Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Secret Magdalene

By: Ki Longfellow

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and... Read more

Tallgrass

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been predictable and fair. But the winds of change are coming, and... Read more

Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced with the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, who has made violent threats against Ribetti. Brunetti's curiousity is... Read more

The Wild Girl

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind by joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for the young son of a wealthy Mexican landowner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition’s goal becomes compromised when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell,... Read more

Empire Rising

By: Thomas Kelly

Narrated by: Michael Deehy

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1930—the Depression—and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men erecting the building high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace... Read more

Who’s Sorry Now?

By: Jill Churchill

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

For sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster and the rest of Hudson Valley, the dark days of the Depression mean deprivation all around. Their poor town has lost its post office and now the mail gets dumped at the train station. When Robert helps a young widow haul her newly arrived German grandfather's trunks home, he thinks he may have... Read more

Sarah’s Quilt

By: Nancy E. Turner

Narrated by: Valerie Leonard

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sarah’s Quilt, our indomitable heroine Sarah Agnes Prine, the courageous pioneer woman introduced in These Is My Words, shares her homespun wisdom and her heartache as she contends with life in the Arizona territories at the turn of the last century. Sarah’s Quilt opens in 1906 after years of drought have devastated the cattle ranches of... Read more

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

By: Harriet Scott Chessman

Narrated by: Harriet Scott Chessman

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia Cassatt contemplates her world with courage, openness, and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Read more

Hunter's Moon

By: Randy Wayne White

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Doc Ford saves a former President of the United States from assassination-and regrets it. Months ago, Kal Wilson's wife was killed in a plane crash. President Wilson is sure it was no accident-and he wants revenge. He needs Doc Ford to spring him loose from the watchful eye of the Secret Service, keep him alive, then get him home. Ford has just... Read more

Roma

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 22 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families through the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city, and its people.

Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven Saylor gives new life to the drama of the city’s first thousand... Read more

Brethren - Abridged

By: Robyn Young

Narrated by: Hugh Ross

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the burning plains of Syria to the filthy backstreets of Paris and London, Brethren is the story of Will Campbell, coming of age in a time of conspiracy, passion, politics and war.

Will longs to become a Knight Templar, but first he must serve as an apprentice to the foul-tempered scholar Everard, a man of dangerous secrets.

Meanwhile, a... Read more

The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot

By: Jeffrey Archer & Francis J. Moloney, SDB, AM, S...

Narrated by: Desmond Tutu

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot is the result of an intense collaboration between a storyteller and a scholar: Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney. Their brilliant work—bold and simple—is a compelling story for twenty-first-century readers, while maintaining an authenticity that would be credible to a first-century Christian... Read more

Burning Bright

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale

In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door,... Read more

Live the Dream - Abridged

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

A powerful bestseller from the country’s number one storyteller. Read by Carole Boyd. In a 1930s setting, LIVE THE DREAM tells the story of three people caught up in a tangle of love and hatred which threatens to tear them apart forever. Handsome, wealthy and fair-minded, Luke Hammond could have the world... Read more

The Loner - Abridged

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox – the country’s favourite storyteller. After a tragic accident resulting in the death of his mother, and the disappearance of his father, young Davie flees his hometown of Blackburn, unsure of what the future holds for him. Devastated, he must escape the vicious rumours about... Read more

Journey’s End - Abridged

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following the fortunes of some of the much-loved characters from her bestseller The Journey, Josephine Cox’s powerful new novel spans continents, decades and generations of one family As Barney Davidson watched the liner sail away with his beloved family on board, bound for America, he stood a devastated and broken man. His... Read more

The Journey - Abridged

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by Carole Boyd. The new bestseller from the country’s number one storyteller is a deeply moving and powerful tale of love and courage and a sacrifice no man should be asked to make. The story begins in 1952 when three strangers meet in a churchyard. One is a local farmer, Ben Morris, walking through the... Read more

Black Powder War - Abridged

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the third novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, Captain Will Laurence and his dragon transport precious cargo while fending off enemies on all sides.

“A splendid series.”—Anne McCaffrey

After their fateful adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty’ s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are... Read more

Far From the Madding Crowd - Abridged

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is perhaps the best-known of Hardy's works. The story centres around the beautiful and wilful Bathsheba Everdene, mistress of Weatherbury Upper Farm, and the three men who love her. Hardy combines outstanding description of West Country rural life with a deep sense of romantic passion.

(P)2003 Hodder & Stoughton... Read more

Christine Falls

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted,... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 31 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.

Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate... Read more

Throne of Jade - Abridged

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the second novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, the Napoleonic Wars take Captain Will Laurence and his dragon to China on a perilous mission.

“Full of wonderful characters with real heart.”—Peter Jackson

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo—an unhatched dragon's egg—Captain Will Laurence of HMS... Read more

His Majesty's Dragon - Abridged

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the first novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, a rare bond is formed between a young man and a dragon, and together they must battle in the Napoleonic Wars.

“A terrifically entertaining fantasy novel.”—Stephen King

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s... Read more

The Taste of Innocence - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens created the world of the Cynsters, she introduced readers to aristocratic British society, where arranged marriages are the norm and love is a dangerous indulgence. For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, but, as Lord Meredith, he must marry, so he offers for his... Read more