Historical Fiction audiobooks

Eugene O’Neill: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

By: Eugene O'Neill

Narrated by: Dominic West, Shaun Dingwall, Anthony Jackson, ...

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine classic plays from the award-winning American dramatist, plus a selection of his poetry

Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays, portraying characters on the margins of society and... Read more

Nurses on Call

By: Donna Douglas

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The second instalment of The Nightingale Daughters series from Sunday Times bestselling author Donna Douglas. Perfect for fans of Call the Midwife!

London's East End, 1957

In the Nightingale Hospital, Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discovered French niece Catrine, while having to keep... Read more

A Dance for the King

By: Anton Du Beke

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

You're invited to a show to remember at the prestigious Buckingham Hotel . . .

London, 1942. The war is far from over for soldier Raymond de Guise. His wife, Nancy, is overjoyed to be reunited with her husband, and to introduce him to their son. But their safety is threatened once more as Raymond returns to the ballroom at the Buckingham Hotel,... Read more

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen & Benjamin Fife

Narrated by: Benjamin Fife

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine Morland comes from a big family of modest means and has never had any aspirations to landing a Darcy or a Colonel Brandon as you might find in Austen's other novels. Catherine's family seems to be fairly unremarkable. She truly is the least likely of Austen's heroines to be in that role. She is naive as to what might actually happen... Read more

Courage for the Cabinet Girl

By: Molly Green

Narrated by: Lucy Scott

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Working for Churchill, can she help win the war? Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms are full of secrets … June, 1941 Britain is in the throes of war, but Katharina Valentine feels sidelined. Employed as a shorthand-typist in the War Office, she is... Read more

Secrets of the Watch House

By: Jenny Ashcroft

Narrated by: Hannah Genesius

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth is waiting to be told … 'Stunning' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'Spine-tinglingly good' AMANDA GEARD 'Incredible' LORNA COOK *** Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when... Read more

One Kiss to Desire

By: Grace Callaway

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is the grab-a-fan, oh-my, on-fire kind of scrumptious." -Netgalley Reviewer, 5 starsWhen a wounded lord hires a housekeeper in disguise, secrets smolder and sparks fly in this grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, spicy and cozy small town historical romance with heat, humor, and heart!After a tragic accident, former piano virtuoso Lord... Read more

El aliento de las llamas

By: Ángela Banzas

Narrated by: Paula Iwasaki & Elsa Veiga

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Ángela Banzas, la voz del suspense gallego, regresa con una historia de amor y redención. «Encuentra a Jimena. La nada, aquí». Madrid, 1889. Largas lenguas de fuego desdibujan la solidez arquitectónica del Gran Hotel Inglés. Entre la muchedumbre, el humo, los escombros y el caos, Elvira Pardo Losada detiene la camilla sobre la que los bomberos... Read more

The Antiquary

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Katherine Leer

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Antiquary is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1816, and is part of his Waverley series. The story unfolds in the fictional coastal town of Fairport, Scotland, and centers around Jonathan Oldbuck, an antiquary and collector of historical artifacts, who embodies both eccentricity and a deep appreciation for the past. The narrative... Read more

Hotel Silber – neue Zeit, alte Schuld

By: Kai Bliesener

Narrated by: Sebastian Walch

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein vielschichtiger Kriminalroman über ein bisher nicht erzähltes Kapitel Nachkriegsgeschichte. Stuttgart 1945. Der Polizeibeamte Paul Kramer muss mithelfen, im berüchtigten Hotel Silber die neue Kriminalpolizei aufzubauen – genau an jenem Ort, an dem er wenige Tage vor Kriegsende noch von der Gestapo gefoltert wurde. Doch Hass und Ideologie... Read more

Nombre en clave: Verity

By: Elizabeth Wein

Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda & Esther Isla

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Dos chicas. Sus vidas cruzadas en una amistad improbable. Una lucha por sobrevivir a la guerra más devastadora. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista
TIME. Dos chicas de orígenes completamente diferentes se hacen inseparables durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial trabajando para las Fuerzas Aéreas... Read more

The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

Narrated by: Will Collier

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the coach, drawing him into a drama he could never have imagined. On reaching the coach they discover that its passengers include... Read more

Holmes and Moriarty

By: Gareth Rubin

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong & Michael Fenner

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CLEVER AND INTRIGUING CRIME MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, THE TURNGLASS.

A new Sherlock Holmes novel, endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate. 

