Historical Fiction audiobooks
Langbourne's Rebellion
By: Alan P. Landau
Narrated by: Adrian Galley
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable story of the Langbourne brothers is picked up in 1893. Morris, just 17, makes the bold and risky decision to head north, deeper into Africa. Morris and his younger brother, David, thus embark on a new adventure - to set up business as traders. After walking through the African bush for three months with six wagons laden with... Read more
View audiobookSurvival: A Story of Friendship – Part 2
By: Alice Weil
Narrated by: Alex Guilford
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Survival: A Story of Friendship – Part 2 is about the voyage Freddy and his mother, Helene, take to escape Europe and the ravages of World War II. After promising Sigmund on his deathbed that they would reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country, they make their way via ship to Colombia, the country Nellie had made her home just as... Read more
View audiobookThe Blighted Road
By: Anna McCormac
Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Blighted Road is a 17th-century story of two women’s harrowing journeys through plague and a brutal witch-hunt. Orla, renowned healer and mid-wife in rural England, confronts stillbirths and a mysterious, deadly sickness afflicting her community. The local superstitious people suspect these sinister events are the actions of the Devil.... Read more
View audiobookBright Shadow
By: Jan Middleton
Narrated by: Fiona Mitchell
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
This is the story of Katherine Plantagenet, self-proclaimed “daughter, sister and aunt of kings” who endures extraordinarily traumatic reversals of fortune, as her life swings through wealth and adversity. A glittering future as an English princess is swept away by the untimely death of her father, Edward IV, and the usurpation of her brother... Read more
View audiobookOne Week in 1952
By: Mike Cowdrey
Narrated by: Jacob Z Klimaszewski
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The story is set in June 1952 and describes one week of action between Tom, 8 years old, and his Aunt Siobhan, 18 years old, who looks after him while his parents are forced to leave home. An unexpected event enables them to holiday in Kent, where exciting adventures befall them both. Throughout the book there is a surprising comparison between... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Threads
By: Eileen Barwick
Narrated by: Issie Riley
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Nellie was brought up by her grandparents and lived in the East End of London. At the age of 19, she was able to start the job she had wanted, in a large J. Lyons & Co. Corner House tea room in London, where she became a ‘Nippy’, as the waitresses were called, where she also met her lifelong friend Connie.Soon after she also met the love of... Read more
View audiobookGeorge (The Teenage Years)
By: Gilly
Narrated by: Alex Guilford
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an introduction of George to the masses. He is the representative of a whole lost generation (lost to the government and the British public) who have recently been in the news as the revelation of who they are comes out.George tells the story of an 11-year-old Windrush boy who arrived in England from the island of Jamaica in 1965. The... Read more
View audiobookSparks - Die Magie der Funken (Ungekürzte Lesung)
By: J.R. Dawson
Narrated by: Rebecca Veil & Tim Gössler
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Der Nachtzirkus meets The Greatest Showman. J. R. Dawsons funkelndes Debüt um einen magischen Zirkus verzaubert die Hörer:innen weltweit. Wenige Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zieht eine Truppe von Zirkusartisten durch den Mittleren Westen der USA. Ihre Manege ist nicht groß, doch ihre Talente sind mehr als außergewöhnlich: Odette, eine... Read more
View audiobookFlatlands
By: Thomas Leander
Narrated by: Andrew Sykes
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Flatlands is believable and complex. This story ranks with the classic depictions of the marvel that was the Old West, that great, vanished moment in history; within its strong atmosphere of reality, fiction intertwines with known facts of the time. This novel is a study in the strength of interaction between individuals of the same family or... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Crimes of Peregrine Hind
By: Sierra Simone
Narrated by: Shane East & James Joseph
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Peregrine Hind, known to all as the bloodiest highwayman ever to bedevil the road, seeks only one thing—revenge against the Dartham family.And so when a robbery sends the second Dartham son and notorious rakehell Alexander Dartham tumbling to Peregrine’s feet, it seems like fate has given Peregrine his vengeance at last. Except then Alexander... Read more
View audiobookBérengère
By: Delly
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Elevée durement par le baron de Pelveden, Bérengère s'enfuit du château de Rosmanec, protégée par Gaspard de Sorignan qui veut se marier secrètement à Paris avec la belle mais frivole Françoise d'Erbannes.Mais les routes sont peu sûres sous le règne d'Henri III. Protestants et catholiques s'entretuent. Les fugitifs sont arrêtés et conduits... Read more
View audiobookOrgueil et préjugés
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Laurence Krambule
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Le roman le plus populaire de Jane Austen, l’histoire inoubliable d’Elizabeth Bennet et de M. Darcy.
Mrs Bennet a 5 filles à marier. Pas facile quand elles ont une petite dot, et que les prétendants se font rares. Mais un nouveau et jeune gentilhomme vient d’arriver à Netherfield Park, la propriété voisine, et les bonnes manières de la gentry... Read more
Raison et Sentiments
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Laurence Krambule
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
L'amour est-il une affaire de tête ou de cœur ? Argent et mariage sont les deux sujets de ce premier roman de Jane Austen.
