Historical Fiction audiobooks

Prairie Nocturne

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig writes about Big Sky country with raw authenticity. Set during the 1920s, Prairie Nocturne finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she... Read more

The Blessed

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop's life is a tangled mess. Estranged from her own family, at age 16 she went to work for a preacher and his wife. When his wife died, the preacher convinced Lacey that the only decent thing to do was to marry him. That way she could continue to act as mother to the little girl who was left on his doorstop. But Lacey... Read more

Sins of a Highland Devil

By: Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the history of the Scottish Highlands, USA Today best-selling author Sue-Ellen Welfonder pens this enthralling tale. Three rival clans are battling over territory in the Glen of Many Legends. Laird of the Camerons, James, swears to lead his people to victory over the MacDonald and Mackintosh clans. But his heart sings a different... Read more

iGod

By: Sean Gray

Narrated by: David Soul

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

David Soul ('Starsky and Hutch') narrates and Simon Day ('The Fast Show') stars in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy series looking at the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths. Originally broadcast from 15 December 2010 - 19 January 2011. We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in... Read more

The Chief

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Robert McNab

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Monica McCarty transports listeners to the 14th-century Scottish highlands in this dazzling novel. Warrior Tor MacLeod is picked by Robert the Bruce to lead the fight against English rule. Despite Tor's rigid disposition and devotion to his craft, his new bride is determined to warm his heart. "Readers . will appreciate not... Read more

The Widow's Kiss

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Feather, New York Times best-selling author, takes listeners back in time to King Henry VIII's court in The Widow's Kiss. With over four million copies of her novels in print, she is an accomplished author of historical romances. Lady Guinevere Mallory has been married four times in 12 years, and each of her husbands has died mysteriously.... Read more

The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

By: Ted Riccardi

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is dead—or so most of the world thinks. His fatal plunge over the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported. But Holmes has escaped and is alive. In his immediate circle, only Holmes's brother, the lethargic genius Mycroft, knows of his survival. Even Dr. Watson thinks that the great... Read more

The Girl in the Blue Beret

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to... Read more

The Map of Time

By: Félix J. Palma

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestselling page-turner features a cast of real and imagined literary characters, cunning intertwined plots, and stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator in Victorian London.

Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical... Read more

The Heiress

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Faye Adelle

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
—Christina Dodd Whether she’s enthralling readers with the exploits of her Argeneau vampire family, transporting fans to the Scottish Highlands, or enchanting them with love affairs of the noble lords and ladies of the Regency ton, New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lynsay Sands knows how... Read more

The Countess

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
—Christina Dodd New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynsay Sands trades in highland kilts for lush ballrooms and high-waisted gowns in The Countess, the first in a brand new, sexy, laugh-out-loud funny Regency romance series. Fans of Julie Garwood, Jill Barnett, and Teresa Medeiros... Read more

Before Versailles

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Timesbestselling author Karleen Koen offers another delightful historical novel that will transport you to another time and place.Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles?After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin,... Read more

Pym

By: Mat Johnson

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed novelist Mat Johnson is the winner of the prestigious Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. After being sacked, American literature professor Chris Jaynes discovers a slave manuscript that seemingly confirms the existence of an "island of pure and utter blackness" as described in Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Soon Jaynes and a rag-tag... Read more

The Fifth Queen

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 18 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ford Maddox Ford’s masterful trilogy of historical fiction centers on Katharine Howard, a young girl of a proud, noble, and impoverished family who catches the jaded eye of Henry VIII and becomes his controversial fifth queen.In book one, The Fifth Queen, Katharine arrives at the king’s court to find its dimly lit corridors vibrating with... Read more

The Coroner’s Lunch

By: Colin Cotterill

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Laos, 1975. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-two-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled.He is expected to come up with the answers the party wants, but crafty... Read more

The American Heiress

By: Daisy Goodwin

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I... Read more

Jubilee Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The lake held special memories of her times with Jeff. Here they had spent hours talking, feeding the swans, and skipping pebbles across the smooth surface, creating circles within circles. One afternoon in particular Faith remembered. Jeff had kissed her. It was their first real kiss. In it were all Faith's dreams, her longings, her hopes, her... Read more

Between the Thames and the Tiber

By: Ted Riccardi

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially... Read more

Sweet Thursday

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jerry Farden

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"A postwar continuation of Cannery Row, [Sweet Thursday is] every bit as juicy and relaxed as the original. . . . This is comedy--bawdy, sentimental, and good fun.” The Atlantic

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to... Read more

Jamrach's Menagerie

By: Carol Birch

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident... Read more

Belladonna

By: Mary Finn

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical coming-of-age story about a boy, a girl, and a horse - and how a chance encounter can lead to a life of intrigue and learning, a life beyond imagining.When Thomas Rose first spots the girl hidden by the roadside, she looks as drab as a lark, with only her red kerchief giving her away. But French Hélène, who goes by "Ling," is no... Read more

When Passion Rules

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Forced to flee Napoleon’s rampaging army on the continent, orphaned Alana Farmer and her eccentric guardian make a new home for themselves in London. There, Alana enjoys every privilege a daughter of the nobility could hope for, plus an education fit for a queen. Now, on the eve of her debut into London Society, she learns the shocking secret of... Read more

A Young Wife

By: Pam Lewis

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A Young Wife follows the unforgettable journey of Minke Van Aisma across three continents - from a life of opulence in Amsterdam during the 1900s, to rough living on the Argentine coast, to fighting poverty as an immigrant in New York City. She is forced to leave behind a kidnapped son in Argentina, but sets upon the arduous task of struggling... Read more

West of Rehoboth

By: Alexs Pate

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and Essence best-selling author Alexs D. Pate is also a professor of African American studies at the University of Minnesota. Set in the turbulent 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the story of 12-year-old Edward Massey's summertime coming of age in the resort town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Edward and his family have escaped the heat... Read more