Historical Fiction audiobooks

Black Ice

By: Andrew Lane

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sherlock and Amyus Crowe, his American tutor, visit Sherlock's brother Mycroft in London, what they find shocks both of them to the core: a locked room, a dead body, and Mycroft holding a knife. The police are convinced Mycroft is a vicious murderer, but Sherlock is just as convinced he is innocent. Threatened with the gallows, Mycroft... Read more

Seduction of the Innocent

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books—especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own—leaving his opponents in hot... Read more

The Autumn Bride

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Governess Abigail Chantry will do anything to save her sister and two dearest friends from destitution, even if it means breaking into an empty mansion in the hope of finding something to sell. Instead of treasures, though, she finds the owner, Lady Beatrice Davenham, bedridden and neglected. Appalled, Abby rousts Lady Beatrice's predatory... Read more

Souvenir

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrets trail an American soldier from his Depression upbringing to the cold winter battles in the Ardennes Forest in the last months of World War II and through the postwar decades, as he struggles to keep his family from being torn apart while keeping the truth buried close to his heart. Clay Brock, proprietor of Jake's Tavern, has endured... Read more

The Stockholm Octavo

By: Karen Engelmann

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Patrick Suskind's classic Perfume comes a dazzling debut set during Stockholm's opulent golden age and brilliantly interweaving history, romance, and intrigue—a story in which one man's fortune holds the key to a nation's precarious fate.Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs... Read more

The Hidden Shore

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

1843: the early years of Queen Victoria's reign witness much high-level debate at the Palace of Westminster, but nothing can interfere with Society's enjoyment of the Season.

When Charlotte Meldon's father dies, she believes herself to be destitute, but a lawyer's letter reveals that she is not only part of the great Morland family, but wealthy... Read more

The Missing Italian Girl

By: Barbara Corrado Pope

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sultry night in June 1897, a young Russian by the name of Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades." They... Read more

Above All Things

By: Tanis Rideout

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tell me the story of Everest,” she said, a fervent smile sweeping across her face, creasing the corners of her eyes. “Tell me about this mountain that’s stealing you away from me.” 

In 1924 George Mallory departs on his third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Left behind in Cambridge, George’s young wife, Ruth, along with the rest... Read more

Maggot Moon

By: Sally Gardner

Narrated by: Robert Madge

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn’t want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell, who has different-colored eyes, who "can’t read, can’t write, Standish Treadwell isn’t bright," sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers". So when Standish and... Read more

Out of the Easy

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

 It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie... Read more

Seven Years to Sin

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Fiona Underwood

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man forced to sell his body for money. A young lady who watched him do it. Two tormented souls brought together years later to assuage the hunger of a desperate, irresistible attraction.…With lush sensuality and unerring insight, Sylvia Day explores the underpinnings of intimacy and desire.Praise for Sylvia Day and her novels“Bared to... Read more

The House Girl

By: Tara Conklin

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an... Read more

The Midwife of Hope River

By: Patricia Harman

Narrated by: Anne Wittman

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable new voice in American fiction enchants readers with a moving and uplifting novel that celebrates the miracle of life. In The Midwife of Hope River, first-time novelist Patricia Harmon transports us to poverty stricken Appalachia during the Great Depression years of the 1930s and introduces us to a truly unforgettable heroine.... Read more

Passion for the Game

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Infamous for satisfying his limitless wants and desires, Christopher is a free man again. And this time he’s on a mission to engage, deceive and seduce the one woman as ruthless as he is when it comes to dangerous games of passion.…Far from innocent in the ways of men, Maria is one step ahead of Christopher’s every move. It doesn’t mean she... Read more

Hattie Ever After

By: Kirby Larson

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Kirby Larson

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After leaving Uncle Chester's homestead claim, orphan Hattie Brooks throws a lasso around a new dream, even bigger than the Montana sky. She wants to be a reporter, knowing full well that a few pieces published in the Arlington News will not suffice. Real reporters must go to Grand Places, and do Grand Things, like Hattie's hero Nellie Bly.... Read more

Philida

By: Andre Brink

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don't say no. You don't ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I... Read more

Shadow on the Crown

By: Patricia Bracewell

Narrated by: Katie Firth

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queen

In 1002, fifteen­-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who... Read more

Christmas Past

By: Glenice Crossland

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses one Sunday in church she is taken to live with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village for her health. Though initially employed as a maid, Mary soon becomes the daughter the couple were never able to have.

With Britain at war, unable to remain idle, Mary finds employment in the... Read more

The Ever Open Door

By: Glenice Crossland

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Told with warmth and humour, The Ever Open Door is the story of a hard working, down-to-earth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War and its aftermath.

Burly steelworker Jim Butler and his wife Sally are quite content in their little house on Potters Row. Jim's only complaint is that Sally is too soft hearted for her own... Read more

A Family Christmas

By: Glenice Crossland

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Lucy Gabbitas has just left school and is excited about joining her sisters at the local umbrella factory. But then her beloved father dies of lung disease leaving Lucy and her brothers and sisters broken-hearted. With barely enough to make ends meet, the family receive no sympathy from their tyrannical mother, Annie, and their first Christmas... Read more

Etiquette & Espionage

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This young adult steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and... Read more

Iscariot

By: Tosca Lee

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brilliantly adapts the life of Judas Iscariot into a dazzling work of fiction—humanizing the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal.

Based on extensive research into the life and times of Judas Iscariot, this triumph of fiction storytelling by the author of Havah: The Story of Eve... Read more

The Importance of Being Wicked

By: Victoria Alexander

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For Winfield Elliott, Viscount Stillwell, finding a prospective bride always seemed easy. Perhaps too easy. With three broken engagements to his name, Win is the subject of endless gossip. Yet his current mission is quite noble: to hire a company to repair his family’s fire-damaged country house. Nothing disreputable in that—until the firm’s... Read more

Refining Felicity

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amy and Effy Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on a much needed inheritance, they place an advertisement in the Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client in this... Read more