Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Raven in the Foregate

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas, AD 1141 Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who... Read more

Lady of the Butterflies

By: Fiona Mountain

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleanor is the daughter of a strict puritan and Roundhead major and lives in a medieval manor on the bleak wetlands of Somerset. Her longing for color and brightness leads to an obsession with butterflies as well as to an illicit passion for charismatic but troubled Richard Glanville. Richard, the son of an exiled Cavalier, embodies all that... Read more

Beware a Scot's Revenge

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the School for Heiressess series, by New York Times bestselling historical romance author Sabrina Jeffries, is a delightfully sexy regency-era romance. Lady Venetia Campbell's visit to her childhood home in Scotland takes a dramatic turn when she's kidnapped at pistol point by her father's sworn enemy. Sir Lachlan Ross is... Read more

St. Peter’s Fair

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

St. Peter’s Fair was a grand event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. With the pause in the Civil War during the summer of 1139, the fair would bring some much-needed gaiety to Shrewsbury.But a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. Brother Cadfael offers to help the merchant’s niece, Emma; but while he... Read more

Occupied City

By: David Peace

Narrated by: a full cast, Daisuke Tsuji, Justine Eyre, Brons...

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 26, 1948, a public health official arrives at a branch of the Teikoku Bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he tells the manager, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat all locals who might have been exposed.The sixteen members of the staff gather as the official pours the... Read more

Johannes Cabal the Detective

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.

In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the... Read more

Captive Queen

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned for her highly acclaimed and bestselling British histories, Alison Weir has in recent years made a major impact on the fiction scene with her novels about Queen Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey. In this latest offering, she imagines the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the beautiful twelfth-century woman who was queen of France until she... Read more

An Affair Before Christmas

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic under the mistletoe . . .One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful young Englishwoman, and theirs was the most romantic wedding she had... Read more

For the King

By: Catherine Delors

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For her first novel, Mistress of the Revolution, which the Associated Press dubbed one of the "best reads of the year," Catherine Delors earned comparisons to Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory. In For the King, she again demonstrates her matchless ability to illuminate key turning points in history while weaving a gripping story about a man... Read more

Gunmen of the Desert Sands

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize nominee and best-selling author Ralph Cotton has been called "one of the best Western writers today" (Western Horseman). Fast Larry Shaw incurs a huge debt when a Mexican girl shouts a life-saving warning during a firefight. Outlaws have put the girl through hell, and now Larry is her only hope. But after offering his services,... Read more

Time’s Legacy

By: Barbara Erskine

Narrated by: Janice Mackenzie

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Erskine returns with this beautiful and haunting tale of dark forces and mystical powers Cambridge, present day: Following the death of her mother, Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest – a misshapen crystal sphere known as the Serpent’s Stone, which gives her glimpses into mysteries long concealed by the... Read more

The Blind Contessa's New Machine

By: Carey Wallace

Narrated by: Aasne Vigesaa

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Carolina Fantoni, a young contessa in nineteenth-century Italy, is going blind. But nobody believes her: neither her parents, nor her fiancé, the town’s most sought-after bachelor. Only her friend Turri, the eccentric local inventor, understands. But as darkness erases her world, Carolina discovers one place she can still see—in her dreams. In... Read more

Keeping the House

By: Ellen Baker

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto’s How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women’s lives, and... Read more

The King's Mistress

By: Emma Campion

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind the scandal? A cold-hearted opportunist or someone fighting... Read more

What Is Left the Daughter

By: Howard Norman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other,... Read more

Desperate Duchesses

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including—on occasion—a lady's virtue.A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a man she glimpses across a crowded... Read more

The Seeker

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped by obligation, one woman longs for the freedom of true love. It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop’s life is a tangled mess. When circumstances move Lacey to a nearby Shaker village, she is not prepared for the new life that awaits her. In the midst of her deep loneliness, Lacey works to fit in with this odd group. But everything shifts when she... Read more

Throne of Isis

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar and bore his only son. After his death, she took his greatest general, Mark Antony, as her lover and consort—and as her partner in a vast political... Read more

The Brazen Bride

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fabulously entertaining….Laurens adds a dash of exotic spice to her always reliable mix of sexy romance and risky intrigue.”—Booklist The third book in New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens’s sensational Black Cobra Quartet, The Brazen Bride ingeniously blends intrigue and danger with sizzling, passionate love. With ties to... Read more

Honor's Splendour

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the feuding English court, gentle Lady Madelyne suffered the cruel whims of her ruthless brother, Baron Louddon. Then, in vengeance for a bitter crime, Baron Duncan of Wexton — the Wolf — unleashed his warriors against Louddon's domain. Exquisite Madelyne was the prize he captured...but when he gazed upon the proud beauty, he pledged to... Read more

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Paula Wilcox & Jonathan Aris

Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh... Read more

Pillar of Fire

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 21 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought in chains as a slave girl to the court of ancient Egypt, Nofret knew intimately the key players in an extraordinary era: the pharaoh Akhenaten, who defied the ancient Egyptian deities to worship the One True God; his beautiful queen, Nefertiti; Tutankhamon, the young boy-king murdered in a ruthless struggle for power; Johanan, the... Read more

The Eagle’s Daughter

By: Judith Tarr

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This lushly detailed historical novel tells the story of the tenth-century Byzantine princess Theophano, who ruled as empress during the last days of the Roman Empire. Her story is told through the eyes of her companion and adviser, Aspasia, a widow and royal princess in her own right. At eighteen years old, Theophano is sent to become the wife... Read more

Shadow Valley

By: Steven Barnes

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly praises Steven Barnes' Shadow Valley as "all at once rugged and elegant in style, a mix of harsh bloodletting with a primeval close-to-the-land beauty." This mythical tale-a sequel to Barnes' Great Sky Woman - is set in Africa in 28,000 B.C. and follows a tribal leader who must find a new land for her people. Read more