Pour Elinor et Marianne Dashwood, c’est le temps de grands changements : leur père vient de mourir et l’héritier du domaine où elles vivent, fils d’un premier mariage de leur père, ne leur laisse que peu de choses pour... Read more
Persuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Laurence Krambule
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
« Comment osez-vous dire qu’un homme oublie plus vite qu’une femme, que son amour est le premier à s’éteindre ? Je n’ai aimé personne d’autre que vous. » - Jane Austen, Persuasion
Persuasion est le dernier roman entièrement achevé de Jane Austen. Il a été publié à la fin de l'année 1817, six mois après sa mort. Persuasion a fait l'objet de... Read more
Beau Démon
By: Paul Féval
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
En 1640, Ercole Vitelli assassine son cousin François, gendre et héritier du prince de Monteleone. Andréa, le fils de François, est l'unique témoin du crime. Elevé par des brigands, il devient leur chef et le fondateur de la conspiration secrète des Frères de la Miséricorde sous le nom de Bel Demonio. Il décide de revenir pour venger son... Read more
View audiobookAu fond du goufre
By: Georges Ohnet
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Malgré le fait qu'il n'est jamais cessé de clamer son innocence, Jacques de Fréneuse est accusé du meurtre de sa maitresse Léa Perelli et envoyé au bagne. Un de ses amis, le vicomte Christian de Tragomer, qui le croyait coupable, affirme un an après que Léa Perelli est vivante, il l'aurait croisé lors d'un voyage. Il décide alors avec la... Read more
View audiobookUne fille de Tel Aviv
By: Henri Amouroux
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Un garçon et une fille s'aiment dans l'Israël admirable et irritant des pionniers et des adolescents orgueilleux, des arbres de cinq ans, des frontières trop étroites. Mais, entre Jacques qui n'est pas Juif et vient de France et Ohra l'Israélienne, la guerre se glisse qui entraînera la Fille de Tel-Aviv jusqu'aux rives de Charm el Cheik, plus... Read more
View audiobookUne nièce d'Amérique
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Octavia Bassett, jolie jeune américaine du Névada rend visite à sa tante. Celle-ci habite un petit village anglais calme et ultra-conservateur. Octavia par son franc discours , ses toilettes éblouissantes et ses manières non conventionnelles produit la consternation... Read more
View audiobookLe maître de Forges
By: Georges Ohnet
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Claire de Beaulieu est une jeune et belle aristocrate, fiancée au duc de Bligny, un homme superficiel et dépensier, mais qu'elle aime malgré tout. Alors qu'une demande en mariage officielle doit être faite auprès de sa famille, le duc disparaît, préférant épouser Athénaïs Moulinet, la plus farouche ennemie de Claire, une fille sans titres, mais... Read more
View audiobookLes compagnons du silence
By: Paul Féval
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Lemée
Length: 24 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Féval a tramé cette fois de nous révéler comment sont nées les terribles sociétés secrètes dont l'Italie du Sud s'est tôt fait une noire spécialité, et qui donneront plus tard naissance à la Mafia et à la Camorra napolitaine.
Nous sommes au tout début du XIXe siècle et le comte Mario de Monteleone, cousin du roi de Naples, Ferdinand (chassé de... Read more
Solaimalai Ilavarasi
By: Kalki
Narrated by: Deepika Arun
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
சோலைமலை இளவரசி, கல்கி கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி எழுதிய புதினமாகும். இக்கதையானது இருவேறு காலகட்டங்களில் பயணிக்கின்றது. அப்பகுதிகள் ஆங்கிலேய ஆட்சிக்கு எதிராக போராடிய ஒருவரின் நிகழ்கால வாழ்வையும் மேலும் அவர் தன்னுடைய முற்பிறவி நினைவுகளைப் பெறுவதாகவும் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இக்கதை கதாநாயகனின் சுதந்திர போராட்டத்தையும், அவன் காதலையும் பற்றிக் குறிப்பிடுகின்றது. Read more
View audiobookA Brilliant Match
By: Jennie Goutet
Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A love match would not do. She would make an advantageous match—a brilliant match!
At the age of nineteen, Lady Dorothea Rowlandson was practically on the shelf. Had she not suffered her father, the earl’s, untimely death weeks before last year’s season, she would surely by now be a married lady—the established wife of an illustrious peer. With... Read more
King of Nod
By: Scott Fad
Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
“Folks say evil can’t cross water,” she told the boy, “which is why islands is ripe with all kinds’a inbred nastiness.”
Sweetpatch Island, South Carolina, 1971. For young Boo Taylor it’s a land of lush salt marshes and sun-soaked beaches, rich in history and folklore—yet steeped in superstition and hiding a terrifying secret.
After twenty years... Read more
The Puzzle Box
By: Danielle Trussoni
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fun, DaVinci Code–style blend of puzzles, mysticism and high-octane action” (People, Best Books of the Month), from the author of The Puzzle Master
“This rip-roaring adventure thriller is an escapist puzzle box of delights: a neurodivergent hero, an unsolvable mystery, and death hanging over every move.”—Catherine... Read more