Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Road to the Salt Sea

By: Samuel Kolawole

Narrated by: Atta Otigba

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests.... Read more

Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Good Morning America Buzz Pick“Effervescent and cool, Teddy is the perfect read if your trip to Capri gets canceled and your La Dolce Vita itch needs scratching.”—Washington PostLessons in Chemistry meets Mad Men in this wildly entertaining debut novel set in glamorous Rome, which follows the free-spirited wife of an American diplomat as she... Read more

Spy Sinker

By: Len Deighton

Narrated by: James Lailey

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What kind of woman would leave her husband, her children, and her home to live behind the Iron Curtain and work for the KGB? From the brilliant Oxford graduate who understands the espionage game better than her male colleagues, to the beguiling woman who uses her charm and brains to deceive everyone around her, Fiona Samson presents a complex... Read more

Spy Line

By: Len Deighton

Narrated by: James Lailey

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life and job and plunge into hiding. But in the murky, dangerous streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central, but get to the bottom of a tangled conspiracy that is about to change... Read more

Spy Hook

By: Len Deighton

Narrated by: James Lailey

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood . . . Read more

More than Conquerors

By: Carole Towriss

Narrated by: Katie Brown

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Kassandra‘s privileged and pampered life explodes when she meets a woman with next to nothing. When a glimpse into the lives of those less fortunate turns into a mission to help them, her father offers a choice: act like the daughter of a politarch and marry the man he has chosen––or leave home forever.Unimaginable loss shakes Jason‘s world to... Read more

Murder at Hendon Aerodrome

By: Christina Koning

Narrated by: Duncan Galloway

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands, the craze for flying holds little interest - after all, he is unlikely ever to set foot in an aeroplane himself. However, a chance meeting with a famous flier draws Rowlands into the glamorous, and dangerous, world of aviation. When a body is discovered in one of the hangars at... Read more

Im Nordwind - Die Nordwind-Saga, Band 1

By: Miriam Georg

Narrated by: Tanja Fornaro

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hamburg in den Jahren 1912-1914. Alice arbeitet auf dem Vergügungsmarkt Hamburger Dom. Voller Hoffnung, einem Leben in Armut zu entkommen, ging sie eine Ehe ein. Doch das Leben mit ihrem Mann ist unerträglich. Das wenige hart verdiente Geld behält er ein, Eifersucht und Jähzorn treiben ihn in die Raserei, ihre Tochter Rosa kann sie kaum... Read more

The Jacobites' Plight

By: Morag Edwards

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Winifred Maxwell is found guilty of treason, and her brother William could be found guilty of the same charge for helping her escape from London. . . She has been persecuted throughout her life for her family's loyalty to the exiled Stuart dynasty. Winifred and her husband make it to Rome, to the exiled court of the James III, where Winifred... Read more

Houdini Unbound

By: Alan Attwood

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

1910. Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini, the most celebrated escape artist in the world, has sold-out seasons in Australia. Houdini has a new obsession: aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together and prepared in a Diggers Rest paddock by his French mechanic Brassac. Houdini is intent on... Read more

Excalibur

By: Peter Gibbons

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The sword has the power of Britain in its steel, men will follow and fight for whoever wields it...Dark Age Britain. A legendary hero rises to unite a divided and threatened land...A country left in ruins after the fall of the Roman Empire is plundered and broken. Saxon hordes have invaded and conquered the East coast of Britain in a... Read more

Tanzpalast - Ein Fall für Kommissar Oppenheimer, Band 8 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Harald Gilbers

Narrated by: Richard Barenberg

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fesselnd, authentisch, hoch atmosphärisch: Kalter Krieg in Berlin und ein perfider Frauenmörder In Tanzpalast, dem 8. Band der historischen Krimi-Reihe von Harald Gilbers, jagt Kommissar Oppenheimer einen Serienmörder, der seine weiblichen Opfer als Heilige inszeniert. Berlin, 1950: Eine junge Frau, die als vermisst gemeldet war, wird... Read more

The Ashes of the Brothel

By: Katryna Lalock

Narrated by: Gretchen Weber

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Jolted by her mother's horrific death during a California-bound train ride, Louisa never had much choice but to accept that life can be as brutal as it is beautiful. After arriving in Jerome, Arizona, with her father, Pa, and younger sister, Heather, Louisa can only hope for an uneventful reset. But their new home, dubbed the Wickedest Little... Read more

Zwischen Liebe und Verrat - Roman - Cristina, Band 2 (Autorisierte Lesefassung)

