Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Dark and Brooding Gentleman

By: Margaret McPhee

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Dark and Brooding Gentleman, acclaimed Regency-era author Margaret McPhee tells the story of reformed rake Sebastian Hunter and the far-too-pretty Phoebe Allardyce, his estranged mother's paid companion. Sparks fly until he catches Phoebe trying to steal a priceless heirloom from the manor. What Sebastian doesn't know is that her father's... Read more

The Wolves of the North

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fifth novel in Harry Sidebottom's acclaimed and 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 263, the Roman Empire is close to turmoil as violent uprisings threaten to shatter the fragile balance of power. In the north,... Read more

The Beautiful and the Cursed

By: Page Morgan

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series and Lauren Kate's Fallen novels will devour The Beautiful and the Cursed, a wholly original interpretation of gargoyle lore. 
   After a bizarre accident, Ingrid Waverly is forced to leave London with her mother and her younger sister, Gabby, trading a world full of fancy dresses and society... Read more

His Majesty's Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be deadly.

World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air... Read more

Merivel

By: Rose Tremain

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Restoration is over and Robert Merivel, renowned physician and courtier to Charles II, now faces the anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: Has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the king's friend or the king's slave? In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles leaves him in despair,... Read more

Woman's Own

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Blessed with great beauty and wealth, Emily Armstrong had the highest privileges that youth can bestow. But all that is behind her now. Pregnant and abandoned by the man she loved, she struggles to survive in the slums of Philadelphia after the Civil War. Vowing never to be fooled by love again, she builds a new life as the mistress of a... Read more

The Highlander's Lady

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Laird Daniel Murray seeks adventure, battle, and freedom for his countrymen. Putting off his duties as laird—with a promise to his clan he'll return come spring—Daniel sets off with his men to fight alongside William Wallace and the Bruce. But soon he stumbles upon an enchanting lady in need. She tantalizes him with an offer he simply can't... Read more

Kiss of Steel

By: Bec McMaster

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price?



Blade is known as the master of the rookeries—no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single–handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood–craving he's been quicker, stronger, almost... Read more

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen 1 - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stories von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Wildwestgeschichte. Es geht um einsame Reiter, die widerwillig zu Helden werden, um harte Männer, die plötzlich ganz weich werden, um Glücksspiel, die Jagd nach Gold - und natürlich um Frauen und das, was sie aus den harten Jungs machen. Ein Fremder in der Stadt: Als der Revolverheld Luke Clayton in den... Read more

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen 3 - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Packende Erzählungen von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Westerngeschichte. Schnörkellose Geschichten um Glücksspiel, harte Männer - und noch härtere Frauen! Der Revolverheld und der Priester: Als der Fremde im Saloon auftaucht, wird er Zeuge, wie ein betrunkener Priester von zwei Männern misshandelt wird. Zwei gegen einen, das ist unfair, dafür... Read more

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen 4 - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Ausgestoßenen von Poker Flat: Die Stadt Poker Flat will sich ungeliebter Einwohner entledigen. Ein Glücksspieler, ein Dieb und zwei Prostituierte werden aus der Stadt gejagt. Der einzige Zufluchtsort ist Sandy Bar - doch der Weg dorthin führt über einen Pass - und der Winter könnte jeden Moment einbrechen... Eine packende Story über wahres... Read more

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen 2 - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stories von Bret Harte, dem Erfinder der Westerngeschichte, von einsamen Reitern, die widerwillig zu Helden werden, von Glücksspielern, Goldsuchern - und Frauen. In der Todeswüste von Arizona: Als ein einsamer Goldsucher in der Wüste sein Pferd erschießen muss, ist er dem Tode geweiht. Doch kurz bevor er ohnmächtig wird, findet ihn ein Fremder... Read more

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen - Die Box - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten und packendsten Wildwest-Stories von Bret Harte. Einsame Reiter, die zu Helden werden. Männer, die den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse kämpfen. Frauen, die nur scheinbar das "schwache Geschlecht" sind... Mit dabei: Der Glücksbringer von Roaring Camp, Die Ausgestoßenen von Poker Flat, Miggles, Das Idyll von Red Gulch, Ein Fremder... Read more

Warlord

By: Angus Donald

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1194. Finally released from captivity, Richard the Lionheart is in Normandy engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of his continental patrimony. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare - siege, savagery and scorched earth - the Lionheart is gradually pushing back the forces of King Philip of France. By his side in this epic... Read more

The Scarlet Thief

By: Paul Fraser Collard

Narrated by: Dudley Hinton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Scarlet Thief by Paul Fraser Collard introduces roguish hero Jack Lark - dubbed 'Sharpe meets the Talented Mr Ripley' - who gets his first taste of battle and bloodshed in the Crimea. 'An appealing and formidable hero' (Sunday Express) for fans of Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series and Conn Iggulden.

1854: The banks of the Alma River,... Read more

Cheyenne Amber

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson counts a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award among her many honors. Set in Colorado in the year 1864, Cheyenne Amber tells the tale of Boston-born Laura Cheney, who finds herself widowed and alone in the wilderness with her newborn son. When her baby is kidnapped, Laura turns to Deke... Read more

A Sparrow Falls

By: Wilbur Smith

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A Sparrow Falls is the next in Wilbur Smith's Courtney Family Adventures series.Mark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe's Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other….In Africa, Mark's family estate has been despoiled. His... Read more

Southern Cross the Dog

By: Bill Cheng

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the pastWith clouds looming ominously on the horizon, a group of children play among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be interrupted by a merciless storm–bringing with it the Great Flood of 1927–but not before Robert Chatham... Read more

The Other Typist

By: Suzanne Rindell

Narrated by: Gretchen Mol

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…

Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes of the keys before her, she seals their fate. But while... Read more

Call Me Zelda

By: Erika Robuck

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.

When Zelda... Read more

Benjamin Franklin's Bastard

By: Sally Cabot

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Frankiln’s Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both.William Franklin, the son of Benjamin and his favorite mistress, Anne, is... Read more

Murder as a Fine Art

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years... Read more

It Happened at the Fair

By: Deeanne Gist

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair's Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of... Read more

Matter of Trust

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Engaging Pride and Prejudice ‘what-if’ story with a hint of intrigue and a touch of romance.A young bride whom he married to prevent a scandal. A mysterious, wayward aunt whom he never really knew. A woefully misguided sister whom he removed from harm’s way.Undermining Darcy’s relationships with the three women in his life is a most disturbing... Read more