Historical Fiction audiobooks

The City of Shadows

By: Michael Russell

Narrated by: Conor Delaney

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An evocative debut crime novel, set between Dublin and Danzig in the 1930s – linking the church, an illegal abortionist, the Nazi Party and a missing woman… Detective Stefan Gillespie arrest Herr Keller under suspicion of carrying out illegal abortions and encounters Hannah Rosen desperately trying to find her friend Susan,... Read more

The Prodigal Son

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chubb University biochemist Millie Hunter notices that a deadly neurotoxin is missing from her laboratory refrigerator, she immediately goes to her father, who is also CT's Chief Medical Examiner. They both know that the situation is grave; the poison shuts down the nervous system and is virtually impossible to stop. Soon, as bodies pile up... Read more

The Angel of Darkness

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 25 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year... Read more

Countess So Shameless

By: Liana LeFey

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can compete for Lady Mélisande’s coveted affections like the Italian rogue she met five years prior during a visit to Versailles. Her encounter with Lord Alessandro Orsini awakened a passion so fierce that the mere memory of it still ignites her senses. So when the celebrated rake resurfaces in London, Mélisande succumbs to temptation and... Read more

The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the... Read more

Her Highness and the Highlander

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times
bestselling author Tracy Anne Warren comes the second novel in an
enchanting new trilogy about three princesses brought together by
friendship and fate on their way to finding true love. This is Princess
Mercedes's story . . .
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Make Believe

By: Ed Ifkovic

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Others find peace of mind in pretending. Couldn't you? Couldn't I?"—from the song "Make Believe," by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musicalShow BoatIn June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support an old friend, Max, who has found himself blacklisted in the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, which have rattled Hollywood with... Read more

When Daylight Comes

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

WHEN TOMORROW DAWNS - a heart-warming and compelling saga by Lyn Andrews. Not to be missed by readers of Dilly Court and Donna Douglas.

Jessica Brennan is just nineteen years old when her world falls apart. Losing her father at sea was devastating enough, but the death of her mother is almost too much to bear. The grieving has barely begun when... Read more

Across a Summer Sea

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary McGann's marriage has always been difficult, thanks to her husband Frank's drunken, jealous nature. Only because the little money he earns in the docks keeps food in the mouths of their children is Mary prepared to put up with him. But when Frank throws them all out on the street, Mary flees to her family in Dublin. There she meets Richard... Read more

Love and a Promise

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

LOVE AND A PROMISE - a heartrending Liverpool saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Kate Thompson.

Maddy Kiernan knows her situation is desperate. With her parents dead, her brother Thomas is left as guardian to Maddy and her sister Carmel. But Thomas has plans that don't include his sisters and his... Read more

Angels of Mercy

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Jaqueline King

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Lyn Andrews' unputdownable saga ANGELS OF MERCY is perfect for fans of Kate Thompson and Kitty Neale.

Blue-eyed, blond-haired, full of smiles and sweetness, even as babies twins Kate and Evvie Greenway captured the hearts of Liverpool's Scotland Road slumlands. But now they are almost adults the two girls find that being... Read more

The House on Lonely Street

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

For Katherine Donovan the slums of Dublin are a lonely place. Her father, a pawnbroker, is the most hated man in the district, and Katherine an outcast. Her only friend is tiny Ceppi Healy, underfed, irrepressible and, the youngest in a neglected family of eight, as much an emotional orphan as eighteen-year-old Katherine. Then, one night, the... Read more

Friends Forever

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

FRIENDS FOREVER is the moving saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. A must read for fans of Kitty Neale and Ellie Deane.

In 1928 Bernie O'Sullivan and Molly Keegan catch their first glimpse of the bustling city they're about to call home. Both seventeen, and best friends since childhood, the girls have left Ireland behind for an exciting new... Read more

Far From Home

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's,... Read more

Every Mother's Son

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Molly and Bernie have been friends forever. As young girls they left Ireland seeking new beginnings in Liverpool. Now they are marrying their sweethearts and looking forward to enjoying the lives they've worked so hard to build. But as the Liverpool Blitz begins, it seems as if their dreams are about to be destroyed. Night after night, horrific... Read more

Untamed Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it's up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation.

Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic.... Read more

A Daughter's Journey

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

A captivating new saga set in Liverpool and Ireland, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE and FAR FROM HOME Angela O'Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don't love her... Read more

Days of Hope

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1945 and the war is finally over. For the Devlin family in Liverpool, the wartime years have been almost too much to bear. But at long last sisters Grace and Chrissie can return to their normal lives. Level-headed and hard-working, Grace wants nothing more than to meet a nice man and settle down. Vivacious Chrissie, though, craves fun and... Read more

A Mother's Love

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Lyn Andrews' touching Liverpool saga A MOTHER'S LOVE is perfect for fans of Ellie Dean and Kate Thompson.

Eve and Eddie Dobson have been running the George pub in Liverpool for over twenty years. Now, though, the Depression is taking hold and, with money in short supply, it's galling for Eve that the barmaid they can barely... Read more

My Sister's Child

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a roof over their heads are luxuries. The Ryan family have barely grown accustomed to such things when a fire destroys their father Jack's modest coal haulage business, leaving Jack broken and his family facing ruin. They're forced to turn to Conor, Jack's brother from Ireland,... Read more

Take these Broken Wings

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Eunice Roberts

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyn Andrews' powerful Liverpool saga TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS is perfect for readers of Dilly Court and Kate Thompson.

Since she was six, Hannah Peckham has known how hard the world is. Thrown into the workhouse by the cousin to whom her desperate soldier father entrusted her, she emerges determined to make the most of what life has to offer,... Read more

A Secret in the Family

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating new novel from the bestselling author of A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY and DAYS OF HOPE - 'An outstanding storyteller' Woman's Weekly

When best friends Dee Campbell and Jean Williams leave school in 1959, it feels like every opportunity awaits them. Their families haven't long moved from a rundown part of the city to leafy Kirkby when Jean's... Read more

The Ties that Bind

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Jaqueline King

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TIES THAT BIND is a powerful, moving saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. Not to be missed by readers of Kate Thompson and Donna Douglas.

Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter of a family of fatherless boys. When her mother dies she's her brothers' lifeline to survival. So for Tessa the privations of war are just another battle to be... Read more

To Love and to Cherish

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The enthralling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author and Headline's queen of sagas

Life in 1920s Liverpool for sisters Gloria and Betty Jenkins is secure and comfortable. Elder sister Gloria finds romance with the boy next door, until her wealthy, but snobbish and interfering Aunt Sybil steps in, offering her the opportunity of a... Read more