Historical Fiction audiobooks

Jade Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fourth in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Vowing to save a young girl from her painful past, Saint Morris marries her out of duty. He thinks of himself as her protector and brother. But she has other ideas.... Read more

Wild Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Third in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Brent Hammond is as handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When he meets Byrony by chance, he's charmed. But when he sees her again, as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. Until her life is threatened—and he discovers that only... Read more

Midnight Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Second in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.An heiress from England comes to San Francisco to ruin the man she thinks destroyed her father—only to wind up in his care and in his bed. Read more

Mules and Men - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of... Read more

The Pale Horseman - Abridged

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the... Read more

Götterflüstern. Gefundene Liebe - Abridged

By: Jenny Völker

Narrated by: Désirée Singson

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stell dir vor, die Götter spielen ein Spiel und du gerätst zwischen die Fronten. Elli ist Archäologin und gräbt wie jeden Sommer in Delphi aus. Im Zuge dessen findet sie eine kleine Statue der griechischen Göttin Athena, die sich seltsam leicht anfühlt. Kurz darauf überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Ein geheimnisvoller Gutachter taucht auf,... Read more

Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest Ludwig Thoma - Abridged

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Paul Ernst Rattelmüller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der bekannte Rundfunkautor und -moderator Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest auf unverkennbare Weise beliebte und bekannte Geschichten von Ludwig Thoma, u.a. "Die Dachserin", "Assessor Karlchen", "Monika", "Die Wilderer" und viele andere mehr. Paul Ernst Rattelmüller (* 27. März 1924 in Regensburg; † 12. Januar 2004 in Starnberg) war ein deutscher... Read more

Evening Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.When Alex Saxton wins virgin Giana Van Cleve in the infamous Roman Flower Auction, he never expects to lose his heart... Read more

Rote Sonne, schwarzes Land (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was ist die Macht des Clans gegen das Wagnis der Liebe?" 1917: Dr. Grace Treverton erreicht Kenia, das schwarze Land, entschlossen, den Eingeborenen die Segnungen der modernen Medizin zu bringen. Ihr Bruder, Lord Valentine, träumt von der Zukunft dieses britischen Protektorats: ein landwirtschaftliches Imperium, größer als jedes in der alten... Read more

Black Bones, Red Earth - Abridged

By: Lee Richie

Narrated by: Sandy Gore

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An Australian/English historical drama set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s, the story follows the life of Katherine, an English child migrant who is consigned to an austere life on an isolated property beyond Broken Hill. There is little love in Katherine's life until Aboriginal station hands offer their... Read more

The First Casualty - Abridged

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Jack Davenport

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder.

Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously... Read more

Deep in the Heart of Trouble - Abridged

By: Deeanna Gist

Narrated by: Brooke Sanford Heldman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Texas-Sized Tale of Unexpected Love. Essie Spreckelmeyer is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catching a man's eye. And the last man who seems willing to give her a second glance is Tony Morgan, newly... Read more

Prince of Ravenscar - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

April 1831. Lord Julian is a widower whose mother wants him to marry her best friend’s daughter, Miss Sophie Wilkie, whom he last saw as a silent and skinny twelve-year-old. However, his mother is nothing if not persuasive, and Julian reluctantly accompanies her to London to meet the young lady.Lord Devlin Monroe, Julian’s nephew, is enjoying an... Read more

The Historian - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Jim Ward, Martin Jarvis, Dennis...

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). 

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets... Read more

Die Dresdnerin - Abridged

By: Alexander Asisi

Narrated by: Johannes Brandrup

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DIE DRESDNERIN von Alexander Asisi "Mörderisches Finale im Feuersturm" - Sächsische Zeitung "Das Trauma des 13. Februars 1945 wurde schon vielfältig verarbeitet, als Krimi jedoch noch nicht ." - BILD Februar 1945: Während überall im Reich die Bomben der Alliierten niedergehen, treibt ein Serienmörder in mehreren deutschen Städten sein... Read more

Magic Mushrooms? From Eve´s Garden to my Granny´s Microdosing - Abridged

By: Angélica Sánchez (Agüita)

Narrated by: Vanessa Weller

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of magic mushrooms told through the voices of women who, with threads of different colors, bordered a tapestry that tells a story of magic mushrooms that has never been told before. Read more

The Reluctant Suitor - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lady Adriana Sutton has long adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure for a life of adventure and danger in the British army.No longer the plain tomboy... Read more

Il Collezionista - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Dario Agrillo

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: Yes

Un capolavoro scomparso. Una ladra affascinante. Un segreto letale. "Un thriller stimolante, che intrattiene e fa riflettere."KIRKUS DALL'AUTORE AL PRIMO POSTO NELLE CLASSIFICHE MONDIALI, UNA NUOVA MISSIONE PER GABRIEL ALLON. All'indomani del gala annuale della Venice Preservation Society, il restauratore e leggendaria spia Gabriel Allon entra... Read more

Force 10 from Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are... Read more

Guns of Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book . THE GUNS OF NAVARONEMallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the... Read more

A Knight in Shining Armor - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!

Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. Suddenly, the most extraordinary... Read more

The Paris Vendetta - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American Secret Service agent with assassins on his heels. Narrowly... Read more

The Tenth Gift - Abridged

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: Susan Duerden & John Lee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories.

In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite seventeenth-century embroidery patterns belonging to a woman named Catherine Ann Tregenna. Yet... Read more

The Castle in the Forest - Abridged

By: Norman Mailer

Narrated by: Harris Yulin

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEN OF LETTERS

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe,... Read more