Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Christmas Hope

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Perry's "vastly entertaining" (Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger) holiday novels are "as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable, the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London—and a lonely woman's search for meaning in her life.Claudine... Read more

The King Arthur Trilogy Book One

By: M.K. Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

We meet Arthur first as a shy, subservient twelve-year-old living in the home of Lord Ector, who took in the boy when he was a babe to protect him from murderous kin. One day, three influential men arrive at Ector' s villa and arrange for Arthur to be taught the skills of the warrior: blade and shield, horse and fire, pain and bravery. When they... Read more

My Uncle Jules

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"An impoverished French family awaits the prodigal return of their long vanished Uncle Jules from his travels in America.

From his letters it would appear that he has made his fortune and when he returns the family hopes their fortunes will change too.

A boat trip to Jersey provides the opporunity for a reunion...but nobody could anticipate the... Read more

The Parrot

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Desiree is married to a wealthy but violent captain of a fishing trawler. For ten years of marriage he terrorizes her, until one night his boat is wrecked at sea and he is never seen alive again.

Four years later, Desiree buys an ill-tempered and foul-mouthed parrot in an auction, and a new nightmare begins. Read more

A Queer Night in Paris

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to Paris to visit the opera and takes the opportunity to rub shoulders with famous artists in the cafés of Montmartre.

He is unexpectedly invited to a housewarming party by a notable painter...but things do not go at all as he expected. His host vanishes... Read more

Mystique

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This spectacular romantic novel unveils a tantalizing tale of a legendary knight, a headstrong lady, and a quest for an ancient crystal. To find the mystical Stone of Scarcliffe, Sir Hugh needs the assistance of Lady Alice of Lingwood, a flame-haired beauty with a dazzling intellect. Together, Hugh and Alice begin a dangerous adventure that... Read more

Return to Me

By: Lynn Austin

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling Author Lynn Austin Launches New Biblical Saga After years of watching his children and grandchildren wander from their faith, Iddo's prayers are answered: King Cyrus is allowing God's chosen people to return to Jerusalem. Jubilant, he joyfully prepares for their departure, only to learn that his family, grown comfortable in the pagan... Read more

Morgarten

By: J. K. Swift

Narrated by: Brad Wills

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This action-packed conclusion to The Forest Knights series picks up where ALTDORF left off.A small force of peasants from the forest regions surrounding Lake Lucerne, rise up against their Austrian overlords in the 14th century. Outnumbered seven-to-one by the battle-hardened Habsburg army, they have little hope.Young Noll Melchthal has managed... Read more

Slightly Shady

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Quick, best-selling author of Regency-era romances, has won many awards for her works including the New York Times best-selling Wicked Widow. Each work transports fans into a richly detailed world of intrigue and desire. There are now over 25 million copies of her books in print. Besieged by gambling debts, a desperate gentleman purchases... Read more

When the Dawn Breaks

By: Emma Fraser

Narrated by: Jane MacFarlane

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice.

Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss and heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps - even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a... Read more

Sensual Danger (Venice Vampyr #4)

By: Tina Folsom

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Venice, Italy - early 1800sWhen vampire Nico purchases a house to further his fellow vampires' goal of creating a secure compound within Venice, he doesn't expect to get a headstrong wife in the bargain. He plans to send her to the mainland after their wedding night so he can continue his debauched bachelor life.But when he meets the... Read more

Promise Me Texas

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On a midnight train, four hours away from her wedding, Beth McMurray discovers the devastating truth about the powerful senator she's about to marry. Convinced nothing could make this stormy night worse, the train wrecks, and she tumbles straight into the arms of an outlaw. Andrew McLaughlin doesn't believe in loving except between the pages of... Read more

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

By: Sebastian Faulks

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)—return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks.

P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915... Read more

The Nero Decree

By: Gregory Lee

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a violent argument over a secret key causes young Johann to lose the only parent he has left. Worse, it is his half-brother, Dieter, who commits this horrific act of betrayal. Although their fragile family bonds are irrevocably destroyed, the brothers’ paths are destined to cross again.Years later, Hitler’s... Read more

Triptych

By: Margit Liesche

Narrated by: Terri McMahon

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Budapest, 1956. In the darkest year of Hungary's modern history, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Évike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters, armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy... Read more

Havisham

By: Ronald Frame

Narrated by: Sophie Ward

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting... Read more

The Valley of Amazement

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean & Amy Tan

Length: 24 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese villageShanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of... Read more

Burning Paradise

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness.
Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015.

Cassie's world has been at peace since the... Read more

Bellman & Black

By: Diane Setterfield

Narrated by: Jack Davenport

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author

“An astonishing work of genius.” —Bookreporter
“Magically transformative.” —Bookpage

Can one moment in time haunt you forever?
From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Tale comes a “poetic and mysterious” (Booklist) story that will haunt you to your very core.

Caught up in a... Read more

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are.
 
Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear,... Read more

A Dance of Blades

By: David Dalglish

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish
It's been five long years since the city learned to fear. . .

In book #2 of the Shadowdance series, the war between the thief guilds and the powerful allegiance known as the Trifect has slowly dwindled. Now only the mysterious Haern is left to wage his private battle against the guilds in the guise... Read more

The Offer

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Reader:Phillip Mercerault and Sabrina Eversleigh first appeared in An Honorable Offer, a Regency romance published in 1981. I changed the title to The Offer to reflect its new status as a historical romance after I rewrote the novel extensively (in 1997). The result is a complex, fascinating story with thrilling plot twists and richer... Read more

The Major and the Pickpocket

By: Lucy Ashford

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Trying to escape, were you?" Tassie bit her lip. Why hadn't he turned her over to the constables? She certainly wasn't going to try to run past him, even if he did have a limp. She was tall, but this man towered over her-- six feet of hardened muscle, shoulders forbiddingly broad beneath his riding coat, strong booted legs set firmly apart.... Read more

The Nine Giants - Nicholas Bracewell - The Dramatic Elizabethan Whodunnit, book 4 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiery star of the company of players called Lord Westfield's Men, Laurence Firethorn, is hot for a lady, wife of the Lord Mayor elect. A tryst at London's Nine Giants Inn is arranged. Meanwhile, the lugubrious landlord of the actors' home base is laid even lower by a plot to take over ownership of the inn. A young apprentice actor is... Read more