Historical Fiction audiobooks

续水泊梁山

By: 佚名

Narrated by: 石家兴

Length: 99 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

本书书接：评书大师袁阔成先生的评书名作“水泊梁山”。由袁派评书传人石家兴先生演播。全书分为上中下卷。上卷（1-161集）记述梁山好汉大闹神州擂之后，回到梁山泊，受朝廷招安，奉朝廷旨意，进行征讨方腊等激烈争战场面，也插叙了武松、鲁智深、宋江等英雄出世的故事。本书情节曲折、激烈、荡气回肠，令人身临其境。中卷（162-230集）梁山好汉受朝廷招安，大部分被奸臣所害。梁山英雄中尚存的李俊、燕青等三十二位英雄再度起义,由反抗贪官污吏,转为反抗入侵的金兵,惩治火锅通奸的奸臣、叛将,最后到海外传里基业的故事.书中对坚持忠义、不畏奸邪脸上好汉的歌颂,对祸国殃民,出卖民族利益的奸佞小人进行鞭挞,对梁山好汉海外立国进行歌颂和称赞。下卷（231-276）叙宋徽宗时,落难公子周顺与表兄徐文彪、江湖好汉尉迟宵、... Read more

The Unsealing

By: Robert Brighton

Narrated by: Robert Brighton

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Named BookLife Editor's Pick - "... Written with grace and power, capturing the moment that electricity lit up the world ..." "An addictive page-turner with rich historical details ..." - Kirkus ReviewsA gripping, lush, immersive historical mystery inspired by a 'true crime of the century' that shocked the world, set against the 1901... Read more

Töchter des Nordmeeres - Lucias Entscheidung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Ines Thorn

Narrated by: Verena Wolfien

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Auf der norwegischen Insel Smøla wurden vor vielen Jahren in einer Winternacht zwei Säuglinge auf verschiedenen Häuserschwellen abgelegt. Inzwischen sind Liv und Lucia beide erwachsen und wieder auf die Insel zurückgekehrt. Liv hat ihren Weg als Wissenschaftlerin erfolgreich beschritten - gegen viele Widerstände. Lucia hingegen wurde vom Leben... Read more

Huruslahden arpajaiset

By: Martti Issakainen

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Tositapahtumiin perustuva sotaromaani vie keskelle sisällissodan veritekoja. Varkauden ruukinkylässä tehdas elättää niin herrat kuin työläiset. Näkemykset ansioista ja oikeudenmukaisuudesta vetävät ylitsepääsemättömän juovan työväen ja tehtaanjohtaja Hjalmarin luotsaaman yläluokan välille. Työläisten rivit rakoilevat, kun rauhanomaista... Read more

A Fall from Grace

By: Jennie Goutet

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

She needs a champion. He needs one less person to worry about.

Selena Lockhart comes with neither dowry nor connections, and she knows better than to expect Society to give her a welcome—especially after her father gambled away his fortune, precipitating the family’s sudden fall from grace and Selena’s betrothed to break off their engagement. It... Read more

Philippa Holds Court

By: Jennie Goutet

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s capable of many things—including driving him mad.

At the start of their London Season, Philippa Clavering discovers her friend Susan is being pursued by the wrong gentleman and decides to turn Susan’s head to a worthier suitor. Not one to shrink from what she views as her duty and gift, Philippa sets plans in motion to bring about the happy... Read more

The Sport of Matchmaking

By: Jennie Goutet

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For once, he has met a lady less inclined to marry than he is. How unfortunate that she is the only bride he will consider.

George Clavering is much too young to think about getting married. Yes, his older brother—and even his younger sister—have managed to tie the knot, but he has plenty more years of play and sporting events ahead of him before... Read more

His Disinclined Bride

By: Jennie Goutet

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Theirs is not a love match. She’ll make sure of it.

Kitty Stokes never imagined she’d be so weak as to sacrifice herself on the altar of family obligations, but when the only alternative to marriage with Lord Hayworth is to play nursemaid to her brother’s children, Kitty reluctantly agrees. On her wedding day, she’s certain she has made a grave... Read more

The Body in Seven Dials

By: H.L. Marsay

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the remarkable life of Dorothy Peto, the Metropolitan Police’s first female superintendent.

In 1914, the idea of a female police officer is dismissed as absurd, but to a small group of determined women, not impossible.

With men departing to fight for king and country, women have new opportunities at home. Dorothy Peto and her fellow... Read more

A Death in Chelsea

By: H.L. Marsay

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the remarkable life of Dorothy Peto, the Metropolitan Police’s first female superintendent.

During war, death isn’t only found on the battlefield …

It’s 1915 and war continues to rage across Europe, but at home in England, the members of the Women Police Volunteers are more accepted and their numbers continue to grow. However, founding... Read more

Einfach lieben - Glückstöchter-Dilogie, Band 2 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Stephanie Schuster

Narrated by: Elisabeth Günther

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In den bayerischen Alpen 1911: Auf einer abgeschiedenen Alm, umgeben von grünen Weiden und wild wachsenden Pflanzen, ist Anna auf sich allein gestellt. Mit ihrem botanischen Wissen und ihrer Töpferkunst versucht sie sich ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Allerdings ist sie den Widrigkeiten der Natur ausgeliefert und muss erst lernen, damit umzugehen.... Read more

Nachkriegszeit und Wirtschaftswunder. Annette Hess trifft Carmen Korn - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Annette Hess & Carmen Korn

Narrated by: Annette Hess, Carmen Korn, Joachim Scholl & Cla...

