Historical Fiction audiobooks

Back in Society

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is finally looking up for the poor relations. The Prince of Wales’ coat of arms gleams over the hotel entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by the open-handed Prince Hugo and his entourage. The owners have taken on a new partner, Mr. Jason Davy, a popular actor. Even curmudgeonly Sir Philip hasn’t uttered anything loathsome for... Read more

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt, and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange. Oscar discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders... Read more

Emily Dennistoun

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Emma D'Inverno

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Dennistoun lives alone with her elderly tyrannical father at Borriston Hall on the Scottish coast. Her mother died many years before, and her younger brother is at Oxford, presented with opportunities that Emily can only dream of. She has few friends and lives through her writing. Then she meets Francis, and despite vicissitudes of... Read more

Bedding Lord Ned

By: Sally MacKenzie

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Determined to find a husband, Miss Eleanor "Nell" Bowman attends a ball put on by the Duchess of Greycliffe, fondly referred to as the Duchess of Love. But she roundly dismisses the suitors the matchmaking hostess has invited on her behalf. For it's the duchess' dashing son Ned, Lord Edward, who long ago captured Nell's heart—and roused her... Read more

The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman running a prestigious London auction house? Preposterous! But that is exactly what Emma Fairbourne intends to do when her father dies, leaving her the reins of this fabulous enterprise.  Of course, she is not addlepated enough to do this openly and scare away her wealthy collectors.  So she and her friend concoct a deception, hiring a... Read more

Dangerous in Diamonds

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duke of Castleford has been so bad for so long that scandal can't be bothered to rise up around him anymore. To alleviate the boredom of his privileged life, he occupies himself with drinking and whoring, not to mention the occasional duel. When something piques his interest, however, he has been known to emerge from his ennui and employ his... Read more

The Scarlet Letter - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Bob Sessions

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Bob Sessions.

'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'

Fiercely... Read more

To Marry an Heiress

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The USA Today bestselling author returns with an unforgettable tale of a marriage of convenience that becomes a love match.When Georgina Pierce first enters a glittering London ballroom, she feels like a princess in a fairy tale. But this American heiress quickly learns that some London gentlemen are fortune hunters...Still, when Devon... Read more

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton

By: Elizabeth Speller

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling manor, a venerable church, and a memorial to the village's soldiers, almost all of whom died in one bloody battle. Now peace prevails, but Easton Deadall remains haunted by tragedy - as does the Easton family. In 1911,... Read more

Thief of Shadows

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A MASKED MAN . . .

Winter Makepeace lives a double life. By day he's the stoic headmaster of a home for foundling children. But the night brings out a darker side of Winter. As the moon rises, so does the Ghost of St. Giles-protector, judge, fugitive. When the Ghost, beaten and wounded, is rescued by a beautiful aristocrat, Winter has no idea... Read more

The Orphanmaster

By: Jean Zimmerman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan

In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. Among those looking into the mystery are a shrewd young Dutch... Read more

The Reckoning

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a “fascinating” (Cliché Magazine) and passion-fueled journey that transcends the boundaries of time.

Lanore McIvlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her... Read more

Woe to Live On

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without... Read more

In the Kingdom of Men

By: Kim Barnes

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a... Read more

The Legion (Eagles of the Empire 10)

By: Simon Scarrow

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LEGION is the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell.

When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the... Read more

The Queen's Lover

By: Francine Du Plessix Gray

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Historical fiction of the highest order, The Queen’s Lover reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel Von Fersen and Marie Antoinette  The Queen’s Lover begins at a masquerade ball in Paris in 1774, when the dashing Swedish nobleman Count Axel Von Fersen first meets the mesmerizing nineteen-year old Dauphine Marie... Read more

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Brooke Shields & Paul Rudd

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a century after L. Frank Baum first released this magical tale of a young girl, Brooke Shields entrances a new generation of young listeners with her narration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 

Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her
and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land... Read more

Mission to Paris

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author and the “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris.

At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star, Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arrives in Paris, on loan from Warner Brothers... Read more

War Brides

By: Helen Bryan

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller with over one million readers.With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to... Read more

The Third Gate

By: Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason... Read more

A Lady Awakened

By: Cecilia Grant

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a... Read more

What the Duke Desires

By: Jenna Petersen

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The duke always gets exactly what he wants . . .As the new Duke of Billingham, Simon Crathorne has one main duty to fulfill: find a proper wife and continue his family's exalted name. But of all the eligible women who have come to his country party, he desires only one. And she may be the most unsuitable bride of all.Lillian Mayhew is desperate... Read more

Love with a Scandalous Lord

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Robin Rowan

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For as long as she can remember, Lydia Westland has dreamed of glittering London society. Finding herself at last in England, she is determined to make the most of this opportunity. Clutching her copy of ′Blunders in Behaviour Corrected′ she sets forth to find a suitably titled husband. But what she finds instead is Rhys Rhodes, a second son... Read more

The Poison Tree

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

1831: as England emerges from the post war depression, the country is changing, and the birth pains of the Reform Act bring it to the brink of revolution.

The violent times breed violent acts, both outside and inside the Morland family. Sophie's life is shattered by a hideous crime. Rosamund learns that achieving her dreams brings as much pain as... Read more