Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lilac Ink - The Knocknashee Story Book 1

By: Jean Grainger

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As the world teeters on the brink of war in 1937, two young souls separated by an ocean are about to discover a connection that defies logic and time. Grace Fitzgerald, a fiery-haired dreamer, longs to escape the confines of her windswept Dingle fishing village. Across the Atlantic, Richard Lewis, heir to a Savannah banking fortune, suffocates... Read more

Daughter of Hong Kong

By: Siobhan Daiko

Narrated by: Elizabeth Chan

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a true story, a tale of love and survival against all the odds set in Hong Kong at the start of the Pacific War.Can love conquer all?Spring 1939 - dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong.Connie is intrigued by Will’s talent for writing poetry, and as romance... Read more

Memoria

By: J.J. Fischer

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Would you save a life if you knew it would destroy another?

In the deeply divided world of Caldera, nothing is as it seems. Taken captive by a faceless enemy, Sephone Winter fights to reclaim her soul as her gift spirals out of control and the deadly poison coursing through her veins begins to exact its terrible vengeance.

Meanwhile, Dorian and... Read more

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

By: Len Deighton

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men—Captain... Read more

Dorchester Terrace

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Amy Scanlon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain’s Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. His own self-doubt is fueled by rumors of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover–London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel. But why destroy an entire train to kill one... Read more

Match Me If You Can

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Hannah Martin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

After five unsuccessful seasons, Emma Bartholomew's stepmother threatens to auction off her hand in marriage. Horrified at the idea, Emma enlists the help of the School for Spinsters to help her find a husband quickly. But she knows that no man will want to wed her after he learns the secret she's hiding . . . that she's practically blind.



Cormac... Read more

Lord of Darkness

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg, Lord of Darkness is a classic swashbuckling adventure.Captured by pirates and brought to the west coast of Africa, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in seventeenth-century England. His only hope of returning is to work hard and be awarded freedom by his Portuguese... Read more

No Ordinary Duchess

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, the much-anticipated third novel in the Greycourt series.
 
Cold and brooding, Julian Greycourt, the heir to the Windemere dukedom, has always known that his uncle the duke was responsible for his mother’s death. Now he’s determined to exact revenge against his uncle—if he can find the proof. But Julian... Read more

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 3

By: Kafka Asagiri & Sango Harukawa

Narrated by: Patrick Seitz

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a decade before the events of the manga series, a chance encounter leads professional bodyguard Yukichi Fukuzawa to begrudgingly take an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa under his wing. Their first job brings them to a local theater on high alert after receiving a bizarre death threat—a challenge that will require both Ranpo’s brains... Read more

The Champagne Letters

By: Kate MacIntosh

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Jackie Sanders

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of bubbly wine and Kristin Harmel, this historical fiction novel follows Mme. Clicquot as she builds her legacy, and the modern divorcée who looks to her letters for inspiration.

Reims, France, 1805: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot has just lost her beloved husband but is determined to pursue their dream of creating the premier champagne... Read more

Murder With Madness

By: Blythe Baker

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sylvia and Miles travel to London to investigate the murder of Miles's late wife. At last, Miles is about to solve the crime that has haunted him for so long. There's just one problem. The killer is dangerous and cunning.



With Miles tracking down leads in the city, can Sylvia uncover the truth during a deadly weekend in the English countryside?... Read more

The City of Marble and Blood

By: Howard Andrew Jones

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Gladiators, legionnaires, scheming sorcerers, and dark gods had battered Hanuvar but not stopped him. The great Volani general now returns to the land of his enemies!



Hanuvar pledged to find the remnants of his people, scattered into slavery across the whole of the peninsula. This time he had no army. His would be a stealthy war of liberation,... Read more

Pretty Dead Things

By: Lilian West

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A bride-to-be's discovery of long-lost wedding rings at an estate sale reveals the key to a decades-old cold case in a small-town mystery.



