Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Guardian

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After years of fighting abroad, Ian MacDonald comes home to find his clan in peril. To save his kin, he must right the wrongs from his past…and claim the bride he's long resisted.



As a young lass, Sìleas depended on Ian to play her knight in shining armor. But when his rescue attempt compromised her virtue, Ian was forced to marry against his... Read more

Das Spiel der Nachtigall (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Tanja Kinkel

Narrated by: Uve Teschner & Kathrin Fröhlich

Length: 31 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts beginnt ein Junge aus ärmsten Verhältnissen seinen unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg an die Spitze der Minnesänger, um den sich die Fürstenhöfe streiten - und das, obwohl Walther von der Vogelweide mit allen Konventionen bricht und dem Minnesang die Keuschheit nimmt. Was keiner seiner Gönner ahnt, die ihn als "Nachtigall"... Read more

The Summer Queen

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Katie Scarfe

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times
'Meticulous research and strong storytelling' Woman & Home
'A sumptuous ride' Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph

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Eleanor of Aquitaine
A loving mother. A betrayed wife. A queen beyond compare.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's story is legendary. She is an icon who has... Read more

Instructions for a Heatwave

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable bestseller The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox—blend richly... Read more

Tarnish

By: Katherine Longshore

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Boleyn is the odd girl out. Newly arrived to the court of King Henry VIII, everything about her seems wrong, from her clothes to her manners to her witty but sharp tongue. So when the dashing poet Thomas Wyatt offers to coach her on how to shine at court—and to convince the whole court they’re lovers—she accepts. Before long, Anne’s... Read more

What the Duke Desires

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, long ago buried his grief for his missing elder brother, Peter, who was presumed dead after being kidnapped. When a mysterious note arrives from Tristan Bonnaud asserting that the Duke's brother is alive, it leads Max straight to the winsome Lisette Bonnaud, illegitimate daughter of a viscount and Tristan's... Read more

Masaryk Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American... Read more

The Perks of Being a Beauty

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful Miss Amelia Snowe is not accustomed to being snubbed by the gentlemen of the ton. But when her mother dies unexpectedly, forcing Amelia to take employment as companion to a wealthy cit's daughter, she quickly learns to play down her looks or risk losing her position. When her employers, the Smithsons, decide to throw a country... Read more

Restoration

By: Rose Tremain

Narrated by: Paul Daneman

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

From Rose Tremain comes the Booker Prize short-listed novel that "restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor" (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and... Read more

Destiny's Embrace

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Beverly Jenkins' historical romances have earned her a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writers' Guild and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times. Set in 19th-century California, Destiny's Embrace introduces listeners to ranch owner Logan Yates, who must come to terms with his true feelings for Mariah Cooper, his beautiful, headstrong... Read more

Highland Rake

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Borah Coburn

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Dougald MacNeill is the next to youngest MacNeill brother and he's not about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his lap... and then, the trouble begins. When Dougald finds Alana roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands, he takes her in hand to see his laird brother James at Craigly Castle to determine her fate. But... Read more

The King's Deception

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This Cotton Malone adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense.
 
Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a... Read more

The Confessions of Al Capone

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he... Read more

One Heart to Win

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, presents a passionate novel of hidden identities, family secrets, and love that transcends a fifty-year feud set in the 1880s in the majestic ranchland of the Montana territory.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love—but Tiffany Warren is... Read more

The Ides of April

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Lucy Brown

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign... Read more

The King's Deception - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This Cotton Malone adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense.
 
Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a... Read more

Lawman from Nogales

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's name is permanently branded atop any list of the best writers in the Western genre. Lawman from Nogales features one of Cotton's most iconic characters, legendary Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. Heedless of danger, Burrack shrugs off fears of ambush as he hunts down Luis and Teto Torres, leaders of the... Read more

Francesca

By: Bertrice Small

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues her glorious historical-romance series featuring four sisters in Renaissance Florence who have anything but marriage on their minds. Giovanni Pietro d' Angelos selected his oldest daughter' s husband, and the marriage proved to be a disaster. He offers to give his next oldest daughter,... Read more

The Last of Days

By: Paul Doherty

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The last days of Henry VIII's reign were taut with tension as the Council factions, ruthless and power-hungry, manoeuvred and fought. Not to mention the tension within the despot himself, his fears and phobias, the obsession he'd developed with the sexually-dominating Howard women. THE LAST OF DAYS chronicles the fascinating disintegration of... Read more

The Gilded Fan

By: Christina Courtenay

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to flee to England. Captain Nico Noordholt's ship is her last chance, but the he doesn't really want a female passenger, especially a beautiful one. During their journey, Nico and Midori form a tentative bond,... Read more

The Lost Abbot

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358, but his friendship with the lovely Julitta Holm has caused a scandal in Cambridge, so he has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, charged to discover what happened to Peterborough's abbot, who went for a ride one day and has not been seen... Read more

The Shining Girls

By: Lauren Beukes

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Khristine Hvam, Jay Snyder, Joshua...

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to... Read more

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

By: Anton DiSclafani

Narrated by: Adina Verson

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This summer’s first romantic page turner.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today, NPR, and People summer reads pick

From the author of The After Party, a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls’-school rituals, set... Read more

Studio Saint-Ex

By: Ania Szado

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This sleek, stylish novel set in 1940s New York, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe, is a deft, romantic novel about a wartime love triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her career; the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exup├®ry, who's left... Read more