'A wonderfully entertaining, high-speed, high-stakes adventure with two, no FOUR and more, characters from classic detective fiction! Holmes and Moriarty by Gareth... Read more

Unaufhaltsamer Abstieg ins Chaos

By: Marion Kummerow

Narrated by: Funda Vanroy

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

München, 1923: Deutschland versinkt in den düsteren Tiefen der Wirtschaftskrise, und zwei Paare stehen an der Schwelle ihres Schicksals. Helga und Heinrich Goldmann kämpfen buchstäblich um ihr nacktes Überleben, während Edith und Julius Falkenstein zur Elite Deutschlands gehören.

Als die schüchterne Edith Julius zum ersten Mal traf, war es Liebe... Read more

Das Marquess-Manöver

By: Valerie Bowman

Narrated by: Elena Puszta

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Sie ist ein Dienstmädchen mit großen Träumen.
Miss Madeline Atwood, eine pflichtbewusste Zofe, weiß genau, was die Zukunft für sie bereithält: unzählige Abende, an denen sie ihre Herrin in Seidenkleider hüllt, ihr Haar zu eleganten Locken hochsteckt und das perfekte Paar Schuhe auswählt, bevor sie sie auf einen Ball schickt. Doch Madeline hegt... Read more

Saga rodu z Lipowej: Pakiet 2

By: Marian Piotr Rawinis

Narrated by: Joanna Domańska

Length: 43 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Kontynuacja prywatnej historii rycerskiego rodu na tle wielkich wydarzeń historycznych. Zakon czy stan rycerski – przynależność do wielkich formacji ma swoje jasne i ciemne strony. Matka Sabina szuka pomocy u Hedwigi, lecz czy uda jej się naprawić krzywdy wyrządzone Odinie przez klasztor? Tymczasem sytuacja w kraju nadal niespokojna. Konrad... Read more

The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael Ward

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A chance meeting in a pub in Debenham leads our narrator to uncover the dark secrets of two men. One, the local village drunk, the other a supposedly well to do London Doctor. What common thread could possibly connect the two? The answer to that question, reveals a history of murder, and blasphemy in the name of early medical science...
A short... Read more

The Last Bookshop in Prague

By: Helen Parusel

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An utterly breathtaking WWII historical novel, perfect for fans of Kristin HannahWas she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors.The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted... Read more

Swept Into the Storm

By: Louise Mayberry

Narrated by: Marina Fess, Eden Gabay

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, 1824.  Sometimes storms can unearth the most precious treasure . . . Ever since he unexpectedly inherited his father’s earldom in the Scottish Highlands, Cameron Dunn’s been searching for something, anything, to bring meaning to his new life—a search that reaches an abrupt end when he’s washed up, alone, on a deserted... Read more

Ein fast perfekter Herzog

By: Kristina Herzog

Narrated by: Monika Mader

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein verarmter Pferdehof in Brandenburg, eine große Liebe unter keinem guten Stern und eine starke junge Frau, die mit Etikette und Anstandsregeln zu kämpfen hat. Der romantische erste Band der Regency – Liebesroman-Reihe über die Familie Cossin. Preußen, 1815: Friederike von Cossin hat ein Problem: Der Hof ihrer Familie steht bei Herzog... Read more

Blasted Things

By: Lesley Glaister

Narrated by: Danielle Cohen

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent). Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills… It’s 1920 and Britain is attempting to move on after World War I. Clementine, who was a nurse on the frontlines and suffered her own... Read more

Whisper of Hope, Cry of Despair

By: Vicky Bedi

Narrated by: Nancy Bober

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is the autobiography of the author. It began, however, as a biography of the author’s mother, which allowed Vicky to write about American society in the mid-to-late twentieth century; experiences of Slavic, French, and East Indian immigrants at the United States around the turn of the twentieth century; child and spouse abuse... Read more

A Small Hotel

By: Suanne Laqueur

Narrated by: Darren Eliker

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An American Family. A World War. A First Love. A Small Hotel.It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a Swedish-Brazilian guest named Astrid Virtanen. But the... Read more

The Little Mermaid's Voice

By: Shonna Slayton

Narrated by: Catherine Gaffney

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Would you trade your world for a soul?Ever since the fateful day when the little mermaid risked everything for a human soul, merpeople have been under lockdown—absolutely no surfacing.Sea princess Mairin bristles under the restriction and blames humans for her confinement. But when the kingdom comes under attack, the merqueen surprises Mairin by... Read more