Historical Fiction audiobooks

Tod und Teufel - Abridged

By: Frank Schätzing

Narrated by: Frank Schätzing

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Köln im September 1260: Jeder steht gegen jeden. Erzbischof und Bürger versuchen, einander mit allen legalen und illegalen Mitteln in die Knie zu zwingen. Jacop der Fuchs, Dieb und Herumtreiber, zeigt an den erzbischöflichen Äpfeln indes mehr Interesse als an der hohen Politik. Was ihm nicht gut bekommt: In den Ästen eines Apfelbaumes sitzend,... Read more

Viking's Prize

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Cursed with the second sight, Elienor of Baume les Nonnes dared not reveal her prophetic dreams for fear of meeting her mother's fiery end - though in her dreams she spied the Norsemen who would storm Brouillard castle - and she she saw him, the fierce, golden-haired Viking who would claim her as his prize....Revenge brought Alarik Trygvason to... Read more

A Place of Greater Safety

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 33 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and... Read more

The Bookman's Tale

By: Charlie Lovett

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love. Charlie Lovett’s new book, The Lost Book of the Grail, is now available.

Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful... Read more

The Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with the next in her Cynster Sisters series . . .The Honorable Miss Mary Cynster always gets what she wants. As the last unwed Cynster of her generation, she is determined to remain in charge of her life and of the man she will marry. At the very bottom of her list of potential... Read more

A Woman Entangled

By: Cecilia Grant

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Westbrook has dreams far bigger than romance. Love won't get her into London's most consequential parties, nor prevent her sisters from being snubbed and looked down upon—all because their besotted father unadvisedly married an actress. But a noble husband for Kate would deliver a future most suited to the granddaughter of an earl. Armed... Read more

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different... Read more

Saving Grace

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this splendid New York Times bestseller, Julie Garwood brilliantly crafts the majestic story of a young Englishwoman determined to fight for her freedom…a woman whose life would be transformed by the rare, unexpected gift of love.When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only sixteen, already she... Read more

The Scent of Jasmine

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When fulfilling a favor for her godfather puts Catherine Edilean Harcourt in danger, the southern bell must decide if trusting an alleged, yet attractive, convict will be the best or worst decision she’s ever made.

Charleston, 1799. A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in... Read more

More Than a Stranger

By: Erin Knightley

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When his family abandoned him at Eton, Benedict Hastings found an unexpected ally in his best friend's sister. Her letters kept him going—until the day he had to leave everything behind. Years later, Benedict has seen his share of betrayal, but when treachery hits close to home, he turns to his old friend for safe haven.



After five torturous... Read more

The Guardian

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After years of fighting abroad, Ian MacDonald comes home to find his clan in peril. To save his kin, he must right the wrongs from his past…and claim the bride he's long resisted.



As a young lass, Sìleas depended on Ian to play her knight in shining armor. But when his rescue attempt compromised her virtue, Ian was forced to marry against his... Read more

The Summer Queen

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Katie Scarfe

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times
'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home
'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph

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Eleanor of Aquitaine
A loving mother. A betrayed wife. A queen beyond compare.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's story is legendary. She is an icon who has... Read more

Das Spiel der Nachtigall (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Tanja Kinkel

Narrated by: Uve Teschner & Kathrin Fröhlich

Length: 31 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts beginnt ein Junge aus ärmsten Verhältnissen seinen unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg an die Spitze der Minnesänger, um den sich die Fürstenhöfe streiten - und das, obwohl Walther von der Vogelweide mit allen Konventionen bricht und dem Minnesang die Keuschheit nimmt. Was keiner seiner Gönner ahnt, die ihn als "Nachtigall"... Read more

Masaryk Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American... Read more

What the Duke Desires

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke's brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan's... Read more

Instructions for a Heatwave

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable bestseller The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox—blend richly... Read more

Tarnish

By: Katherine Longshore

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Boleyn is the odd girl out. Newly arrived to the court of King Henry VIII, everything about her seems wrong, from her clothes to her manners to her witty but sharp tongue. So when the dashing poet Thomas Wyatt offers to coach her on how to shine at court—and to convince the whole court they’re lovers—she accepts. Before long, Anne’s... Read more

The Perks of Being a Beauty

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful Miss Amelia Snowe is not accustomed to being snubbed by the gentlemen of the ton. But when her mother dies unexpectedly, forcing Amelia to take employment as companion to a wealthy cit's daughter, she quickly learns to play down her looks or risk losing her position. When her employers, the Smithsons, decide to throw a country... Read more

Restoration

By: Rose Tremain

Narrated by: Paul Daneman

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

From Rose Tremain comes the Booker Prize short-listed novel that "restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor" (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and... Read more

Destiny's Embrace

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Beverly Jenkins' historical romances have earned her a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writers' Guild and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times. Set in 19th-century California, Destiny's Embrace introduces listeners to ranch owner Logan Yates, who must come to terms with his true feelings for Mariah Cooper, his beautiful, headstrong... Read more

Highland Rake

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Borah Coburn

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Dougald MacNeill is the next to youngest MacNeill brother and he's not about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his lap... and then, the trouble begins. When Dougald finds Alana roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands, he takes her in hand to see his laird brother James at Craigly Castle to determine her fate. But... Read more

One Heart to Win

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, presents a passionate novel of hidden identities, family secrets, and love that transcends a fifty-year feud set in the 1880s in the majestic ranchland of the Montana territory.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love—but Tiffany Warren is... Read more

The Ides of April

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Lucy Brown

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign... Read more

The Confessions of Al Capone

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he... Read more