2024. Recently-engaged city girl Cora is new to the small town of Hickory Falls. Still adjusting to the change in pace, she's delighted when she stumbles upon a quaint estate sale. Drawn in by the knickknacks,... Read more

The Ginger Cat

By: Lucia Ashta

Narrated by: Sasha Higgins

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A cat with a terrible secret. A boy back from the dead. A cursed firedrake. A man split in half for love. Magic was never meant to be safe.



The immortal Count Washur has been waiting for Clara to grow more powerful to collect her soul. Now he's after her.



Washur Castle comes alive with dark magic while it carries out the Count's attack. Clara... Read more

We Are the Beasts

By: Gigi Griffis

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers & Graham Halstead

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Deaths and disappearances pile up as a mysterious beast stalks the French countryside and two girls seize an unlikely opportunity that just might save them all—or serve them up on a platter.

Step into this chilling, historical horror inspired by the unsolved mystery of the Beast of Gévaudan.

When a series of brutal, mysterious deaths start... Read more

The French Winemaker’s Daughter

By: Loretta Ellsworth

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during World War II, an unforgettable historical novel about love, war, family, and loyalty told in in the voices of two women, generations apart, who find themselves connected by a mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis.1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides in an armoire when the Nazis come to take her father away. Pinned... Read more

Lady of the English

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes a gripping, never-before-told, medieval battle of the sexes that sheds light on one of medieval royalty's most fascinating women?Queen Matilda.1135, England: Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But... Read more

Sanditon

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott...

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 1817, Jane Austen commenced work on a new novel, to which she never assigned a name. By mid-March, she had completed twelve chapters, at which time she ceased working due to illness. The unfinished work was eventually published in 1925 under its working title: Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817. It has... Read more

Yuletide Bride

By: Kasey Stockton

Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When a marriage of convenience becomes inconveniently complicated… Mercy Caldwell, the vicar’s eldest daughter, has watched her younger sisters march down the aisle while she remains resolutely on the shelf. When a chance at matrimony arrives mere hours after her youngest sister’s engagement, Mercy seizes the opportunity—and the man she’s... Read more

Io

By: Minerva Spencer & S.M. LaViolette

Narrated by: Clare Staniforth

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Lady Io Hale has no time for men. And certainly no time for her older brother's stuffy, grumpy, and oh-so-proper best friend, Corbin Masterson, who believes he is so morally superior to everyone else, especially her. Io might have been wrenched from her home in New York, dragged to London, and forced to attend ton parties and balls, but she is... Read more

Mortal Radiance

By: Kathryn Lasky

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

New Mexico, 1935. Painter Georgia O'Keeffe is at her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan's home, Los Gallos, a house inhabited by a colorful range of artists, authors, and society figures, to attend the memorial service of the renowned writer D.H. Lawrence.



Georgia has been commissioned to design the stained-glass windows for the small memorial chapel in... Read more

Death on Tremont Row

By: Lee Strauss

Narrated by: Pamela Dillman

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Death isn't an act! It’s been five years since Haley Higgins moved back from London to Boston, and in that time she’s become a doctor of pathology and the assistant pathologist at the Boston City Morgue. In her position, she often assists in the solving of crimes and murders, particularly since she’s been working in tandem with Samantha Hawke,... Read more

The Rest Is Memory

By: Lily Tuck

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

THE HEARTBREAKING STORY OF A YOUNG CATHOLIC GIRL TRANSPORTED TO AUSCHWITZ BECOMES A RASHOMON-LIKE RONDO BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST NOVELISTS.First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world... Read more

The Vampire of Kings Street

By: Asha Greyling

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Miss Radhika Dhingra, a newly minted lawyer in nineteenth century New York, never expected that her first client would be a vampire accused of murder.



Having a resident vampire is just the thing for upper-class New Yorkers—besides being a status symbol, they make excellent butlers or housekeepers. The only thing they require in return is a drop... Read more