Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Heiress at Sea

By: Christi Caldwell

Narrated by: Timothy Campbell

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A seafaring journey is the second chance for a lady and the last chance for a marquess in a thrilling novel about rebellious love, secrets, and danger by USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell.Perpetually unattached Lady Cassia McQuoid has accepted her fate as a spinster. But how can she be expected to lead a life confined to drawing... Read more

Der Wikinger und die schottische Nonne

By: Michelle Styles

Narrated by: Milla Mielke

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Schottland, 877. Verzweifelt flieht Lady Ceanna vor einer erzwungenen Ehe aus der elterlichen Burg. Sie will ins Kloster, ins ferne Nrurim! Wie gefährlich ihr Plan ist, erkennt sie erst, als ein hochgewachsener Wikinger ihren Weg kreuzt. Sandulf Sigurdsson flößt ihr Angst ein – und verleiht ihr zugleich Mut. Denn schon bald rettet er ihr das... Read more

Was uns durch die Zeiten trägt - Luise und Marian, Band 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Marion Johanning

Narrated by: Esther Barth

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Das mitreißende Porträt einer jungen Frau in Zeiten des Umbruchs und ein bewegender Roman über die Liebe von Bestsellerautorin Marion Johanning. Niederschlesien, 1943: Es sind schwere Zeiten in dem kleinen Dorf Lindenau. Auf dem Hof der Familie Reich müssen alle mit anpacken, auch die junge Luise. Sie schwärmt heimlich für den drei Jahre... Read more

Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Kingsley Amis

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Gayle Hunnicutt, Iain Cut...

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Adaptations of Kingley Amis’s great novels and acclaimed short stories

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two... Read more

Hope Under Fire

By: Caroline Dunford

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in London during the Blitz, Hope Under Fire is the fourth exciting spy thriller in Caroline Dunford's World War II Hope Stapleford Adventures.
It is late August 1940 and British Intelligence agent Hope Stapleford is desperate to join the Special Operations Executive. But spymaster Fitzroy, now Hope's stepfather, has promised to protect her,... Read more

Coffin Island

By: Kate Ellis

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the gripping new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.
'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES

Despite many years living in South Devon, DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of St Rumon's. That is until erosion from a storm reveals three bodies... Read more

The Last Reich

By: Brian Klein

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A heinous, co-ordinated plot to attack a series of prominent synagogues, located across five different continents, is scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur - the Jewish Day of Atonement. For that one day of the year, celebrated prayer houses will be packed to the rafters with Jewish worshippers and the results could prove to be devastating. The... Read more

The Butterfly Garden

By: Rachel Burton

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and beautiful tale of love, loss and secrets. Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore, Lorna Cook and Kathryn Hughes.'One of those rare books that opened an escape door for me away from the worries of the present into a glorious story' – Louise Douglas, bestselling author of The House by the Sea1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage,... Read more

Acts of War

By: James Young

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

March 1942: Adolf Hitler is dead at the hands of the Royal Air Force. A vengeful Luftwaffe has exacted the Third Reich’s revenge on Great Britain, and London lies in flames. With the Royal Family fleeing to Canada and Great Britain’s Pacific colonies being ceded to Imperial Japan, the United States faces a stark, dangerous future alone. With a... Read more

Betty ja muutosten aika

By: Kaisa Ikola

Narrated by: Anu Vilhunen

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Skotlantiin sijoittuvan tunnelmallisen sarjan viides osa. Bettyn maine runoilijana on kiirinyt halki Skotlannin, ja nouseva kirjailijanura sekä Koivurannan talon arki pitävät elämän kiireisinä. Kustantaja houkuttelee Bettyä kiertueelle, mutta lähteminen ei ole enää yksinkertaista. Bettystä on nimittäin tullut äiti sekä pienelle pojalle että... Read more

Arpalippu

By: Salme Setälä

Narrated by: Johanna Kuuva

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Saammeko esitellä: 1920-luvun Bridget Jones! Arkkitehti Irma Saareks asustaa kimppakämpässä eikä uhraa ajatustakaan seurustelulle – tai kenties yhden tai kaksi silloin tällöin. Varsinkin kun vastaan tulee muuan varatuomari Antti Kotra. Mies on melkoinen vekkuli, mutta Irma ei saa tätä mielestään. Kun Irma voittaa arpajaisissa matkalipun... Read more

The Electric State

By: Simon Stålenhag

Narrated by: Sura Siu & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

*Soon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt releasing on March 14th, 2025*

A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror.

