Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mörderische Mission - Im Auftrag Ihrer Majestät-Reihe, Band 16 (Ungekürzt)

By: Rhys Bowen

Narrated by: Arlett Drexler

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lady Georgies Familie stellt sich Nachwuchs ein, doch vorher gilt es einen Mord aufzuklären ... Geheimnisse, Intrigen und Gefahren im Cosy-Krimi von New York Times Bestseller-Autorin Rhys Bowen! Lady Georgie und ihr Ehemann Darcy erwarten ein neues Familienmitglied. Doch als sie eine Einladung von Georgies bester Freundin Belinda nach Paris... Read more

Tage des Neubeginns - Die große Kaufhaus-Saga, Band 3 (Ungekürzt)

By: Mila Sommerfeld

Narrated by: Brigitte Carlsen

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein prachtvolles Kaufhaus, die Liebe zum falschen Mann und ein gefährliches Geheimnis ... Das große Finale der Familiensaga um die drei Schwestern vom Kaufhaus KAWA. Würzburg, 1933: Als Jüngste der Familie Wagner ist Maria verwöhnt und von allen geliebt. Als sie bei der Arbeit im Kaufhaus ihrer Schwester Edgar kennenlernt und die beiden sich... Read more

Негоже лилиям прясть

By: Морис Дрюон

Narrated by: Павел Конышев

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Мориса Дрюона читающая публика знает прежде всего по саге "Проклятые короли", открывшей мрачные тайны Средневековья. За каждым произведением цикла стояла кропотливая работа в Национальном архиве, изучение документов, написанных на архаичном французском или на латыни. "Негоже лилиям прясть" продолжает эту серию исторических фресок, начатую... Read more

Последнее королевство

By: Бернард Корнуэлл

Narrated by: Юрий Титов

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Это история о тех временах, когда датские викинги поставили под сомнение само существование Британии, когда все английские королевства оказались на волосок от гибели. И только король Альфред, единственный правитель в истории Англии, названный Великим, был намерен отстоять независимость острова. Герой романа Утред, в младенчестве похищенный... Read more

Hard Times for the East End Library Girls

By: Patricia McBride

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The library girls are back, striving for a better tomorrowAs the war reaches London, they’ll band together…War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times.The three friends find... Read more

Flor de arrabal

By: Carmen Santos

Narrated by: Charo Soria

Length: 22 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

La emocionante historia de una mujer que supo luchar contra el destino para convertirse en una estrella del espectáculo a principios del siglo XX. En el arrabal zaragozano donde vivía, pocos pensaban que Flor, aquella niña nacida en uno de sus hogares más humildes, estaba destinada a convertirse en una de las grandes figuras de los escenarios,... Read more

La sangre de los libros

By: Santiago Posteguillo

Narrated by: Javier Ruiz Taboada

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Santiago Posteguillo nos sorprende ahora con un fascinante recorrido por los enigmas más famosos de la literatura. Asesinatos, suicidios, duelos, condenas a muerte, guerras, eclipses, vampiros, misterios, juicios… Detrás de los grandes libros se esconde mucha más sangre de lo que uno podría imaginar. ¿Por qué Pushkin murió en un duelo? ¿Es... Read more

The Allegory of the Cave

By: Plato

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the... Read more

The Dragon Lady

By: Louisa Treger

Narrated by: Laura Kirman

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Dragon Lady by Louisa Treger, read by Laura Kirman.

In a period of civil unrest before the War of Liberation, a wealthy and influential couple leave Britain to make a new life in 1950s Rhodesia.

Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady, so called... Read more

Orphans of the Storm

By: Celia Imrie

Narrated by: Celia Imrie

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Orphans of the Storm written and read by Celia Imrie.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The story of a mother's quest to find her children against all odds, set against the epic backdrop of the sinking of the legendary Titanic.

‘Smashing . . . I was hooked on page one and literally could not put it down. I loved all that she wrote... Read more

The Gun Room

By: Georgina Harding

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Gun Room by Georgina Harding, read by Antonia Beamish.

