Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Interpretation of Murder

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.
The morning after... Read more

Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 42 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

She was a child crowned a queen....
A sinner hailed as a saint....
A lover denounced as a whore...
A woman murdered for her dreams...

Margaret George's Mary Queen of Scotland & the Isles brings to life the fascinating story of Mary, who became the Queen of Scots when she was only six days old. Raised in the glittering French court, returning to... Read more

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 49 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this luch, sweeping, and richly detailed saga. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, this is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayl, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius... Read more

The Interpretation of Murder - Abridged

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.
The morning... Read more

Through a Glass Darkly - Abridged

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sparkles with all of the passion, extravagance and scandal of a grand and glorious era…
As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. From aristocrats to scoundrels, its rich, vivid characters create their own immortality. Here is the story of a great family... Read more

Dark Angels - Abridged

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England.

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a messy scandal forced her to flee to Louis XIV’s... Read more

Young Mrs Savage

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Hilary Neville

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dinah was 19, Gilbert was a sort of fairy prince. She had loved him madly but gradually she had begun to realise that he was not quite so wonderful. Despite keeping her eyes firmly shut, her heart had known there was something wrong. When Gilbert is killed in a flying accident, she is left with four children to raise. Life is hard, fighting... Read more

Endymion Spring

By: Matthew Skelton

Narrated by: Richard Easton

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with Matthew Skelton about the origins of Endymion Spring.

"You've stumbled on to something much larger than you can possibly imagine."

In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its... Read more

Our Mutual Friend - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Dickens' classic novel of mystery, read by Alex Jennings. A body is found in the River Thames and is identified as John Harmon. He was due to inherit a great fortune on the condition that he marry a young woman called Bella Wilfer. And so the story begins and unravels and we are introduced to the mysterious John Rokesmith, Our ... Read more

Alphabet of Dreams

By: Susan Fletcher

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for–or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father’s ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted... Read more

Helen of Troy

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 30 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George, author of Mary, Called Magdalene and Elizabeth I

With her amazing ability to summon the voices of historical characters, Margaret George tells the story of the woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in Helen of Troy. Laden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty,... Read more

Die Kellnerin Anni

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Lisa Kreuzer

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit unnachahmlichem Humor und präziser Beobachtungsgabe läßt Herbert Rosendorfer die Kellnerin Anni von ihrem Singledasein berichten. Sie ist eine Frau im besten Alter und erzählt auf sehr unterhaltsame Weise von ihren Liebesabenteuern. Von dem verheirateten Geliebten, der versehentlich ihr Henna-Shampoo benutzte, oder von dem Liebhaber, der... Read more

The Hummingbird's Daughter

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The House of Broken Angels and Good Night, Irene, discover the epic historical novel following the journey of a young saint fighting for her survival.

This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched... Read more

A Rose For The Crown

By: Anne Easter Smith

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 25 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In A ROSE FOR THE CROWN, we meet one of history’s alleged villains through the eyes of a captivating new heroine–the woman who was the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself.

As Kate Haute moves from her peasant roots to the luxurious palaces of England, her path is... Read more

Parlor Games - Abridged

By: Jess Michaels & Leda Swann

Narrated by: Erica Bell, Kate McIntyre & Jennifer Jones

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Do you dare open the door and enter a place like no other?In these three historical tales of sensual awakening, nothing that stimulates and titillates is taboo, ecstasy comes in many sizes, and pleasure is its own reward . . . a world of seduction and sensation, where inhibitions are unlaced and desires long corseted are gloriously freed. . .... Read more

Four by L'Amour - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This set, newly released on compact disc, contains four thrilling dramatizations of Louis
L’Amour’s short stories, featuring all the excitement of the Wild West–the fierce passion and determination of the men and women who dared to tame the rugged terrain and call it their home, the... Read more

Veronica

By: Mary Gaitskill

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral... Read more

The Afghan Campaign - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier’s story . . .

The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story that might have been ripped from... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: John Wells

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Through the immortal characters of Oliver, Nancy, Bill Sikes, Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Mr Bumble, Dickens mercilessly sends up the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century life - the high-minded reformism of the intellectuals and the snobbery of those in power.

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Lilah

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does... Read more

Lilah - Abridged

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does... Read more

Captive of My Desires

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers into the privileged world of English aristocrats and the exotic haunts of Caribbean treasure hunters in a novel of passion and romantic adventure featuring the incomparable Malorys -- a family of dashing rogues, spirited ladies, and rakehell adventurers. Now American rogue Drew Anderson meets his match when his... Read more

The Courtship

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning Regency-era romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Characters from two of Coulter’s most beloved novels in the Sherbrooke Bride series find each other in The Courtship. Helen Mayberry of Mad Jack has one passion: to track down a mystical treasure. That is, until she meets the thoroughly wicked Spenser... Read more

The Saboteurs - Abridged

By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The welcome, all-new return of Griffin's New York Times-bestselling series about the OSS in World War II.

Abridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours Read more