Historical Fiction audiobooks

A German Requiem

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A supremely disturbing thriller set in the ruins of the Third Reich by an internationally acclaimed master of historical suspense.

Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the... Read more

The Silver Swan

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and... Read more

The Dark Lantern

By: Gerri Brightwell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bentley’s London household is in a state of flux. The elderly matron is on her deathbed; so her son, recently returned from France, is acting as the new master of the house. While he is busy developing a reputation in anthropometry, the science of identifying criminals by body measurements, he is unaware of the secrets of the women in the... Read more

Night Soldiers

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiersis a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.In Vidin, Bulgaria,... Read more

On a Wild Night

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Where are all the exciting men in London?After spending years in the glittering ballrooms of the ton, Amanda Cynster is utterly bored by the current crop of colorless suitors. Determined to take matters into her own hands, one night she shockingly goes where no respectable lady ever should, but where many an intriguing gentleman might be... Read more

Claudius the God

By: Robert Graves

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudius, whom none of his bloody-minded relatives considered worth the trouble of executing, poisoning, forcing to suicide, banishing to a desert island or starving to death—which was how they one by one got rid of each other—was one day unexpectedly proclaimed Emperor.Claudius picks up the remarkable story he began in I, Claudius with his... Read more

History Revisited: The Great Battles

By: J Markham

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining short stories in the alternate military-history genre with speculative history, this entertaining book invites listeners to consider what didn't happen to gain a richer understanding of what did. Acclaimed fiction writers John Mina, Kim Stanley Robinson, William Sanders, and Harry Turtledove pose intriguing “What if?” questions about... Read more

The Franciscan Conspiracy

By: John Sack

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven hundred years ago Church officials hid the body of St. Francis from the world. What secret went with Francis of Assisi to his grave?The Franciscan Conspiracy is set against the chaotic backdrop of thirteenth-century Italy, a time when the extreme poverty of religious zealots clashed with the burgeoning prosperity of merchants, the monastic... Read more

The Lady Chosen

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens’s unforgettable tale of love and mystery that introduced her overwhelming popular Bastion Club novels

Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, has a most unexpected challenge: like all men of his class he must find a suitable wife, but within a year, and if he fails, he must forfeit his inheritance.... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Eyre is the story of a small, plain-faced, intelligent, and passionate English orphan. Jane is abused by her aunt and cousin and then attends a harsh charity school. Through it all she remains strong and determinedly refuses to allow a cruel world to crush her independence or her strength of will. A masterful story of a woman's quest for... Read more

The Indiscretion

By: Judith Ivory

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Lydia is a delicate British lady. Sam is a dusty Texan. When they are stranded together on bleak and dangerous Dartmoor, they must stay close to each other to survive. But this closeness creates more than safety -it leads to an indiscretion that could destroy them both. Judith Ivory's lush, lyrical romances have won multiple RITA awards and are... Read more

A Gentleman's Honor

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain lady does …Alicia is living a deception. Desperation has caused the determined but penniless lady... Read more

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Julia Quinn flawlessly combines passionate romance with "pitch perfect humor" (Publishers Weekly). Miranda Cheever has been blessed with many things, but Great Beauty is not among them. Still, when she meets Viscount Tuner she knows she is meant for him. As the years go by, fate is as kind to Miranda as it is harsh on the... Read more

On a Wicked Dawn

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Amelia Cynster is stunned to hear these words from Lucien Ashford—the enigmatic sixth Viscount Calverton and the man she has always loved—just before the handsome rogue passes out at her feet. Dawn is breaking and she's already risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London home. And though torn between indignant affront and... Read more

The House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What Galsworthy did for Edwardian England, Wharton did for turn-of-the-century New York, and she did it to perfection in The House of Mirth. Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social... Read more

Highgate Rise

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Victorian mystery series starring Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt reaches new heights. When Dr. Stephen Shaw's fancy Highgate Rise home is burned to the ground with his wife inside, the Inspector and his wife must solve a baffling mystery. Read more

Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Edwardian England, Howards End is the portrait of a lost era, a deceptively golden time before the First World War that would change values and lifestyles forever. To illuminate these changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels-Helen and Margaret-educated, compassionate and... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Years earlier, a hound-like beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws was reported to have torn out the throat... Read more

The Golden Ocean

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series.In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster,... Read more

Gramercy Park

By: Paula Cohen

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel, selected by the Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and the Book-ofthe- Month Club, has been hailed as "Daphne du Maurier meets Edith Wharton." Set in turn-of-the-century New York, it is a tale of passion, intrigue, and murder. Mario Alfieri, the world's most famous tenor, is preparing to make his debut at the Met. As he rents a... Read more

Hoffnung Havanna - Abridged

By: Joseph Berlinger

Narrated by: Rüdiger Hacker, Burchard Dabinnus & Irina Wanka

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Um die Jahrhundertwende brachte ein unternehmungslustiger Varieté-Direktor frischen Wind ins provinzielle Regensburg. Simon Oberdorfers Velodrom war ein Vergnügungstempel. Das staunende Publikum erlebte Pistolenkünstler und Blitzdichter, dressierte Wölfe und die Sängerin Lona mit ihrem lichtscheuen Schimmel. Es gab "elektrische... Read more

Der Tod in Regensburg - Abridged

By: Dieter Lohr

Narrated by: Florian Sendtner, Friedrich Brandl, Dieter Lohr...

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Johannes Kepler starb am 15. November 1630 während eines Aufenthalts in Regensburg. Zahlreiche Legenden ranken sich um Person und Werk, Leben und Sterben des berühmten Astronomen und Mathematikers - und alle beanspruchen sie die Wahrheit für sich. Dieter Lohrs Erzählung um die letzten Tage des Johannes Kepler hingegen ist reine Fiktion! Was... Read more

An Incomplete Revenge

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate... Read more

Rat Krespel - Die Fermate - Abridged

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

RAT KRESPEL: Rat Krespel, ein recht sonderbarer Geselle, ist begnadeter Geigenbauer und Vater einer schönen Tochter, die dazu noch ein großes Gesangstalent besitzt. Krespel ist ständig auf der Suche nach dem Besonderen im Klang einer jeden Geige - allerdings muß er die Instrumente zerstören, um den Dingen auf den Grund zu gehen. Eine besondere... Read more