Historical Fiction audiobooks

Wait For The Dawn

By: Jess Foley

Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court will absolutely love this emotionally charged and unmissable romantic saga of one woman's search for love and fulfilment from much loved author Jess Foley.

'An earthy tale of love, longing and tragedy' -- Swindon Evening Advertiser
'Dramatic and satisfying' -- Iris Gower
'Read it in one... Read more

Lieutenant Fury

By: G.S. Beard

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

If you like Hornblower and Sharpe, you will love this all-action nautical page-turner from much loved author G.S.Beard. You'll feel as if you are in the midst of the action!

'If you like sea stories, you will enjoy this, and even if you think you don't but enjoy things like Sharpe, it might just convert you' - HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
'Kept me... Read more

Storming the Castle: An Original Short Story

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. What Miss Phillipa Damson needs is a good, old fashioned knight in shining armor. What she has is a fiancé she never wanted and a compelling urge to run away. But if she manages to escape, will she find her happily ever after? Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most popular and dramatic stories.

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens’s... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great... Read more

The Secret Wedding

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo Beverley pens romance novels of immense appeal, as evidenced by her frequent appearances on the New York Times best-seller list. In this installment of Beverley's Georgian Secrets trilogy, young Dorcas Caroline Froggatt rushes into marriage with a soldier who defends her honor. Supposedly killed soon after going off to war, the erstwhile... Read more

Some Like it Wicked

By: Teresa Medeiros

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A multiple RITA Award finalist and Waldenbooks Award winner, New York Times best-selling author Teresa Medeiros has won the hearts of millions with her delectable romances. When Highland beauty Catriona Kincaid storms Newgate Prison to seek the help of disgraced nobleman and notorious rogue Simon Wescott, she is prepared to offer him both wealth... Read more

Indigo Blue

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of romance fiction's most popular storytellers, Catherine Anderson hits the New York Times best-seller list with each of her scintillating works. Reissued after being out of print for many years, Indigo Blue is one of Anderson's early gems. In it, a high-spirited woman named Indigo-who is half Comanche and half white-lives a solitary... Read more

Follow the River

By: James Alexander Thom

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit.

With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one... Read more

The Walking Drum

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century.
 
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge,... Read more

Vixen

By: Jillian Larkin

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.

Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
 
Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian... Read more

Taliesin

By: Stephen R. Lawhead

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Taliesin, oracle of melody. His singing bore the haunting beauty of another world and the spark of a kingdom yet to come.Charis, Lady of the Lake. Driven by the cataclysm that destroyed her home—the scented groves of the Isle of Apples, the coliseums of the bull dancers of Atlantis—she encountered an uncertain future in a barbarous land … and... Read more

The Husband Trap

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of a RITA, a National Readers' Choice Award, the HOLT Medallion, and the Golden Quill, New York Times best-selling author Tracy Anne Warren is among the most acclaimed and popular Regency romance storytellers. In The Husband Trap, the reserved Lady Violet Brantford agrees to swap identities with her vivacious sister. Before she knows it,... Read more

Tall, Dark, and Texan

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners flock to USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Jodi Thomas' Texas romances. Teagen McMurray is a rugged cowboy not looking for love. But when Jessie Barton and her three daughters arrive on the scene seeking protection, Teagen discovers he has a heart with room enough for four. "[Thomas'] emotionally moving stories are the... Read more

Crossing Fire River

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton pens tales straight out of the grit-and-glory days of the Old West. Reeling from the death of his wife Rosa, Fast Larry Shaw turns to whiskey to drown out the sorrow. But even with a drink in one hand, he's still the fastest shot around. So when he becomes a target for a Mexican bounty hunter after... Read more

Gunman's Song

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Ralph Cotton is one of the finest Western novelists writing today. Gunman's Song is a fast-paced adventure story that begins with tragedy and is propelled forward by the raw lust for revenge. Fast Larry Shaw is a deadly Old West gunman who has taken to the bottle as of late. When he is out drinking and carousing one night, a... Read more

The Sherlockian

By: Graham Moore

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, The Sherlockian weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but "elementary."

In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the... Read more

Brewster’s Millions

By: George Barr McCutcheon

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless if it meant you would then be given many more millions? That's poor Monty Brewster's dilemma in this charming tale. Just as poor Monty Brewster, twice heir to a fortune, is beginning to adjust to his cold and distant grandfather's "paltry" million-dollar bequest,... Read more

Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in the charming and sensual School for Heiresses series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries tells the story of an alluringly handsome rake who challenges everything a young teacher thinks she knows about passion and desire.When Madeline Prescott took a teaching position at Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies,... Read more

His Christmas Pleasure

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Jaime Birch

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell gifts historical romance lovers with a steamy and sensational Christmas present: His Christmas Pleasure, the fourth book in her popular Scandals and Seductions series. The winter holidays have never been hotter than in this delicious tale of a marriage of convenience that becomes an unexpected gift... Read more

1919

By: John Dos Passos

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation... Read more

Voodoo Dreams

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning six decades of the 1800s, this mesmerizing story is a fictional biography of Marie Laveau--one of the most haunting characters in New Orleans' history. Part of a long line of voodoo priestesses and healers, Marie tells of the mystery, passion, and violence that pattern her life. Like her grandmother, Marie sees visions from an early... Read more

Rich Girl, Poor Girl

By: Val Wood

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Rich Girl, Poor Girl written by Val Wood, read by Anne Dover.

Christmas 1860:
Polly, living in grinding poverty,loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the streets of Hull.

Rosalie, brought up in affluence and comfort on the other side of town, loses her own mother in similar... Read more

Dust and Shadow

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.In Dust and Shadow, Sherlock Holmes hunts down Jack the Ripper—the world’s first serial killer—with impeccably... Read more