Historical Fiction audiobooks

The King Must Die - Abridged

By: Mary Renault

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in ancient Greece, a powerful novel about Theseus by Mary Renault.This is the story of the young Theseus: Prince of Troizen, King of Eleusis and Athens, and slayer of the Minotaur. Acclaimed novelist Mary Renault weaves myth, legend, history, and fiction into the story of a young hero's search for his destiny and the countless challenges he... Read more

Where The Heart Leads - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wealthy Cynster connection Penelope Ashford has devoted herself not to making a perfect society match, but to rescuing young orphans from London's streets. But when her charges start disappearing, she turns to attractive Barnaby Adair for help. A deadly avenger in an elegant guise, Barnaby has solved crimes before, and can go where few others in... Read more

La Encantadora - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice Narrator

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

  Trilogía del Tesoro de las Highlands - Libro 2     Las tres hermanas Percy poseen el secreto de un tesoro perdido hace mucho tiempo y codiciado por el Lord Diputado de Inglaterra. Cada hermana escapa de Inglaterra por  diferentes rutas .     Huyendo de la persecución del rey inglés, la sensata Laura se refugió en las Highlands de Escocia. Pero... 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

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Paul Scofield & (Null) Cast

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

""How shall we beguile the lazy time,if not with some delight?""

Features a unique cover illustration by Maurice Sendak (Where the WildThings Are), specially commissioned for the Shakespeare on Compact Discseries. An introductory essay by Harvard scholar Harold Bloom accompanies the CD. Read more

Zeiten des Aufbruchs - Jahrhundert-Trilogie, Band 2 - Abridged

By: Carmen Korn

Narrated by: Carmen Korn

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vier Frauen. Hundert Jahre Deutschland. 1949: Die Freundinnen Henny, Käthe, Ida und Lina stammen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Verhältnissen. Dabei sind sie im Hamburger Stadtteil Uhlenhorst nicht weit voneinander entfernt aufgewachsen. Seit Jahrzehnten schon teilen sie Glück und Unglück miteinander, die kleinen Freuden genauso wie die dunkelsten... Read more

La Firestarter - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice Narrator

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

  Trilogía del Tesoro de las Highlands: Libro 3      ¡Se necesita un pirata para domar a otro!     La Trilogía del Tesoro de las Highlands recoge las vidas y los amores de tres hermanas escocesas. Ahora, en la emocionante conclusión, conoce a Adrianne... una mujer sin compromisos ni inhibiciones....     Arrojada a los brazos del hombre que desea... Read more

The First Man in Rome - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: David Ogden Stiers

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"The First Man in Rome was not the best man: he was the First among other men who were his equals...To be the First Man in Rome was something far better than kingship..."

In the first century B.C. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. Marius, a... Read more

Sword Song - Abridged

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fourth 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.The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon... Read more

The Templar Legacy - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Brian Corrigan

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Exciting . . . hard to put down without reading one more page.”—The Florida Times-Union

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces... Read more

Landser im Weltkrieg 5: Verstaubt sind die Gesichter – Mit der 2. Panzerdivision in Griechenland - Abridged

By: Hermann Weinhauer

Narrated by: Lukas Speitling

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fesselnde Landser-Geschichten in Romanheft-Länge Der vorliegende Band "Verstaubt sind die Gesichter" folgt dem Kradschützen Schubert sowie dem Panzerkommandanten Hesse während des deutschen Vormarsches in Griechenland. Über staubige Pisten rücken die schnellen Truppen der Wehrmacht tief ins Feindesland vor. Schon donnern britische... Read more

Die Chroniken des Zeitlosen - Abridged

By: Christian Reisböck

Narrated by: Simone Strohmeier

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Edward war schon alt, als ich geboren wurde. Uralt, als ich ihm das erste Mal begegnete…" Edward wird im viktorianischen London als Sohn eines Earls geboren. Er erlebt eine unbeschwerte Kindheit und ist nie ernsthaft krank. Als das 20. Jahrhundert anbricht, wird ihm klar, dass er nicht ist wie andere Menschen: Er altert kaum. Mehr und mehr... Read more

The Good German - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.

With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

Everlasting - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once Abrielle was a proud, exceptional lady coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, and her beauty. But when her stepfather is denied his rightful title and the wealth that accompanies it, Abrielle finds herself suddenly disgraced. Only one would still have her, the oafish and grotesque Desmond de Marlé. Yet no one else can rescue her... Read more

Die silberne Burg (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hätte der Medicus eine Frau sein dürfen? Sie ist Ärztin, sie ist Jüdin, und sie ist auf der Flucht vor ihrem brutalen Ehemann: Sara hat viele Geheimnisse, die sie vor den Gauklern verbirgt, mit denen sie 1415 den Rhein entlang zieht. Auch der junge Ritter Ezzo schweigt über den Auftrag der ungarischen Königin, der ihn zu den Gauklern geführt... Read more

Restless - Abridged

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Rosamund Pike

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II... Read more

Episodios Nacionales - Bailén - Abridged

By: Benito Pérez Galdós

Narrated by: Luis Canales (voz sintética)

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Episodios Nacionales - Bailén" de Benito Pérez Galdós narra la historia de la Batalla de Bailén, uno de los eventos más importantes de la Guerra de la Independencia Española. Ambientada en el año 1808, la trama sigue a Gabriel Araceli, un joven de origen humilde que se une al ejército español para luchar contra las tropas francesas. Gabriel, un... 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 Amber Room - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A winner . . . combines the pace and style of Brown’s Da Vinci Code and the densely plotted espionage of Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon novels.”—The Florida Times-Union

Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, but her life takes a dark turn when her father dies under strange circumstances, leaving behind clues to a secret about one... Read more

Tod in der Glaskugel - Abridged

By: Jessica Müller

Narrated by: Lara Hoffmann

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

London, 1865. Madame Blanche, das bekannteste Medium Londons, wird erdrosselt auf dem Friedhof Highgate gefunden. Somit bleibt für Inspector Basil Stockworth und seine Frau Charlotte keine Zeit für Flitterwochen, die Ermittlungen drängen, da der Fall in der Gesellschaft Wellen schlägt. Doch wie sich herausstellt, hatte nicht nur das Medium... Read more

Tod im East End - Abridged

By: Jessica Müller

Narrated by: Lara Hoffmann

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

London, 1865. Jack Calder, Lehrer an der Greenland's Ragged School im East End, wird erschlagen aufgefunden. Schnell entdecken Inspektor Stockworth und Sergeant Bennett bei den Ermittlungen, dass Calder Verbindungen in die Londoner Unterwelt hatte. Hatte er sich mit den falschen Leuten angelegt? Zeugen sind schwer zu finden. Doch die... Read more

Blonde - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child,... Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Aidan Gillen

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown,... Read more