lonely woman's search for meaning in her life.Claudine... Read more

The King Arthur Trilogy Book One

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

We meet Arthur first as a shy, subservient twelve-year-old living in the home of Lord Ector, who took in the boy when he was a babe to protect him from murderous kin. One day, three influential men arrive at Ector' s villa and arrange for Arthur to be taught the skills of the warrior: blade and shield, horse and fire, pain and bravery. When they... Read more

Once We Were Brothers

By: Ronald H. Balson

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust.

Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the... Read more

The Parrot

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Desiree is married to a wealthy but violent captain of a fishing trawler. For ten years of marriage he terrorizes her, until one night his boat is wrecked at sea and he is never seen alive again.

Four years later, Desiree buys an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed parrot in an auction, and a new nightmare begins. Read more

My Uncle Jules

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"An impoverished French family awaits the prodigal return of their long vanished Uncle Jules from his travels in America.

From his letters it would appear that he has made his fortune and when he returns the family hopes their fortunes will change too.

A boat trip to Jersey provides the opporunity for a reunion...but nobody could anticipate the... Read more

A Queer Night in Paris

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to Paris to visit the opera and takes the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous artists in the cafés of Montmartre.

He is unexpectedly invited to a housewarming party by a notable painter...but things do not go at all as he expected. His host vanishes... Read more