In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange... Read more

Anita Garibaldi - Ein Leben für die Freiheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Karin Seemayer

Narrated by: Jenny Laura Bischoff

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brasilien, 1839: Die unkonventionelle Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva ist gerade achtzehn Jahre alt, als sie in ihrer Heimatstadt Laguna dem berühmten italienischen Freiheitskämpfer Giuseppe Garibaldi begegnet. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick, und Garibaldi, der die brasilianische Guerilla unterstützt, hätte sich keine mutigere oder... Read more

Im Jahr der Flut - Vier Frauen und ein Jahrhundertbauwerk, das die Welt verändert - Nord-Ostsee-Saga, Band 3 (Ungekürzt)

By: Lena Johannson

Narrated by: Svantje Wascher

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

1900. Aufbruch in eine neue Zeit. Der Kanal ist fertiggestellt, doch schon bald ist klar, dass er erweitert werden muss. Mimi begleitet ihren Vater zu Einsätzen seines Schiffsbergungsvereins und zur Baustelle der neuen Schleuse. Justines Bemühungen haben sich ausgezahlt, ihr Geschäft prosperiert. Doch plötzlich taucht ihr Vormund auf und... Read more

Courage for the Clarks Factory Girls

By: May Ellis

Narrated by: Katherine Press

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming and gripping saga series perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Rosie Clarke.1915: As war continues to rage across the Channel, the families of the Somerset village of Street can no longer avoid its long shadow.Workers in the Clarks shoe factory, at the heart of the village, have left for the army in droves, and news from the... Read more

Yorick

By: John Pilkington

Narrated by: Christopher Tester

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Denmark.

12th century.

In the castle of Kronborg, during the reign of the mighty King Rorik, an unwanted child is born to a lowly servant, Gitte, and an unknown father. But the boy Erik, later known as Yorick, will climb to a position of power that will prove his undoing.

Unruly but quick-witted, Yorick rises from humble stable-boy to joining the... Read more

Диктатор

By: Роберт Харрис

Narrated by: Станислав Федорчук

Length: 19 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

В истории Древнего Рима фигура Марка Туллия Цицерона одна из самых значительных и, возможно, самых трагических. Ученый, политик, гениальный оратор, сумевший искусством слова возвыситься до высот власти… Козни влиятельных врагов во главе с народным трибуном Клодием, несправедливое обвинение и полтора года изгнания… Возвращение в Рим, гражданская... Read more

Promises to the Dead

By: Mary Downing Hahn

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story listeners won't soon forget. Aiding and abetting an escaped slave is against the law, and it goes against everything Jesse Sherman has been taught. But he has promised a dying runaway slave that he will take her... Read more

Leap of Faith

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A managing beauty. A determined bachelor. A delightful romp!



When their elderly guardian dies, Faith Whitford is determined to set up house in Bath and look for respectable country gentlemen for her four sisters. She has no ambitions for mingling with the ton. What she did not expect was a new guardian, in the form of a London Beau to be... Read more

Finding Hope

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Forbidden love. Duty. Danger. Will love be enough to conquer all?



Max, Lord Rotham, has been browbeaten by his mother, the Duchess of Davenmere, to marry her choice for him. The more he resists, the more she schemes to force the match upon him. He became connected with the beauty Hope Whitford when her and her sisters were entangled in a... Read more

A Regrettable Charade

By: Laura Beers

Narrated by: Jennifer Smith

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of a Gold Medal in the 2024 The Bookfest Awards



To protect her, he must stay away. But will his heart obey?



Lady Octavia Westlake made a promise to her ailing mother that she would enjoy herself this Season, embracing the glittering festivities with grace and charm. But beneath her poised exterior, she is conflicted and struggles with what... Read more

Blackmailer's Delight

By: David Lawrence

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Every new romance has its ups and downs . . . Its bumps in the road . . . Its blackmail notes . . .



England 1795: London gentleman Daniel Thornton has just dumped his philandering lover Clarence. He moves to Grantham to care for his ailing uncle and nurse a broken heart. The move he hopes will be a fresh start—a place to discover himself and... Read more

The Happy Housekeeper's Guide to Homicide

By: Blythe Baker

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloody murder is the last thing on Barbara Hollis's mind when she agrees to travel to a sleepy little town to keep house for her widowed brother. Aside from chasing after her irritating young nephews, she thinks the biggest challenge she'll face is learning to cook a proper soufflé. But a bizarre encounter on a train quickly draws her into a... Read more

The Happy Housekeeper's Guide to Arson

By: Blythe Baker

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Suspicion. Lies. Murder. Barbara Hollis didn't expect to encounter any of these in small town life. With a murky past to hide from, moving to quiet little Cobbsville was supposed to be a perfect escape. But a neighbor who has her own dangerous secret to conceal soon becomes as big a threat as the crazed lunatic who is setting fire to houses... Read more