A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating novel from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding

'Georgina Harding’s novel is the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined... Read more

The Colony Club

By: Shelley Noble

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women’s club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they don’t cater to... Read more

Charity

By: Len Deighton

Narrated by: James Lailey

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best" —Mail on Sunday



With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But when he takes a train from Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles across a clue that may lead him to the truth at... Read more

The Heiress’s Daughter

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A dashing rake must prove he has changed his scandalous ways to win his one true love from the arms of another, in a witty new Regency romance from the bestselling author of The Rake's Daughter.



Heiress Clarissa Studley yearns to be loved for more than her fortune. Warmhearted, but plain and shy, she wishes to marry, but has two firm rules: no... Read more

When The Viscount Wanted Me

By: Lydia Lloyd

Narrated by: Christy Woods

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Her reputation is at risk. He vows to help . . . but soon finds resisting her the greatest challenge of all.

When Lord Hugh Aldershot, the Viscount of Tremberley, overhears the drunken Earl of Hartley claiming to have bedded Lady Henrietta Breminster, his best friend's little sister, he is livid. He drags the passed-out earl to Breminster House... Read more

Blue Masquerade

By: T.K. Blackwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1992. Over twenty years have passed since Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was assassinated by a crazed gunman. Since that time, the Soviet Union has been put on a course toward economic success—and war.



In the Balkans, Yugoslavia's collapse into ethnic violence draws NATO and the Warsaw Pact to the brink of Armageddon. Armies... Read more

Red Front

By: T.K. Blackwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1992.



The unthinkable has happened. East and West are on a crash course for war, and the battlefield will be Germany. Peace is no longer an option and all bets are off as the Free World and the Communist Bloc descend into war. NATO forces scramble to grapple with the Soviet juggernaut, as the Reds pull out all the stops—and engineer a... Read more

White Horizon

By: T.K. Blackwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1992.



The Soviet Blitzkrieg in Germany has been beaten to a bloody halt along the Rhine River. The Reds rush masses of teenage conscripts and rusty reservists to the front, while NATO scrambles to mount a killing blow against their reeling nemesis.



The flames of war spread north to Scandinavia, embroiling Sweden and threatening Norway.... Read more

Black Seas

By: T.K. Blackwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1992. Europe is in flames. Scandinavia is under siege. Only Norway holds out against the Soviet war machine. And now the pride of the Soviet Navy, the Red Banner Northern Fleet, sallies out to finish the job.



With their armies facing annihilation, and World War III at a tipping point, the combined navies of NATO stand ready to receive... Read more

Fort Buzzard

By: William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

They were innocent men, slaughtered in the Rockies. A party of land surveyors who met their grisly fate at the hands of the Crow Indians—or so it seems. Some folks think the story is a lie. And now it's up to US Army Lieutenant Ron Stanton to figure out what really happened up there in those desolate, blood-soaked mountains. As his guides,... Read more

The Cold Light of Day

By: Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

June 1920, Ireland: The streets of Dublin seethe with revolution as the Irish Republican Army clashes with British authorities. Roving assassination squads mean nowhere is truly safe, particularly for Verity Kent and her war hero husband, Sidney. Given their celebrity as society darlings and intrepid sleuths, they must tread carefully to go... Read more

Miss Morton and the Deadly Inheritance

By: Catherine Lloyd

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Caroline has doubts when she receives an urgent invitation from a London law firm to discuss her late father's estate. After all, the dishonored Earl of Morton died without a pound sterling to pass on to his two daughters. But while immersing herself in helping Mrs. Frogerton's capricious daughter navigate the high social season, Caroline... Read more

Death and the Visitors

By: Heather Redmond

Narrated by: Siobhan Waring

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

1814, London: Foreign diplomats are descending on London in advance of the Congress of Vienna meetings to formulate a new peace plan for Europe following Napoleon's downfall. Mary and Jane's father, political philosopher William Godwin, is hosting a gathering with an advance party of Russian royal staff. The Russians are enthusiastic followers... Read more

In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow

By: Kenneth W. Harmon

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When the spirit of an American airman befriends a Japanese woman and her daughter in the days before the Hiroshima bomb, he races against time to save the ones he loves the most.



When American WWII bombardier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Japan, his spirit remains trapped as a yurei ghost. Dazed, he follows Kiyomi Oshiro, a war widow... Read more