By: Iny Lorentz

Narrated by: Anne Moll

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Band 2 der großen historischen Roman-Reihe um das Gaukler-Mädchen Cristina Dramatisch, abenteuerlich und faszinierend spannend: In Zwischen Liebe und Verrat erzählt Bestseller-Autorin Iny Lorentz, wie Cristinas Mut und innere Stärke in den Wirren der Napoleonischen Kriege mehr als einmal auf die Probe gestellt werden. Aus dem einstigen... Read more

Tuntematon täydennysmies (lyhentämätön)

By: Ulla-Kirsti Junttila

Narrated by: Markus Asunta

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Tuntematon täydennysmies -romaani kertoo Karkkilan seuduilta kotoisin olevien nuorten miesten elämästä talvisodan jälkeen ja jatkosodan aikana. Nuorukaiset aloittivat varusmiespalveluksensa syyskuussa 1941, jolloin jatkosotaa oli käyty 2 kuukautta. Neljän kuukauden koulutusjakson jälkeen heidät lähetettiin vuoden 1942 alussa rintamalle. Vuonna... Read more

Ex-Wife (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Ursula Parrott

Narrated by: Cathlen Gawlich & Mareike Fallwickl

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Sex and the City meets The Great Gatsby - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott Patricia ist 24, als ihr Mann beschließt, die Ehe mit ihr zu beenden. Vor den Kopf gestoßen von dieser Entscheidung versucht sie zunächst, um ihren Mann zu kämpfen, merkt dann aber schnell, dass sie auch ohne ihn ein Leben führen und viel... Read more

The Wartime Vet

By: Ellie Curzon

Narrated by: Laura Kirman

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble Heath. But falling bombs aren't the only danger as the war hits close to home. . .Laura is not afraid to serve her country by caring for animals and protecting the crops everyone relies on. But, just when the country is most in need of food, the... Read more

A Family for the Rancher

By: Jenna Kernan

Narrated by: Cody Roberts

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Deathbed Promise … Two orphan boys and the man she can’t have.Dillen Roach fell for wealthy heiress and determined to win her by making his fortune in the west. Two years later, he’s still living hand-to-mouth when she arrives with his orphaned nephews.After her friend's passing, heiress Alice Truett, defies her family and takes the boys west... Read more

Die Stauffenbergs - Eine große Liebe in Zeiten des Krieges (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Charlotte Roth

Narrated by: Elisabeth Günther

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein biografischer Roman, der Sie zu Tränen rühren wird: Die wahre Geschichte über die große Liebe der Stauffenbergs. Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth erzählt in ihrem historischen Roman eine der schönsten und traurigsten Liebesgeschichten, die das Leben schrieb: eine Geschichte von Anstand und Courage, und von Hoffnung inmitten tiefster... Read more

The Bletchley Park Girls

By: Patricia McBride

Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense and gripping tale of one woman's time at Bletchley Park...She toils behind the scenes to keep those on the frontlines safe. But she might be the one in danger…England, 1941.When a sudden reassignment gives Lily Baker only three days to report to mysterious Bletchley Park, she’s confused but excitedly answers duty’s call.Learning the... Read more

The Hand of the Hunter

By: Gordon Bonnet

Narrated by: Gordon Bonnet

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1971, and all ten-year-old Janina Starcevich wants to do is spend the seemingly endless warm days riding her bicycle, climbing trees, and catching frogs in the pond in her back yard. But when a young drifter named Justin Lazarus walks into the hardware store owned by her next-door neighbor, Kathy Christian, a series of events... Read more

Three Kings

By: B. Mich. Grosch

Narrated by: Ryan Neural

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

About this novel:.Three royal brothers wage mock wars against each other in order to deceive and decimate their own population, which is threatened by famine, so that the population, which has shrunk after the wars, continues to respect and revere its own ruler and blames the alleged foreign enemies for its misery. Character traits of the three... Read more

Tutankhamun - The Story Behind the Golden Mask

By: Beshoy Mahrous

Narrated by: Beshoy Mahrous

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tutankhamun: The Story Behind the Golden Mask"A Pharaoh's Echoes: Where History Whispers Secrets in the Sands of Time🌴 In the sands of Egypt, forgotten tales of empires rise and fall, gods are worshipped and dethroned. Unearthed from a sealed tomb, a golden mask becomes a portal to a bygone era. Its glittering surface hides a truth more potent... Read more

The White Empress

By: J.D. Nichols

Narrated by: Laura Lieben

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Sam Keene on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery in this compelling story. From the ashes of the Vietnam War, Sam's life takes an unexpected turn when she's adopted by an American soldier and his wife, who whisk her away to the bustling streets of Brooklyn. Yet, even amidst the vibrant tapestry of New York City, Sam grapples with a... Read more