Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Disappeared

By: Rebecca J. Sanford

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the real mothers and grandmothers who spoke out against Argentina’s military dictatorship, The Disappeared is an award-winning debut about identity, family secrets, and those who endured decades of hardship to expose the truth.In 1976 Buenos Aires, Lorena Ledesma is a housewife with dangerous secrets living under Argentina’s rising... Read more

The Nightingale's Castle

By: Sonia Velton

Narrated by: Elinor Coleman

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of riveting historical novels such as Hamnet and Circe—with a touch of Dracula—a propulsive, feminist reimagining of the story of Erzsébet Báthory, the infamous sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat known as the “Blood Countess”, who was rumored to have murdered hundreds of peasant girls and bathed in their blood.In 1573, Countess... Read more

Fire When Ready

By: Kate Kingsbury

Narrated by: Mary Sarah

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh book in the fabulous Manor House Mystery Series by Kate Kingsbury, the bestselling author of the Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries!



Enthralling mystery, lots of laughter, and a little bit of romance—that's village life in wartime England . . .



Left with only a muddle-headed butler, a bossy cook/housekeeper, and a couple of energetic maids,... Read more

Wiley

By: Kit Morgan

Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rich Man. A Lowly Maid. And Snow Flakes!



Wiley Snow was known as the Soap Prince of the eastern seaboard. His family might be eccentric, but their money made up for it. They made their fortune off Snow Flakes, an invention of his father's, and more than a few families wanted their daughter paired with Wiley. So when it came time for his sister... Read more

Lady Notorious

By: Theresa Romain

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

London society knows George Godwin, Lord Eastbrook, as a fun-loving rogue—but since a near-tragedy, George has preferred scientific experiments to scandal. Yet his favorite thing of all is matching wits with Cassandra Benton, a maddeningly clever investigator who works alongside her Bow Street Runner brother. Skilled and shrewd, the Benton twins... Read more

Marquess of Mayhem

By: Scarlett Scott

Narrated by: Will Watt & Victoria Aston

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Vengeance with a side of seduction… Returning to London scarred and bitter after his capture by Napoleon’s forces, Morgan, Marquess of Searle, is hell-bent on vengeance against the man responsible for his imprisonment. He’ll do anything to get what he wants, even if it means destroying an innocent in the process. There’s just one problem. He’s... Read more

The Russia House

By: John Le Carré

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"…a well-informed, up-to-the-minute political parable, incisive and instructive." —The New York Times Book Review In the era of perestroika and glasnost in the USSR, a manuscript is meant to be delivered to one Bartholomew "Barley" Blair, a British publisher known for his eccentricity. The manuscript, penned by Russian scientist Yakov Savelyev,... Read more

A Kingdom to Claim

By: Sian Ann Bessey

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Aisley lost everything in a Viking attack. Now, working alongside the one man she trusts, she is ready to fight for her people—and for love.Aisley’s young life was changed forever when her father accompanied King Alfred into battle and lost his life in a deadly skirmish with the Vikings. Now, almost seven years later, the Vikings are once again... Read more

The Markham Hall Collection

By: Sierra Simone

Narrated by: Shane East, Zara Hampton-Brown, Roxy Isles & Ga...

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

I am alone.

I am afraid.

And I am completely his.

***

When Ivy Leavold is left destitute by her brother's death, she is taken in by her cousin's brooding, tortured widower—Julian Markham. Handsome and possessive, it's not long before Ivy falls for him. 

But Mr. Markham has dark secrets, secrets that may put Ivy in danger…

This collection of... Read more

Spice and Wolf, Vol. 10

By: Isuna Hasekura

Narrated by: J. Michael Tatum & Brina Palencia

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After the turmoil in Kerube, Lawrence and his companions make for the Kingdom of Winfiel across the sea. Their destination is the great abbey of Brondel, said to hold the wolf bones they seek. Arriving in the kingdom, they hear tell that the abbey, normally prosperous due to its great wool trade, has fallen into a financial crisis. Worse, the... Read more

Double Asset (A Tyler Wolf Espionage Thriller—Book 3)

By: Jack Mars

Narrated by: Hades (synthesized voice)

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced by Jack Mars, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “Thriller writing at its best.” --Midwest Book Review (Any Means Necessary) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From the #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars (with over 10,000 five-star reviews) comes a groundbreaking new... Read more

Children of Their Time

By: Jenny Glanfield

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 26 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Viktoria's family is divided as her country is divided . . .



