Historical Fiction audiobooks

Trapeze

By: Simon Mawer

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of The Glass RoomBarely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in... Read more

The Cove

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Merritt Hicks

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Set during World War One, The Cove is a novel that speaks intimately to today’s politics. Beautifully written, tough, raw, uncompromising, entirely new. Ron Rash is a writer’s writer who writes for others.”
—Colum McCann“Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; The Cove solidifies his reputation as one of our very... Read more

Lady Fortescue Steps Out

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is not easy for the poor relations of England’s upper crust, but fate and clever schemes bring them together.Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if they were to transform her decrepit Bond Street home into a posh hotel, offering their guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility? With the help of other... Read more

A Simple Murder

By: Eleanor Kuhns

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

1796: When traveling weaver and former soldier Will Rees learns that his son David has run away, he immediately sets out after him. After tracking him down at a Shaker settlement near Durham, Maine, Will unexpectedly finds himself heading a murder investigation. As he adapts to the ways of the Shakers he begins to discover that some members of... Read more

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The oddly assorted group met some time ago. All of them were poor relations, the genteel paupers of society, living on little more than their dignity. They banded together and started the Poor Relation hotel, hoping to be bought out by their embarrassed relations. Though as the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But... Read more

Coming Up Roses

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson touches listeners' hearts with her captivating romances. Set in Oregon around the turn of the 20th century, Coming Up Roses finds Kate Blakely trying to move on after the death of her abusive husband. With a farm to run and a four-year-old daughter to look after, Kate can barely keep above... Read more

Wild Star

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Third in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Brent Hammond is as handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When he meets Byrony by chance, he's charmed. But when he sees her again, as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. Until her life is threatened—and he discovers that only... Read more

Lehrter Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf—assessing the strains between different... Read more

Wild Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Third in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Brent Hammond is as handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When he meets Byrony by chance, he's charmed. But when he sees her again, as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. Until her life is threatened—and he discovers that only... Read more

The Duchess Diaries

By: Jillian Hunter

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As headmistress of the Scarfield Academy for Young Ladies, Miss Charlotte Boscastle is tasked with keeping her charges free from notoriety. But when Charlotte's diary goes missing, she can't imagine having her most intimate secrets fall into the wrong hands.

Although the confessions in the diary he found spark his interest, the Duke of Wynfield... Read more

Night Shadow

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Reader,You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force—in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988.The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She... Read more

Night Fire

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England…Dear Listener,

I began writing the Night Trilogy in 1987. I’m very proud of all three novels. Perhaps Night Fire is my favorite simply because it’s so different from the other two.In Night Fire, Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley... Read more

How to Dance With a Duke

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father's exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father's name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club—and is... Read more

Night Storm

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Reader,You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force—in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988.The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She... Read more

Night Fire - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England…Dear Listener,

I began writing the Night Trilogy in 1987. I’m very proud of all three novels. Perhaps Night Fire is my favorite simply because it’s so different from the other two.In Night Fire, Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley... Read more

Night Shadow - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dear Reader,You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force—in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988.The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She... Read more

Night Storm - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dear Reader,You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force—in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988.The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She... Read more

Night Hawk

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Beverly Jenkins has penned more than 25 books for an adoring readership. With Night Hawk, Jenkins crafts a pulse-pounding tale starring one of her most intriguing characters, bounty hunter Ian Vance. "Preacher" to some, "Night Hawk" to others, Vance lost his wife, and his ability to love, many years ago. Hardened by fate,... Read more

Unmasked

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Virginia Henley's sizzling romances have garnered numerous accolades, including the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. In Unmasked, Henley fashions a tale of desire and intrigue set amid England's 17th-century royal court. When Velvet Cavendish and Greysteel Montgomery are betrothed by their parents,... Read more

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

By: Margot Theis Raven

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1948 West Berlin, Mercedes and her mother rely on the noisy American planes that form a "sky bridge" into the city, bringing vital food and supplies. But the planes deliver more than flour, clothing, and coal. Every day, one special plane wiggles its wings, and its pilot drops small candy-filled parachutes for the children. How can Mercedes... Read more

The Leopard Sword: Empire IV

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins.

The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province which has been giving him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus,... Read more

Helen Keller in Love

By: Rosie Sultan

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating novel that explores the little-known romance of a beloved American iconHelen Keller has long been a towering figure in the pantheon of world heroines, yet the enduring portrait of her in the popular imagination comes from The Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old.Rosie Sultan’s debut novel imagines a part of... Read more

The Mongoliad: Book One

By: Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph B...

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century.As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the... Read more

True Sisters

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed by Jane Smiley as a "quintessential American voice," Sandra Dallas has won over fans everywhere and become a frequent fixture on the New York Times best-seller list. Based on 19th-century history, True Sisters follows four women who pin their hopes for the future on a plan devised by Brigham Young to bring emigrants to Salt Lake City.... Read more