Historical Fiction audiobooks

Flashman

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Read more

Jewball

By: Neal Pollack

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1937. The gears of world war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, America's greatest basketball team, is dealing with his own problems.His coach has unwittingly incurred a massive gambling debt to the Bund, a group of American Nazis. His main basketball rival is self-righteously... Read more

To Seduce An Earl

By: Lori Brighton

Narrated by: Fiona Underwood

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Alex Weston has plied his trade at Lavender Hills, an all-male brothel catering to London’s most fashionable women. His beauty and sexual prowess are legendary, yet his charmed life masks an ugly truth. Alex is a prisoner in a gilded cage, blackmailed into service and desiring only freedom—until the night she walks through his... Read more

The Venus Throw

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Scott Harrison

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome, 56 BC. The great general Pompey has conquered the East; Julius Caesar is defeating the Gauls; only Egypt, with its strategic granaries and vast treasuries of gold, still eludes the grasp of Rome. The city itself is becoming ever more corrupt, as the last generation of the Roman Republic indulges in political backstabbing, endless lawsuits,... Read more

Flashman and the Red Skins

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh volume of the Flashman Papers records the arch-cad's adventures in America during Gold Rush of 1849 and the Battle of Bighorn in 1876, and his acquaintance with famous Indian chiefs, American soldiers, frontiersmen and statesmen. Read more

Royal Flash

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beauiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era. From London gaming-halls and English hunting-fields to European... Read more

Flash for Freedom!

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers. When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the... Read more

Flashman at the Charge

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
 
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly


The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the... Read more

Flashman and the Dragon

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all. Read more

Princess in Love

By: Julianne MacLean

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Leopold Hunt, Marquess of Cavanaugh, is a secret Royalist with a distant hereditary claim to the throne. He has been groomed to one day overthrow the king and rebuild his family's dynasty. Only one thing stands in his way: the king's daughter, Rose.

Princess Rose has loved the marquess her entire life, but she is about to enter a political... Read more

A Dream Unfolding

By: Karen Baney

Narrated by: Sergei Burbank

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The promise of a new life and a chance to start over… Hannah Anderson had the life she always wanted, married to the man of her dreams. When her husband's brother gets in trouble with the law, the town turns against them, shattering her perfect life. Now they are left with only one choice—to head west to the Arizona Territory in the hopes of... Read more

Man in the Blue Moon

By: Michael Morris

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive novelist in the Southern tradition, Michael Morris has garnered comparisons to Harper Lee and Flannery O'Connor. Set during the tumult of World War I, Man in the Blue Moon follows Ella Wallace, a single mother fighting a corrupt banker to keep her family's ancestral land. So when a mysterious man arrives on her doorstep with promises... Read more

The Man on the Third Floor

By: Anne Bernays

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post–World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe he's leading the good American life—until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the... Read more

Victory at Yorktown

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen pen the triumphant conclusion to their George Washington series-a novel of leadership, brotherhood, loyalty, and the victory of the American Revolutionary cause.

1781. After three years in a bitter stalemate, General Washington decides to embark on one of the most audacious... Read more

Betrayal

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the turn of the twentieth century and drifter Hugh Brennan is a man well acquainted with betrayal. Hugh finds himself drawn to the attractive widow, Julia, yet when he looks into her eyes, he recognizes the same hurt that haunts him. Julia Grace has little reason to trust men, but she’s going to have to trust someone if she’s to keep her... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marley was dead, to begin with...' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his... Read more

She Loves Me Not

By: Ron Hansen

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called 'beautifully crafted' (The New York Times), 'unforgettable' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'diverse and expansive' (The Washington Post). Ranging over subjects as diverse as Oscar Wilde, murder, dementia, and romance, this collection shows Ron Hansen at his... Read more

Sweet Tooth

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with... Read more

Stringer on Pikes Peak

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail's brand of courage knows you can't cover a stalemated miners' strike without getting on somebody's fightin' side. But that won't stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners' sit-down out in Cripple Creek. Unfortunately, the only word he's heard so far is vamoose. Seems the Mine Owners'... Read more

Stringer and the Hell-Bound Herd

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When freight trains conquered the West, the big, dusty drives of beef on the hoof became just a colorful piece of cowboy nostalgia. So when a cattle baron called C. J. Tarington aims to punch a thousand plus head through the unforgiving heat and sage of the Great Basin, some say he's a mite simple—or crazy—or both. Stringer thinks it's something... Read more

Stringer on the Mojave

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dead men don't tell tales. Neither do dead women or children. And when their corpses have been dryin' out in the desert sun for fifty years, there's nary a whisper left of what happened. So when the six Mojave mummies are found near Esperanza, it's up to Stringer to get the story. But someone in Esperanza wants him to just plain git.First,... Read more

Wilderness

By: Lance Weller

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Having earned his writing chops as an award-winning author of short fiction, Lance Weller delivers an unforgettable novel set in post-Civil War America. Abel Truman, maimed at the Battle of the Wilderness and beset with old age, lives on the rugged coast of Washington State. Resolving to attend to personal matters set in motion long ago, Truman... Read more

The Secret Daughter

By: Catherine King

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, gritty novel set during the run-up to the launch of Titanic - published in time for its 100th anniversary year

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Loss
Phyllis Kimber's entire future is called into question after her father is killed in Earl Redfern's employ. But the earl knows something about Phyllis that means she will always be... Read more

Catilina’s Riddle

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Scott Harrison

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians.When Gordianus'... Read more