Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Spice Merchant's Wife

By: Charlotte Betts

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

1666. Newly married to a wealthy spice merchant, Kate Finche believes all her dreams of a happy family life are just around the corner until the Great Fire rages through London. She watches in horror as their livelihood goes up in flames, filling the air with the heady scents of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

As the city is devastated, Kate's... Read more

Palast der Schatten

By: Dagmar Fohl

Narrated by: Dagmar Fohl

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

1914. Ein kleines Stadtkino zur Zeit des Stummfilms. Der Filmerzähler Theo und die Kinopianistin Carla verlieben sich leidenschaftlich. Beide gehen völlig in ihrer Arbeit auf, doch ihr Glück wird überschattet von Carlas verhängnisvoller Vergangenheit. Der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges reißt das Paar auseinander und stellt seine Liebe auf... Read more

The Glass Ocean

By: Lori Baker

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of love, art, and obsession in Victorian England from debut novelist Lori BakerThe Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents—solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard—and discovers in their... Read more

The Scarletti Curse

By: Christine Feehan

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorn the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a more fearful secret lurks within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who enters its forbidding walls is doomed to leave in a casket.Nicoletta knows all too well the curse that plagues the house of Scarletti. She has always believed her... Read more

One Sweet Quarrel

By: Deirdre McNamer

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Nancy Pearl

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother and sister Jerry and Daisy Lou Malone leave behind their provincial Midwestern upbringing to test their mettle in the big, beckoning world of 1920s America. For Jerry, the future lies west, with like-minded pioneer souls keen to play the “land game” as homesteaders on the Great Plains. Daisy, in turn, heads for the lights and luxe life... Read more

Ghosts of Bungo Suido

By: P. T. Deutermann

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling World War II adventure that moves from a daring submarine to a notorious Japanese prison camp and ends in a dramatic military court, by the Boyd Award-winning author of Pacific Glory In late 1944, America’s recapture of the Philippines is jeopardized by what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships,... Read more

Why Dukes Say I Do

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

With her whirlwind social life in London, Lady Isabella Wharton has little interest in the customs of the country. But when her godmother asks her to pay a visit to her bachelor grandson in Yorkshire, Isabella can't refuse. It behooves her to please the old dowager, since she harbors one of Isabella's most scandalous secrets. So off she goes to... Read more

The Gift

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Ransom weaves the delightful, sensual story of two lovers destined for high adventure and blissful rapture!A child bride, Sara Winchester had grown into a winsome beauty, joyfully anticipating the day when her husband Nathan, Marquess of St. James, would return to claim her heart at last. Charmingly... Read more

My Fair Concubine

By: Jeannie Lin

Narrated by: Sarah Lam

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NOBLEMAN WHO TURNED A TEA GIRL INTO A PRINCESS...Yan Ling tries hard to be servile - it's what's expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle...Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit - until he realises she's the answer to his problems...He has to deliver the Emperor a 'princess'.... Read more

The White Princess

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor.

When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the... Read more

Two Fronts

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf Hitler to gobble up the Sudetenland in 1938. Once Hitler finished dismembering Czechoslovakia, he was ready to go to war over Poland a year later. But Hitler had always been eager to seize Czechoslovakia, no matter the consequences. So what if England and France had stood up to the Nazis from... Read more

The Merlin Prophecy Book One

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

BOY, HEALER, PROPHET-- THE EPIC TALE OF MERLIN BEGINS In the town of Segontium a wild storm washes a fugitive ashore. He brutally rapes the granddaughter of the ruler of the Deceangli tribe, leaving her to bear his son, Myrddion Merlinus (Merlin). Spurned as a demon seed, the child is raised by his grandmother and, as soon as he turns nine, he... Read more

The Quarryman's Bride

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan were destined to be together...until the tragic deaths of Emmalyne's youngest sisters. Family tradition mandates that the youngest daughter should remain single to care for her parents in their old age, and now that daughter is Emmalyne. Her father unyielding, Emmalyne surrenders to her duty, heartbroken. Tavin... Read more

The Far Shore

By: Nick Brown

Narrated by: Nigel Peever

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When the deputy commander of Rome's Imperial Security Service is assassinated on the island of Rhodes, Cassius Corbulo swiftly finds himself embroiled in the investigation. Assisted once more by ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara and servant Simo, his search for the truth is complicated by the involvement of the dead man's headstrong daughter,... Read more

At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"I do not think I want to be married at all. I want to be rich. Very rich…"When Henrietta Bascombe opens a confectionary shop in order to turn her pittance of an inheritance into a fortune, her friends are shocked to hear of such a well-bred lady going into trade. The Earl of Carrisdown is both drawn to and repelled by her shopgirl status.... Read more

Lillian and Dash

By: Sam Toperoff

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver & Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, and Lillian Hellman, author of The Children's Hour, reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades.Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple and... Read more

The Poisoned Pilgrim

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Poisoned Pilgrim is the fourth book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman’s daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their two small children arrive there, they learn that the monks have far larger concerns than saying... Read more

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century

Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness,... Read more

Blood & Beauty

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most... Read more

Suite Francaise

By: Irene Nemirovsky

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes & Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of ... Read more

The Tudor Conspiracy

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hunted by a shadowy foe in Bloody Mary's court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London's treacherous underworld to unravel a dark conspiracy that could make Elizabeth queen—or send her to her death.England, 1553. Harsh winter encroaches upon the realm. Mary Tudor has become queen to popular acclaim, and her enemies are imprisoned in the Tower. But... Read more

The Highlander's Bride

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Highland laird Conor McTiernay had always dreamed of an enduring love. But the reality of women who desired him only for his title and lands made him swear off marriage forever. That is until he first set eyes on the Englishwoman his men found hiding in the forest. Beneath the dirt and grime it was clear Laurel Cordell was beautiful. But would... Read more

Valley of the Gun

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

HOLY HELL Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack has encountered many a relentless outlaw in his days as a lawman, but none quite like Fannin " Dad" Orwick. The devout leader of the Redemption Riders, Orwick robs and kills to support his ever-expanding family of young wives and children, all in the name of the Lord. After the Ranger learns that Orwick is... Read more

Letters From Skye

By: Jessica Brockmole

Narrated by: Elle Newlands, Katy Townsend, Lincoln Hoppe, Ad...

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.
 
March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home... Read more