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Warum lässt uns die Nachkriegszeit nicht los? Annette Hess beschäftigt sich in ihren preisgekrönten Drehbüchern schon lange mit dieser Frage: "Ku'damm 56" und "Ku'damm 59" sind auf riesige Resonanz gestoßen. In ihrem Romandebüt "Deutsches Haus" wird die junge Eva Bruhns 1963 aus Zufall Dolmetscherin beim Auschwitzprozess. Die Arbeit löst... Read more

Tabula rasa mit Feridun Zaimoglu und Karen Duve - lit.COLOGNE live (ungekürzt)

By: Feridun Zaimoglu & Karen Duve

Narrated by: Feridun Zaimoglu, Karen Duve & Christian Schärf

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Duves neuer Roman "Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer" wurde von Leser:innen und Kritik gefeiert. Endlich ein historischer Roman, der eine vielschichtige, mutige Frauenfigur ins Zentrum stellt. "Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, plötzlich quicklebendig" und "hinreißend kurzweilig" urteilte die Süddeutsche Zeitung. "Es geht um das Porträt einer... Read more

Wait Softly Brother

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Narrated by: Helen K. Taylor

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world.... Read more

Von Mühlen und Menschen:

By: Alphonse Daudet

Narrated by: Peter Bieringer

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Von Mühlen und Menschen: Geschichten aus der Provence von Alphonse Daudet, gelesen von Peter Bieringer. Alphonse Daudet schrieb leichtfüßige, lichtdurchflutete Prosa. Den literarischen Strömungen seiner Zeit schien er sich zu entziehen. Edmond de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert und Emile Zola schätzten ihn als anregenden Gesprächspartner.... Read more

Las damas de Grace Adieu

By: Susanna Clarke

Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda & Daniel Ortiz

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Un mundo de fantasía en el que historia y magia se entrelazan de manera prodigiosa Por la autora de JONATHAN STRANGE Y EL SEÑOR NORRELL Tras las verdes colinas y los bosques silenciosos se ocultan confines misteriosos, más allá de los cuales la realidad se pliega en formas mágicas y llenas de peligros. Los protagonistas tienen que vérselas con... Read more

A Grave for a Thief

By: Douglas Skelton

Narrated by: David Monteath

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief's life… is death.
Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them.

The problem is, he has... Read more

Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace

By: Solange Burrell

Narrated by: Maria Gbeleyi

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1748. Elewa, known as ‘the Daughter of Peace', bears a heavy responsibility on her young shoulders: to maintain the fragile truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom.

But as she begins to understand her role in the peace negotiations, even greater pressures emerge. Elewa discovers that she has Yeseni, a powerful... Read more

Condottiere

By: Griff Hosker

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir John Hawkwood is not getting any younger but he is now the supreme condottiero, not only in Italy but the whole of Europe. When the two rival popes try to manipulate him he has to use new skills to outwit them. He finds himself facing almost insurmountable odds when he is attacked by the Milanese and Veronese. He faces defeat at Castagnaro... Read more

The Last Viking

By: Griff Hosker

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The journey of Erik the Viking is almost done but the Norns have not yet finished spinning and their webs threaten to engulf Erik, his family and his growing clan. He may be getting old, but Erik is still a force to be reckoned with and when others falter, the last Viking in the New World is there to steer the clan to safety.

This is the last... Read more

Sentinel of the North

By: Griff Hosker

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sir William and his father, Sir Thomas of Stockton, the grandson of the Warlord, return from the crusade, they have to fight a new enemy: The Scots. Now that Queen Joan has died then King Alexander of Scotland is under the influence of the French. Sir William has to defend a perilously under protected border. King Henry loses a disastrous... Read more

Das Mädchen mit dem blauen Stern

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Ursula Berlinghof

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Die berührende Geschichte einer Freundschaft und lebensgefährlichen Rettung

Krakau, 1942: Als die Nazis im jüdischen Ghetto eine Razzia durchführen, bleibt Sadie und ihrer Familie nur die Flucht in die Kanalisation. In der Finsternis unterhalb der Stadt sehnt sich Sadie nach Licht und den glücklichen Tagen ihrer Kindheit. Auf einem ihrer... Read more

Mord in der Pell Street - Molly Murphy ermittelt-Reihe, Band 10 (Ungekürzt)

By: Rhys Bowen

Narrated by: Henrike Tönnes

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Molly Murphy zwischen Hochzeitsglocken und Mordermittlungen ... Die spannende Cosy-Crime-Reihe von Rhys Bowen geht weiter! Mollys Hochzeit mit NYPD-Captain Daniel Sullivan rückt immer näher, und um diese vorzubereiten, besucht Molly ihre Schwiegermutter in spe auf dem Land. Nicht nur, dass sie sich von ihr darüber belehren lassen muss, was eine... Read more

Loreley - Die Frau am Fluss - Loreley-Romane, Band 1 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Susanne Popp

Narrated by: Verena Wolfien

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestsellerautorin Susanne Popp (Die Teehändlerin) führt an die Ufer des Rheins und den sagenumwobenen Felsen in die Zeit von Heine und Brentano Bacharach am Rhein, 1817. Julie ist eine mittellose Waise und lebt bei einer Pflegefamilie, die ihr keine Liebe entgegenbringt. Die Schönheit des Mädchens sorgt immer wieder für Eifersucht und Streit.... Read more