Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shadow Pass

By: Sam Eastland

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Pekkala: He was the Romanovs’ most trusted investigator. Now he’s Stalin’s greatest fear.
 
He operates in the shadows of one of history’s most notorious regimes. He seeks the truth in a nation where finding it can mean death—or worse. His name his Inspector Pekkala, and this time he’s taking on a case with implications far deadlier than... Read more

Heart of Lies

By: Jill Marie Landis

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Maurice England

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was taught to be a thief and beggar on the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn’t know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin “brothers” have recently left New Orleans and moved to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie has come to love... Read more

The Pattern

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Shelby could never have anticipated where that "fateful encounter" would lead her. She could not have known then how love for the young, rough-hewn, mountain doctor would cause her to turn her back on her privileged lifestyle, threaten to estrange her from her family, and bring her to the wild mountains of Appalachia. If she had known... Read more

Madame Tussaud

By: Michelle Moran

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin…



Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American ambassador Thomas Jefferson to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Marie's museum provides Parisians with the... Read more

Imperial Woman

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In this audio book, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rules during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become... Read more

Ransomed Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"I won't lose you now!" said Cam in a voice ragged with emotion. The moon moved across the sky from behind the sheltering trees, and suddenly the two of them were enveloped in moonlight. "I love you, and yet I know I have no right to speak to you of this. I'm not free. I’m engaged--" "Oh, Cam, don’t!" she begged. "It cannot be. It is too late.... Read more

Blut und Silber (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Deutschland 1296: König Adolf von Nassau setzt eine gewaltige Streitmacht gegen das sächsische Freiberg in Bewegung, um die reiche Silberstadt in die Knie zu zwingen. Unter den Bürgern entbrennt ein heftiger Streit: Dürfen sie sich ihrem König widersetzen? Mittendrin im Getümmel dieser unruhigen Zeit ist Änne, eine Nachfahrin der Stadtbegründer... Read more

Midnight

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox returns with a powerful, dark love story shrouded in shocking secrets and malignant forces. All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight… Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart... Read more

Riders from Long Pines

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton writes about the Old West with equal parts glorified action and gritty authenticity. In Riders from Long Pines, Cotton crafts a sharp shoot-'em-up that is sure to broaden his already expansive fan base. When a band of drovers stumbles upon the goods that were left behind after a botched robbery, they... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene,... Read more

A Red Herring Without Mustard

By: Alan Bradley

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey—mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in... Read more

Ruthless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And among this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal desires, fewer still can match the insatiable appetite of their chief provocateur, the mysterious Viscount Rohan.



Pursuit of physical pleasure is both his preferred pastime and his... Read more

Wolf’s Cross

By: S. A. Swann

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

S. A. Swann continues to reinvent the werewolf myth in this fantastic novel set in the medieval world of the celebrated Wolfbreed. Like its predecessor, Wolf’s Cross is unafraid to cross boundaries and break taboos to tell an unforgettable story of romance and adventure that will forever change how you think about werewolves. Maria lives a... Read more

The Tudor Secret

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The era of the Tudors was one of danger, intrigue, conspiracy, and, above all, spies.Summer 1553 was a time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, has been reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Prescott finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the king’s brilliant but enigmatic sister, Princess... Read more

The Duke's Cinderella Bride

By: Carole Mortimer

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An internationally best-selling author, Carole Mortimer has penned over 150 romance novels in her remarkable career. The Duke's Cinderella Bride stars brooding Hawk St. Claire, Duke of Stourbridge and seemingly plain servant girl Jane Smith. After a chance encounter Jane pays the price for their inappropriate behavior when she is removed from... Read more

Those In Peril

By: Margaret Mayhew

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to leave his studio in Brittany and, in his small motor boat, make the short but perilous journey to England. His aim is not to flee from the enemy, but to join the Resistance to fight for his beloved France. He arrives in Dartmouth and finds his way to the... Read more

I'll Be Seeing You

By: Margaret Mayhew

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling novel of love and secrets from World War Two, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Fiona Valpy.

READERS ARE LOVING I'LL BE SEEING YOU!
"I consider Margaret Mayhew to be an exceptional author and this is one of her best offerings!" - 5 STARS
"Exceptional story kept me enthralled until the end. I loved the way this book was written." -... Read more

Marrying the Mistress

By: Juliet Landon

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Helene Follet hasn't had close contact with Lord Burl Winterson since she chose to spend her life caring for his brother. Now she's forced to live under Burl's protection, because he has become guardian to her precious young son.Burl has grown hard and cynical over the years, while Helene covers her hurt with an ice-cool front. What she really... Read more

The Street

By: Kay Brellend

Narrated by: Grace Halliday

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

'Campbell Road was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves, prostitutes, fraudsters – every sort of rogue and vagabond drifted through this slum.’ Life was tough … but so were they Alice Keiver is a sensitive girl, growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London. As the daughter of an alcoholic... Read more

The Winter Ghosts

By: Kate Mosse

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

By the author of the New York Times-bestselling Labyrinth, a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.

In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain... Read more

Notorious Pleasures

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Their lives were perfect . . .
Lady Hero Batten, the beautiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, has everything a woman could want, including the perfect fiance. True, the Marquis of Mandeville is a trifle dull and has no sense of humor, but that doesn't bother Hero. Until she meets his notorious brother . . .

Until they met each other.
... Read more

Death Cloud

By: Andrew Lane

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the summer of 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. On break from boarding school, he is staying with eccentric strangers—his uncle and aunt—in their vast house in Hampshire. When two local people die from symptoms that resemble the plague, Holmes begins to investigate what really killed them, helped by his new tutor, an American named... Read more

Don't Bargain with the Devil

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries weaves a dazzling tale of Regency manners and roguish passions in the fifth title in the seductive School for Heiresses series. As New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas raves, “Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!”Diego Montalvo, a dashing Spanish magician, is determined... Read more

Once, When We Were Young

By: Billy J. Brown

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Once, When We Were Young is the stirring story of a young Texan and his two friends who get caught up in the pre–Civil War excitement. From the formation of local military units to the great battles that decided the outcome of the war, Will’s story is told in first person narrative, combining a fascinating, well-researched sense of history with... Read more