Historical Fiction audiobooks

I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive

By: Steve Earle

Narrated by: Steve Earle

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.In 1963, ten years after Hank’s death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Since he lost his license... Read more

Sharpe’s Sword

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin.He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once.Now he's getting a second chance.Colonel Leroux is killing Britain's most valuable spies, and it's up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
 
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal... Read more

Sharpe’s Honor

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a perfect plot for Napoleon: stop Wellington’s forces in Spain and destroy Major Richard Sharpe.Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army’s new campaign with grim expectancy. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain—an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. Unfortunately, things... Read more

Sharpe’s Eagle

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of those rare novels that completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history.At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but... Read more

Sharpe’s Enemy

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Only one man stands between Napoleon’s army and a British defeat—Major Richard Sharpe.A band of renegades led by Sharpe’s vicious mortal enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage in a strategic mountain pass. Newly promoted, Major Sharpe is given the task of rescuing them. On the other side of the pass,... Read more

Rushed to the Altar

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A best-selling author of more than 25 historical romances, Jane Feather boasts more than 10 million copies of her books in print. Rushed to the Altar kicks off a new trilogy in high style. In order to inherit a fortune, Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, must rescue a "fallen woman." So when a lady of the night attempts to pick his pocket, he... Read more

Sharpe’s Regiment

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this installment of the bestselling historical fiction series featuring Major Richard Sharpe, a corrupt political enemy is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment—and to destroy Sharpe's life.After reluctantly returning to England in order to march into France with his regiment, Sharpe discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells... Read more

Sharpe’s Revenge

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When his honor and reputation are at stake, Sharpe seeks revenge—at any cost.It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent—if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops... Read more

The Story of Beautiful Girl

By: Rachel Simon

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow.... Read more

Doc

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp.... Read more

The Pilgrim of Hate

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence—and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. In the spring, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey, carrying with it many strange souls…and perhaps the knight's killer.Brother Cadfael's shrewd eyes see all: the... Read more

An Excellent Mystery

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year of our Lord 1141, two monks ride into the Benedictine abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, bringing with them disturbing news of war—and a mystery. The strangers tell how the strife between the Empress Maud and King Stephen has destroyed the town of Winchester and their priory. Now Brother Humilis, who is handsome, gaunt, and very... Read more

Yankee Bride / Rebel Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For some reason at just that moment, Garnet glanced up at the house and thought she saw a shadowy figure standing at the window of the downstairs master bedroom in the wing Malcolm shared with Rose. With a little clutching sensations, Garnet wondered if Rose had seen her talking with Malcolm and if she minded that Garnet's had been the last... Read more

Too Rich for a Bride

By: Mona Hodgson

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With a head more suited to bookkeeping than a bridal veil, Ida’s dreams include big business- not beaus. 
 
Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado for one reason: to work for the infamous but undeniably successful businesswoman, Mollie O’Bryan. Ida’s sisters may be interested in... Read more

Prophecy

By: S.J. Parris

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth’s palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult.

It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align—an astrologi­cal phenomenon that occurs once every thousand years and... Read more

Caleb's Crossing

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a... Read more

A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired... Read more

How To Be An Internee With No Previous Experience

By: Colin Shindler

Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Anton Lesser, Gunnar Cauthrey, S...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 fictionalised account of the interrogation of P.G. Wodehouse (Tim McInnerny) by MI5 during World War II. 'How to be an Internee with No Previous Experience ' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 December 2010. In 1944, P.G. Wodehouse, the creator of 'Jeeves and Wooster', was questioned by MI5 after broadcasting... Read more

A Courtesan's Scandal

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Bergeron is the beautiful and mysterious former mistress of a cloth merchant... and the latest beauty to capture the interest of the Prince of Wales. Mired in a disastrous divorce, the Prince attempts to distract attention from his next amorous pursuit by ordering Grayson Christopher, the eligible Duke of Darlington, to pretend to London... Read more

Dream Watchman

By: Tina Roberts

Narrated by: Alice White (Synthesised) & Synthesised Voice

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesised version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
Dream Watchman: Quest for the Missing Talisman is destined to become an epic... Read more

Angel of Harlem

By: Kuwana Haulsey

Narrated by: Brenda Pressley

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn's life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her... Read more

Last of the Amazons

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Christine McMurdo-Wallis, Alyssa Bresnahan & Ge...

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Pressfield is the internationally best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War. An epic of love and war, Last of the Amazons is a gripping, imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with Pressfield's trademark extraordinary attention to detail. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the... Read more

Only Love

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell adds a bold chapter to her impressive body of romantic fiction with Only Love. She has won the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award and has over seven million copies of her works in print. Shannon Conner grew up in a Colorado cabin, isolated from the world. Now, she lives as... Read more