Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Taming of Annabelle

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Annabelle Armitage is pea-green with envy. What a cruel world it is when her spinster of an older sister can enchant the dashing Lord Sylvester Comfrey! Annabelle’s own passionate nature is surely better suited for such a one as Sylvester. Alas for Annabelle, Comfrey seems to care for her not a jot. Determined to get a bit of her own back,... Read more

Earth Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In thirteenth-century England, lovely Philippa de Beauchamp escapes from her father's castle and is swept away by the roguish Dienwald de Fortenberry, only to find herself a prisoner in her lover's castle, surrounded by mysteries, villains, and passion. Read more

Minerva

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Minerva marks the delightful debut of the Six Sisters series, a family saga in six volumes that recounts the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend Charles Armitage, in Regency England.The eldest, Minerva, is enchantingly beautiful—but a prude. She lives in the country looking after her siblings... Read more

Earth Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In thirteenth-century England, lovely Philippa de Beauchamp escapes from her father's castle and is swept away by the roguish Dienwald de Fortenberry, only to find herself a prisoner in her lover's castle, surrounded by mysteries, villains, and passion. Read more

A Christmas Garland

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this yuletide tale set in exotic India, the mistress of mystery tells the story of a terrible crime that sets the stage for another: accusing an innocent man of murder.The year is 1857, soon after the tragic Siege of Cawnpore. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths.... Read more

The Lion in Chains

By: Mark Teppo & Angus Trim

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.Many were displeased with the “peace” King Richard of England brokered in the Holy Land, and his return from... Read more

Jane Eyre Laid Bare

By: Eve Sinclair & Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone is familiar with Charlotte Brontë's passionate, but restrained novel in which the plain, yet spirited governess Jane Eyre falls for the arrogant Mr. Rochester. It's a novel that simmers with sexual tension but never quite reaches the boiling point. Which is to be expected. After all, the original was written in 1847. That was then. This... Read more

Astray

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and... Read more

The Christmas Kid

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the... Read more

The Dead of Winter

By: Lee Collins

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cora and her husband hunt things - things that shouldn't exist. When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to find the creature responsible, but if Cora is to overcome the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town, she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her present. Read more

Sword and Scimitar

By: Simon Scarrow

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

SWORD AND SCIMITAR is the gripping tale of the Great Siege of Malta from Simon Scarrow, bestselling author of the Eagles of the Empire series. A must read for fans of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris.

1565, Malta: a vital outpost between the divided nations of Europe and the relentlessly expanding Ottoman Empire. Faced with ferocious attack by a... Read more

The Wolf's Gold: Empire V

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh from their victory in Germania, Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians have been sent to Dacia, on the north-eastern edge of the Roman Empire, with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power.
  The mines of Alburnus Major contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the marauding Sarmatae... Read more

To Whisper Her Name

By: Tamera Alexander

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Tamera Alexander comes an exquisite historical novel set against the real history of Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, that explores the struggles of real people of the post-war South and the journeys of a man and a woman scarred by betrayal.Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the... Read more

The Art Forger

By: B. A. Shapiro

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.
 
 Making a living reproducing famous... Read more

Das große Western-Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Goldene Zeiten im wilden Westen: Die Männer schuften hart, schießen schnell und verspielen ihr Gold bei Poker und Whiskey. Frauen? Bringen nur alles durcheinander. Aber wenn dann mal eine auftaucht, zeigt so mancher harte Kerl, dass er auch nur ein Mann ist..... Read more

Die Endlich Urlaub Box! - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Tschechow, Guy de Maupas...

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche, Andreas Muthesius & Sven Görtz

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vier komplette Hörbücher mit wunderbaren Kurzgeschichten. Ideal für die freie Zeit! 490 Minuten perfekte Unterhaltung! Read more

The Bad Miss Bennet

By: Jean Burnett

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, n├®e Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husband.Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and... Read more

A Knight in Shining Armor

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!

Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. Suddenly, the most extraordinary... Read more

This Duchess of Mine

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling romance author of When Beauty Tamed the Beast, puts a chilly, powerful duke in bed with an intelligent, beautiful woman…his wife. In name, anyway.No man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure . . . Except her own husband!Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont... Read more

Intimate Deception

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lady Grace Warren’s father sells her in marriage to the depraved Lord Fentington, she knows only the most drastic action will save her from a life of misery. In Victorian England, a woman possesses only one item of value: her virtue. Without it, Fentington will not want her—nor will any other man. But at least she will be free. Now she must... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage & The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant & Hugh Fraser

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGEThe Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.Miss Marple encounters a... Read more

Princess Elizabeth's Spy

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history.
 
As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former... Read more

Death in the Floating City

By: Tasha Alexander

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated by the Huffington Post as ''one to watch -- and read,'' Tasha Alexander has won fans the world over for her lush descriptions and clever plotting. In Death in the Floating City, Emily is surprised to receive a plea for help from her childhood nemesis, Emma, whose father-in-law has been murdered and whose husband has vanished. Digging... Read more

What Happens At Christmas

By: Victoria Alexander

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Camille, Lady Lydingham, knows precisely what she wants for Christmas — an official engagement to a handsome, dashing prince. Her very proper suitor expects a proper English family and the perfect Dickensian Christmas, which leaves the lovely widow with a slight problem. The last thing Camille wants is for the prince to meet her unconventional... Read more