Historical Fiction audiobooks

White Queen

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman who rises from obscurity to become Queen of England, and changes the course of history forever.

Elizabeth Woodville is a woman of extraordinary... Read more

Charleston

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells -- saints and evil-doers mingled in one unforgettable family -- from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into our country's history as only he can, Jakes paints a powerful portrait... Read more

Dark Voyage

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. Only she is not the Santa Rosa, she is the... Read more

Blood of Victory

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black... Read more

Foreign Correspondent

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense Read more

Kingdom of Shadows

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe. Read more

Gods of Newport

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness.

In 1893,... Read more

Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Prince John has assembled a collection of avaricious nobles to take control of England while Richard the Lionhearted is imprisoned in Austria. This threatens to bring the country to civil war between the Norman nobles and the conquered Saxons. Standing above it all is Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight who has fought in the Holy... Read more

Unauthorised History: The Killing

By: Michael Butt

Narrated by: Blake Ritson, Burn Gorman, Christine Kavanagh, ...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Michael Butt about the death of the poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, originally broadcast in the ‘Afternoon Play’ slot on 17 August 2010. In May 1593, the playwright Christopher Marlowe was killed. Apparently, it was because of an argument over a bill. Michael Butt's innovative drama dons the... Read more

The Attenbury Emeralds

By: Jill Paton Walsh

Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of... Read more

A Lonely Death

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Three men have been murdered in a Sussex village, and Scotland Yard has been called in. It's a baffling case. The victims are soldiers who survived the horrors of the Great War only to meet a ghastly end in the quiet English countryside two years later. Each had been garroted, with small ID disks left in their mouths. But even Scotland Yard's... Read more

The Anatomy of Ghosts

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem, since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds.Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts, a stinging... Read more

The Book of Scandal

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathan Grey, the Earl of Lindsey, is infamously known as the Libertine of Lindsey for his scandalous ways with women. But when he hears gossip that his estranged wife, Evelyn, is about to be named in The Book of Scandal, he has no choice but to remove her from London to protect her and himself from charges of treason — even if it calls for... Read more

The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 26 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, which explored the mind of a murderer, Fyodor Dostoevsky produced another masterpiece: The Idiot. This time the author portrays a truly beautiful soul and one of Dostoevsky's greatest characters—Prince Muishkin, a saintly, Christ-like, yet deeply human figure.



The story begins when Muishkin... Read more

Khan

By: Conn Iggulden

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 New York Times best-selling author, Conn Iggulden has garnered both critical and popular acclaim for his compelling novels about Genghis Khan. Iggulden's riveting Empire of Silver-the fourth in his Khan dynasty series-highlights the incredible story of Ogedai, son of Genghis Khan. "Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic,... Read more

The Lady Most Likely...

By: Julia Quinn, Eloisa James & Connie Brockway

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Quinn, the author of Bridgerton—along with close friends and bestselling authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway—comes an enchanting tale of a country house party in which three heroines find their happily ever after! And You’re Invited! Given a house party explicitly designed to end in weddings, which author do you think escorted... Read more

Priestess of Avalon

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewoman, experiencing both joy—with the birth of her child—and loss, when politics forces her lover... 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

The Long Walk Home

By: Val Wood

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

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At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he's shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who sends him to prison. He returns home to find that his mother has died and his younger siblings taken into the workhouse.

With only his determination, Mikey makes his way to... Read more

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

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' Christmas classic-written in time for the 1843 holiday season-sold out its initial printing of 6,000 copies in one day. It remains Dickens' most widely read and best-loved work, guaranteed to warm and uplift with the simplicity of its message and the depth of its honest truths. Bah! Humbug! It's Christmas Eve and miserly... Read more

Too Close To The Sun

By: Jess Foley

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 35 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lose yourself in this captivating and heart-wrenching saga from much loved author Jess Foley, written in the bestselling tradition of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. You will not want to put it down...

READERS ARE LOVING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN
'Good story couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'Keeps you gripped to the end'--... Read more

No Wings To Fly

By: Jess Foley

Narrated by: Patricia Gillmore

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

If you like Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn, then you will love this breath-taking saga of one of love, passion, betrayal, tragedy and longing by much loved author Jess Foley. This unmissable and unputdownable saga is one you will never forget...

'Compulsive and well-paced' -- Wiltshire Times
'A gripping saga... What makes this... 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