Historical Fiction audiobooks

Love Notes for Freddie

By: Eva Rice

Narrated by: Jessica Ball & Liza Ross

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former from Hertfordshire with a dysfunctional family, a penchant for Pythagoras' Theorem and an addiction to doughnuts and gin. Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches, yet who once danced barefoot through Central Park with a man called Jo she has... Read more

The Saffron Trail

By: Rosanna Ley

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Once, there was a girl who loved saffron. She loved its secrets, its mystery, and best of all, she loved its hint of magic.

After the death of her beloved mother, Nell travels from rural Cornwall to the colour and chaos of Marrakech. Her marriage may be on the rocks, but exploring the heady delights of Moroccan cuisine could help her fulfil her... Read more

The Fates

By: Rosie Garland

Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt, Glen McCready, Rosalind Lailey...

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

'A really thrilling and totally original story of Greek mythology that I can't recommend highly enough' JENNIFER SAINT, author of Ariadne and Atalanta

'Lyrical, imaginative, visceral, urgent, moving, adventurous . . . brings The Fates startlingly back to life' SEAN LUSK, author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

'Passionate, angry,... Read more

The House of Lamentations

By: S. G. MacLean

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

'One of the best historical crime series out there' Crime Review

'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday Times

Summer, 1658, and the Republic may finally be safe: the combined Stuart and Spanish forces have been heavily defeated by the English and French armies on the coast of Flanders, and the King's cause appears finished.

Yet one final,... Read more

The House at Silvermoor

By: Tracy Rees

Narrated by: Gareth Bennett-Ryan & Zoe Mills

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

1899
Josie has never questioned her life in a mining village on the South Yorkshire coalfield. But everything changes when she meets Tommy from the neighbouring village. Tommy has been destined for a life underground since the moment he was born. But he has far bigger dreams.
Josie and Tommy become fast friends, united by their desire for... Read more

The Seeker

By: S. G. MacLean

Narrated by: Nicholas Camm

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Dagger for Historical Fiction

London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad.

London is a complex web of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is... Read more

Bay of Secrets

By: Rosanna Ley

Narrated by: Sandra Duncan

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Spain, 1939.

Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona. Looking for a way to maintain her links to the outside world, she volunteers to help in a maternity clinic. But worrying adoption practices in the clinic force Sister Julia to decide how far she will go to help... Read more

Traitor's Blade

By: Sebastien de Castell

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'One hell of a good book' - Conn Iggulden

The Greatcoats - legendary heroes, arbiters of justice . . . or notorious traitors?

The Greatcoats are travelling magistrates bringing justice to all . . . or at least they were, before they watched the Dukes impale their King's head on a spike. Now the land's heroes are reviled as traitors, their... Read more

The Forces' Sweethearts

By: Rosie Archer

Narrated by: Ellie Heydon

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Gripping, emotional Second World War saga for fans of Annie Groves, Shirley Dickson and Soraya Lane.

1943, and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA, visiting army bases across the world in order to boost the morale of the brave boys fighting in the desert and the jungle. The hours are long and the travelling... Read more

Brightfall

By: Jaime Lee Moyer

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone is murdering the Merry Men . . .

It's been a mostly quiet life since Robin Hood put aside his pregnant wife Marian, turned his back on his Merry Men and his former life and retreated to a monastery to repent his sins . . . although no one knows what was so heinous he would leave behind Sherwood Forest and those he loved most.

But when... Read more

A Girl Made of Air

By: Nydia Hetherington

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical and atmospheric homage to the strange and extraordinary, perfect for fans of Angela Carter and Erin Morgenstern.

This is the story of The Greatest Funambulist Who Ever Lived...

Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. Until the bright light of Serendipity... Read more

The House at Helygen

By: Victoria Hawthorne

Narrated by: Jane McDowell & Tamsin Kennard

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric historical suspense novel rich with familial secrets. The House at Helygen is a twisted tale of dark pasts, murderous presents and uncertain futures.

2019

When Henry Fox is found dead in his ancestral home in Cornwall, the police rule it a suicide, but his pregnant wife, Josie, believes it was murder. Desperate to make sense of... Read more

The Missing Mummies

By: Lisa Tuttle

Narrated by: Candida Gubbins

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bryant & May meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in this charming Victorian adventure featuring shrieking pits, missing girls, witches and (maybe) a mummy's curse.

Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, call on Jesperson and Lane . . . 'Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved,' says George R.R.... Read more

Tyrant's Throne

By: Sebastien de Castell

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'First-rate fiction, first rate adventure, first rate full stop' - Sunday Times bestseller Conn Iggulden.

Would you - could you? - uphold the law at the cost of those you love?

Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and... Read more

Fish Have No Feet

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Keflavik: a town that has been called the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished. Its livelihood depends entirely on a U.S. military base, a conduit for American influences that shaped Icelandic culture and ethics from the 1950s to the dawning of the new millennium.

It is to Keflavik... Read more

La Vie des Disciples de Jésus-Christ, jusqu' à la Destruction du Temple de Jérusalem. - Abridged

By: Israel Nazir

Narrated by: Israel Nazir

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cette histoire romancée ou roman historique commence quelques jours après la crucifixion de Jésus-Christ par la découverte par Marie-Madeleine et Marie-Salomé du sépulcre vide de Jésus. L'histoire s'étale ensuite sur les 40 années qui suivirent et se termine par la destruction du Temple de Jérusalem.

Cette histoire est centrée sur la vie des... Read more

The Emperor's General - Abridged

By: James Webb

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through.

But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his... 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

Zeit zu verzeihen - Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Hera Lind

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine wahre Liebesgeschichte aus der dunkelsten Zeit der DDR: Bestseller-Autorin Hera Lind erzählt in ihrem Tatsachen-Roman Zeit zu verzeihen von einem unvorstellbaren Verrat, einer qualvollen Zeit im DDR-Gefängnis und von der Kraft wahrer Liebe. Als sich Clara und Viktor im Sommer 1965 begegnen, wissen sie nicht, dass sie sich schon einmal als... Read more

Zeit des Verrats - Schwert und Krone 3 (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Gabriele Blum

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

März 1152: Gerade wurde Friedrich von Staufen zum König gekrönt, und nun will er das von Kriegen zerrüttete Land erneuern. Verbündete gewinnt er, indem er ihnen Ländereien und Titel zuspricht, gegen Feinde geht er mit eiserner Hand vor. Doch vom ersten Tag an hat Friedrich eine starke Fürstenopposition gegen sich, der missfällt, dass auf einmal... Read more

Götterflüstern. Verlorene Liebe - Abridged

By: Jenny Völker

Narrated by: Désirée Singson

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Werden sie sich wiedersehen? Elli ist zurück in der Gegenwart. Eigentlich wollte sie die Auszeit in Athen nutzen, um sich zu erholen, doch sie kann die Erlebnisse nicht vergessen. Akribisch recherchiert sie, um herauszufinden, was hinter all dem steckt. Plötzlich geschehen merkwürdige Dinge. Als sie dann auch noch jemanden sieht, mit dem sie... Read more

Gala und Dalí - Die Unzertrennlichen - Berühmte Paare - große Geschichten, Band 1 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Sylvia Frank

Narrated by: Eva Becker

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Das Leben ist zu kurz, um unbemerkt zu bleiben." Spanien, 1929: Gala begleitet ihren Mann, den Dichter Paul Éluard, in den Fischerort Cadaqués, wo er einen jungen Künstler namens Salvador treffen will, der bald in Paris ausstellen soll. Als Gala den zehn Jahre jüngeren Künstler kennenlernt, ist sie fasziniert von seinem eigenwilligen... Read more

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Abridged

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more

Eine Familie in Berlin - Ursula und die Farben der Hoffnung - Die große Berlin-Familiensaga, Band 2 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Renk

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ursula ist talentiert, mutig und voller Leidenschaft." Ulrike Renk Potsdam 1911: Ursulas größte Leidenschaft ist die Kunst. Seit sie denken kann, zeichnet sie, alles hat für sie Formen, Farben und eine Geschichte. Als sie die Kunststudentin Vera Dehmel kennenlernt, taucht sie an ihrer Seite in eine ganz neue Welt ein. Nicht nur lernt sie... Read more