Historical Fiction audiobooks

Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark

By: Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, author Tilly Bagshawe takes up the mantle of the late, great Sidney Sheldon—and again, she succeeds magnificently. Written in the inimitable Sheldon style and based on extensive, never before published material from his private archives, Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark is a thrilling tale of murder, lies, and lust that the master... Read more

Your Wicked Ways

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change -- she styles her hair in the newest, daring mode, puts on a shockingly... Read more

The Irish Healer

By: Nancy Herriman

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

1830s London is rich with promise. And fraught with peril. Rachel Dunne and James Edmunds are about to discover that love is too. Rachel Dunne has always been a healer... until she’s accused of causing the death of a child under her care. Acquitted but shunned, she flees Ireland in search of a new life, convinced that she’ll be fine so long as... Read more

Eyes of Justice

By: Lis Wiehl & April Henry

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When One of the Triple Threat Is Murdered, All Eyes Turn to Justice.Cassidy, Allison, and Nicole fight for justice everyday—Cassidy as a crime reporter, Nicole as an FBI agent, and Allison as a federal prosecutor. Together they’re a Triple Threat to be reckoned with. A force that, together, has solved the toughest mysteries.Until a ruthless... Read more

The Fair Miss Fortune

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Fortune causes a stir when she arrives in the small community of Dingleford. She has bought an old cottage and plans to open a tearoom. Old friends Charles Weatherby and Harold Prestcott both fall for the newcomer, but her behaviour seems to vary wildly – she encourages first one then the other and at other times barely recognises them. Is... Read more

Derby Day

By: D. J. Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all of England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day.... Read more

The Quality of Mercy

By: Barry Unsworth

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship, including... Read more

Bhowani Junction

By: John Masters

Narrated by: Neil Hunt, Jill Tanner & Patrick Tull

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

World War II has finally played itself out, and the British are leaving India. Through this vortex is spun a fictional plot of terror and politics that illustrates all-too-well the curse that still plagues India today. You can almost smell the mixture of dust, oil, and human sweat as the train pulls into Bhowani Junction. Read more

Highland Scoundrel

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Roger Hampton

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Framed for a crime he did not commit, Duncan Campbell, the illegitimate son of a chieftain, has returned to the Highlands, determined to clear his name after ten years in exile. He is drawn to the unforgettable sensual beauty of Jeannie Gordon, the headstrong girl who once pledged him her love, gave him her innocence, and then betrayed him.... Read more

A Bitter Veil

By: Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by: Diane Piron Gelman

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian. Anna, whose parents are divorced, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is formed. Life turns... Read more

The Maid and the Queen

By: Nancy Goldstone

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Attention, Game of Thrones fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen." (Laura Miller, Salon.com)Politically astute, ambitious, and beautiful, Yolande of Aragon, queen... Read more

The Well of Lost Plots

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

asper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden... Read more

The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R.

By: Carole DeSanti

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s struggle with life and love during and after the Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.Eugénie R., born in foie gras country, follows the man she loves to Paris but soon... Read more

Elegy for Eddie

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—an investigation into the killing of a local man from Maisie’s childhood neighborhood leads the sleuth from her own doorstep to London’s halls of power.In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—“less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than... Read more

Taming an Impossible Rogue

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One
year ago, Lady Camille Pryce left her haughty fiancé at the altar—for
good reason. Not only was the marriage arranged before she could even
walk, her betrothed was too smug to exert himself to meet her! Now,
disowned, with no husband or family to support her, she's left with one
option: go to work in the notorious Tantalus Club...A... Read more

The Seduction of Lady X

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The surprising news that dashing steward Harrison Tolly, illegitimate son of the Earl of Ashwood, is the rightful heir to his father’s estate comes at a most inopportune time. With a wedding on the horizon and a baby on the way, a new life of privilege and prestige would be a blessing but for one problem: his heart belongs to another... Read more

A Duke's Temptation

By: Jillian Hunter

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Samuel Charles Aubrey St. Aldwyn, Duke of Gravenhurst, is a radical rogue and champion of unpopular causes. No one would dream that he is also the author of a bestselling series of dark historical novels, a writer accused of corrupting the morals of the public, and a master seducer who counts among his passionate fans wellborn Miss Lily... Read more

Highlander Unchained

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Lachlan Maclean will do whatever it takes to protect his clan—even if it
means abducting the most willful woman in the Highlands with the secret
intention of wooing her for marriage. A leader possessing brute
strength and an imposing command, Lachlan is unprepared for the
beautiful spitfire Flora MacLeod, who jeopardizes his plans to save his... Read more

Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Doyle Conan

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Maestro de la lógica, observador preciso y sagaz, de una inteligencia formidable y gran experto en disfraces, regresa en formato de audiolibro. La eterna creación de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, siempre acompañado de su fiel amigo el Doctor Watson. Las pistas, los malos, la sospecha y la intriga se multiplican. A su vez, las conversaciones entre... Read more

Hanging in Wild Wind

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's gritty tales effortlessly capture the glory days of the Old West. Hanging in Wild Wind finds Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack crossing the Badlands, hot on the trail of Silva "The Snake" Ceran and his gang. But this time the ranger may have bitten off more than he can chew-especially when he comes across... Read more

The Earl's Untouched Bride

By: Annie Burrows

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Burrows' fanciful historical romances have delighted readers far and wide during her lengthy career. Here, Burrows spins the tale of Heloise Bergeron, who will do anything to avoid a forced marriage to a man of infamous cruelty. But when she proposes a marriage of convenience to Charles Fawley, Earl of Walton, neither is prepared for the... Read more

Feindliche Segel

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Friede zwischen England und Frankreich "bricht aus": Die Matrosen freuen sich, aber die Offiziere sitzen buchstäblich auf dem Trockenen. Jack Aubrey hat Probleme mit der Admiralität, mit seinem Vermögen und in der Liebe pflegt er eine doppelte Moral. Stephen Maturin entpuppt sich: Er ist nicht nur der weltfremde Wissenschaftler, sondern kann... Read more

A Wild Pursuit

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers and in the corners of fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows willfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes.Three years before, the debutante created a sensation by being found in a distinctly compromising position. Now, the ton has branded her as unmarriageable, her family has... Read more

A Partial History of Lost Causes

By: Jennifer duBois

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Stephen Hoye

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
 
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and... Read more