Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Stress of Her Regard

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before he is to be married, Michael Crawford joins his friends for an evening of drinking and revelry. In a fateful, inebriated moment, Crawford slips his fiancée’s ring on the finger of a nearby statue. The following day, the statue is gone.When Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to... Read more

The Daughter's Walk

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. 
 
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their... Read more

Elizabeth I

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth Tudor.

England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys—Elizabeth's flame-haired, look-alike coussin—thinks she knows all too... Read more

The FitzOsbornes in Exile

By: Michelle Cooper

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Michelle Cooper combines the drama of pre-War Europe with the romance of debutante balls and gives us another compelling historical page turner.

Sophia FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Germans attacked, and now find themselves in the lap of luxury. Sophie's journal fills us in on the social... Read more

Wed Him Before You Bed Him

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

At eighteen, Charlotte Page made a life-altering mistake.She wronged a man in an impulsive act that she came to deeply regret, though it led to her present life as Mrs. Charlotte Harris, owner of Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies. Unbeknownst to her, that man is now her anonymous benefactor, the mysterious “Cousin Michael.” His masquerade... Read more

The Musgraves

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The tangled destinies of an unusual family are played out against the backdrop of the English countryside where two pretty sisters and a beautiful widow take center stage in a drama of dangerous flirtation and backstairs gossip. Esther Musgrave, an attractive widow, has her hands full trying to keep her energetic family together – and on... Read more

La Princesse De Clèves (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

By: Madame de Lafayette

Narrated by: Melody Grove, Liam Brennan, Candida Benson & Fu...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Lafayette's classic tale of intrigue and love, ‘La Princesse de Clèves’, dramatised for BBC Radio 3 and originally broadcast in the ‘Drama on 3’ slot on 28 February 2010. Set in the 16th Century, the play follows the life of a beautiful young lady newly presented to Court. It's the reign of Henri II and Mary Queen of Scots is safely... Read more

Breathless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur—known to many as the Scorpion.

Seeking to destroy the Rohans, Lucien traps Miranda in a... Read more

Bliss, Remembered

By: Frank Deford

Narrated by: Pam Ward & Traber Burns

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time. In Bliss, Remembered, Deford explores new territory as he tells two love stories from the... Read more

Mothers and Daughters

By: Rae Meadows

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and luminous novel about three generations of women in one family: the love they share, the dreams they refuse to surrender, and the secrets they hold

Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhood—the softness of her eight-month-old daughter's skin, the lovely weight of her child in her arms—but in trading her artistic dreams to care for... Read more

It Happened One Season

By: Stephanie Laurens, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Candic...

Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Anne Flosnik

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling historical romance superstars Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with beloved fan favorites Jacquie D’Alessandro and Candice Hern—the four authors who brought you It Happened One Night—are back with It Happened One Season. Even more inventive than their bestselling first anthology, It Happened One Season presents... Read more

The School of Night

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From Louis Bayard, an ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuries

In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the... Read more

The Land of Painted Caves

By: Jean M. Auel

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 34 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and, above all, courage.As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave—a shelter of stone. Ayla has been chosen... Read more

Voyage to the North Star

By: Peter Nichols

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Nichols' novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on best-seller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing combination of high-seas adventure and human folly. It is also filled with authentic detail, since Nichols is an experienced sailor who has... Read more

The Pledge

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the death of her father, Jo-Beth, her brother, and their mother, Johanna, move in with relatives in town. There, Johanna makes a living sewing her exquisite quilts and Jo-Beth discovers a special friend. Kind, thoughtful, and deep, Wesley Rutherford draws Jo-Beth like a magnet. . .and their attachment to one another becomes strong. Strong... Read more

God’s Handmaiden

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him... Read more

A Lesson in Secrets

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.”... Read more

Mine is the Night

By: Liz Curtis Higgs

Narrated by: Liz Curtis Higgs

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED.
HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED.
BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM?

Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered... Read more

The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. Sorel uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find... Read more

The Black Jackals

By: Iain Gale

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The start of a brand new WWII series from Iain Gale, author of Alamein. A masterly portrayal of World War Two heroism, with vivid action and stirring personal journeys. A small team of soldiers, left behind to cover the British retreat, are ordered to blow the bridge as late as possible to stem the German tank... Read more

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

By: Diana L. Paxson

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Tiriki is a Guardian of the Light, but she has grown up in the shadow of the curse of Atlantis. Graceful and gifted, she is the beloved wife and partner of Micail, a spiritual leader and prince. But when disaster divides them, she must find her own path in a new land, and the world she discovers could change her innermost desires forever. Will... Read more

Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Three Tales of Betrayal

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Cases of betrayal haunt these three masterful tales starring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's cunning, brilliant detective: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "Silver Blaze," and "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.""A Scandal in Bohemia" is a story of love, intrigue, and scandal as Holmes first encounters New Jersey born opera singer Irene Adler. In "Silver... Read more

Instruments of Darkness

By: Imogen Robertson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and... Read more