Berlin, Germany: When Stefan Jochum returns from England to Berlin in August 1945, it is to find a city counting the cost of the Second World War. The Hotel Quadriga is in ruins, his father is dead and his sister, Monika, is living in the Soviet-occupied zone. Determined to survive... Read more

Lady Chatterley's Lover

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Shea Taylor & Nicola F Delgado

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is based on literature that was written in a past cultural or historical context, and includes language and depictions of people or cultures that are considered offensive to listeners. Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how and when you’ll listen.Banned in the 1920s, and not released widely until the 1960s, Lady... Read more

The Midwife's Touch

By: Sue Harrison

Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare gift determines one woman's destiny in the breathtaking debut of a new trilogy from the internationally bestselling author of the Ivory Carver Trilogy.



At just six years old, it becomes clear that China Creed's birthright, passed down from her mother's side of the family, is the power to grant wishes with only a touch. In their small... Read more

The Long Shadow of Panjshir

By: W T Delaney

Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A story that starts in the valley of the Five Lions where the past has malignantly shaped the violent present to produce an uncertain future. The Long Shadow of Panjshir is a spy-based military adventure novel that explores the murky and dangerous world of covert intelligence collection.
It’s London 2022, a year after the fall of Kabul, and a... Read more

Summers Dawn

By: Dorothy M. Mitchell

Narrated by: Colette Redgrave

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Summers is quite a mixed-up young boy. Born during the Second World War, the boy knows all about going without many things.
Joe's father, Mark, who he once adored, has an accident that leaves him badly injured and much changed and becomes a no-good drunkard. Unfortunately, Joe also gets mixed up with an older boy who comes from a bad... Read more

Sisters of Shiloh

By: Kathy Hepinstall & Becky Hepinstall Hilliker

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year
 
"Kathy and Becky Hepinstall plunge us so deeply into a complete and vividly rendered world. . . We can smell the gun powder and taste the metallic tinge of fear along with their remarkable heroines.” — Janis Cooke Newman, author of Mary

“[The Hepinstalls] present lucky readers with a tale of love and hate,... Read more

A Girl with a Knife

By: Alina Rubin

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Illinois Soon To Be Famous Author Contest



After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides that dishonesty is fine when it serves her needs. Ella escapes her luxurious but lonely life and meets an eccentric ship surgeon who allows her to assist him during a surgery.



Compelled by... Read more

Sarai

By: Jill Eileen Smith

Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarai, the last child of her aged father, is beautiful, spoiled, and used to getting her own way. Even as a young girl, she is aware of the way men look at her, including her half brother Abram. When Abram finally requests Sarai's hand, she asks one thing—that he promise never to take another wife as long as she lives. Even her father thinks the... Read more

Of Judgement Fallen

By: Steven Veerapen

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting critic of the Cardinal is found brutally slain whilst awaiting an audience at Richmond Palace. He... Read more

Finding Miriama

By: Donna Goodacre

Narrated by: Naomi Barton

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 2003 in New Zealand, and Louisa Greenwood and her daughter Ngaroma are on a quest to discover their ancestry. Louisa has a greenstone necklace left to her in her father’s will, and from the first time Ngaroma wears it, she has unusual experiences, both good and bad. It leads her to various locations in New Zealand and England until,... Read more

Fair is the Rose

By: Meagan McKinney

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On the run from the law for a crime she didn't commit, a woman must trust her life to a gunslinger who is not what he seems in award-winning author Meagan McKinney's sensual and suspenseful historical romance



With her face on Wanted posters from New York to Missouri, Christal Van Alen dons a disguise, determined to clear her name by bringing the... Read more

Penric and the Bandit

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange company …When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country inn with an intriguing treasure map, he thinks he’s scouted an easy and lucrative victim. Attaching himself to odd traveler Penric seems simple enough, but when Roz’s old enemies catch up from behind, his plans take a turn for the... Read more

A Lethal Lady

By: Nekesa Afia

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Louise Lloyd’s time away in Paris is everything she was hoping it would be until a shocking murder turns her entire world upside down.

Louise Lloyd is finally living the quiet life she’d longed for, working in a parfumerie by day and spending time with her new friends every night at the Aquarius club in Paris. When a desperate mother asks for... Read more