Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Robe

By: Lloyd C. Douglas

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 22 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ’s garments after the crucifixion. Douglas immediately began working on The Robe, sending each... Read more

A Quiet Strength

By: Janette Oke

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this third book in the Prairie Legacy Series, Virginia dreams that having a home of her own will surely satisfy the longings of her heart. But when the storms in her life test the depths of her heart and faith, where will she turn?Through the years, Virginia Simpson had learned that Grandma Marty's wisdom was right. When God allows something... Read more

A Whistling Woman

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh.Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous... Read more

The Cliff House Strangler

By: Shirley Tallman

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson defied convention by opening her own San Francisco law firm, she found that clients—paying clients, that is—were wary of a woman managing their legal affairs. Just as her patience and her money are running out, Sarah attends a séance at San Francisco’s Cliff House that turns out to be much more than... Read more

Better Homes and Husbands

By: Valerie Ann Leff

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A posh New York apartment building on Park Avenue is home to the rich and famous: Sidney Sapphire, the blond anchorwoman of ABC News; Angela Somoza, the gorgeous Nicaraguan jet-setter; Bob Horowitz, the former chairman of the United Jewish Appeals; and the usual collection of banking and industrial CEOs, Wall Street magnates, and white-haired... Read more

Angels Unaware

By: Priscilla A. Maine

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirteen years, Rebecca Rice has suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood. Now it’s 1895, and Rebecca is ready for change. She can’t remember a time in her life when she hasn’t done exactly what is expected of her—until now.Armed with a knowledge of nursing and faith healing that she learned from a visiting missionary group,... Read more

The Crimson Portrait

By: Jody Shields

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This haunting love story—the magnificent new historical novel by the author of the national bestseller The Fig Eater-makes unforgettably real the ravages of love and war. Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London, a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. The eerie stillness in which she grieves is... Read more

The Black Flower

By: Howard Bahr

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

At twenty-six, Bushrod Carter is already an old soldier, a veteran of all his regiment's campaigns since Shiloh. Now, on an Indian summer afternoon in 1864, Bushrod finds himself in the line of battle once again, on a plain below the obscure village of Franklin, Tennessee. In the madness and violence of the great battle, he must confront his... Read more

The Murder of the Maharajah

By: H. R. F. Keating

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the princely state of Bhopore, India, 1930, a handful of Western visitors comes to the opulent Summer Palace to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they meet the Maharajah’s heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister, and the aloof British Resident, with his... Read more

The Tailor’s Daughter

By: Janice Graham

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Firebird comes this richly detailed historical novel of an unconventional tailor’s daughter who is swept up in a suspenseful drama of passion and intrigue.When a fever leaves her deaf at the age of sixteen, shattering her hopes of marriage, Veda Grenfell turns her exceptional talent to her... Read more

A Café on the Nile

By: Bartle Bull

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 26 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This stirring sequel to The White Rhino is a historical novel of bold romance and grand adventure that sweeps from cosmopolitan Cairo to the wild highlands of East Africa.A nation sits at the brink of war; a city is fraught with conspiracy. It’s 1935 in East Africa, and at the Cataract Café in Cairo, they gather: professional hunter Anton Rider;... Read more

The Club Dumas - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte & Sonia Soto

Narrated by: David Warner

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Middle-aged Lucas Corso is a tired and cynical book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. Soon the... Read more

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE HOLY SHROUD is the explosive international bestseller that mixes fact and fiction to tell the riveting story of one of the world’s most controversial relics–the Holy Shroud of Turin–and the desperate race to save it from those who will stop at nothing to possess its legendary power....

A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and... Read more

The Machiavelli Covenant - Abridged

By: Allan Folsom

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.

In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust... Read more

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud - Abridged

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of History’s Most Sacred Treasures. . .
An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . .
Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . .

Marco Valoni, chief of Italy’s Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no accident. It is only the last in a long line of mishaps,... Read more

Monkey Town

By: Ronald Kidd

Narrated by: Ashley Albert

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a fifteen-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis, and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances's father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest... Read more

The Rebels of Ireland

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 29 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: S. C. Gylanders

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a mysterious visitor appears at General William Tecumseh Sherman’s camp. Without family or home, with only a uniform and the name of Jesse, this prepossessing stranger is an intriguing mix of naiveté and wisdom, ignorant of the most basic conventions of warfare yet uncannily... Read more

The Boleyn Inheritance - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Dagmara Dominczyk, Ruthie Henshall & Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.

After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn... Read more

The Last Templar

By: Raymond Khoury

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first thrilling novel in Raymond Khoury’s New York Times bestselling Templar series.

In 1291, a young Templar knight flees the fallen holy land in a hail of fire and flashing sword, setting out to sea with a mysterious chest entrusted to him by the Order's dying grand master. The ship vanishes without a trace.

In present day Manhattan, four... Read more

Pendragon

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Meggie Sherbrooke, newly married to Thomas Malcombe, the earl of Lancaster, finds her new home in Pendragon, a castle on the southeastern coast of Ireland. The ancient dwelling, full of eccentric people, charms Meggie—in a fashion that could lead to disaster. Read more

Empire of Dragons - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Empire of Dragons is set in Anatolia, AD 260. The Roman outpost of Edessa is on its last legs after the Persian siege, and Roman Emperor Publius Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to negotiate peace. But the meeting is a trap and the Emperor ends up in enemy hands, along with the commander of his personal... Read more

The Sands of Ammon - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.

In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King... Read more

The Deception of the Emerald Ring

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France.

Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with Colin Selwick and sought out a romantic adventure... Read more