Historical Fiction audiobooks

Western Stories: Geschichten aus dem Wilden Westen - Die Box - Abridged

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten und packendsten Wildwest-Stories von Bret Harte. Einsame Reiter, die zu Helden werden. Männer, die den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse kämpfen. Frauen, die nur scheinbar das "schwache Geschlecht" sind... Mit dabei: Der Glücksbringer von Roaring Camp, Die Ausgestoßenen von Poker Flat, Miggles, Das Idyll von Red Gulch, Ein Fremder... Read more

The Scarlet Thief

By: Paul Fraser Collard

Narrated by: Dudley Hinton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Scarlet Thief by Paul Fraser Collard introduces roguish hero Jack Lark - dubbed 'Sharpe meets the Talented Mr Ripley' - who gets his first taste of battle and bloodshed in the Crimea. 'An appealing and formidable hero' (Sunday Express) for fans of Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series and Conn Iggulden.

1854: The banks of the Alma River,... Read more

Warlord

By: Angus Donald

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1194. Finally released from captivity, Richard the Lionheart is in Normandy engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of his continental patrimony. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare - siege, savagery and scorched earth - the Lionheart is gradually pushing back the forces of King Philip of France. By his side in this epic... Read more

Southern Cross the Dog

By: Bill Cheng

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the pastWith clouds looming ominously on the horizon, a group of children play among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be interrupted by a merciless storm–bringing with it the Great Flood of 1927–but not before Robert Chatham... Read more

Benjamin Franklin's Bastard

By: Sally Cabot

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Frankiln’s Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both.William Franklin, the son of Benjamin and his favorite mistress, Anne, is... Read more

Cheyenne Amber

By: Catherine Anderson

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Catherine Anderson counts a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award among her many honors. Set in Colorado in the year 1864, Cheyenne Amber tells the tale of Boston-born Laura Cheney, who finds herself widowed and alone in the wilderness with her newborn son. When her baby is kidnapped, Laura turns to Deke... Read more

The Other Typist

By: Suzanne Rindell

Narrated by: Gretchen Mol

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…

Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes of the keys before her, she seals their fate. But while... Read more

A Sparrow Falls

By: Wilbur Smith

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A Sparrow Falls is the next in Wilbur Smith's Courtney Family Adventures series.Mark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe's Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other….In Africa, Mark's family estate has been despoiled. His... Read more

Call Me Zelda

By: Erika Robuck

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a distraction from their inner turmoil and from a love that united them with a scorching intensity.

When Zelda... Read more

Murder as a Fine Art

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years... Read more

It Happened at the Fair

By: Deeanne Gist

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the Fair's Machinery Palace makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of... Read more

Wild Texas Rose

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Multiple RITA Award winner Jodi Thomas has penned numerous New York Times best-sellers. Wild Texas Rose is the sixth thrilling installment in the ever-popular Whispering Mountain series. Rose McMurray is fearless when it comes to running the family ranch, but any kind of adventure -- including falling in love -- is another matter. When she ends... Read more

Matter of Trust

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Engaging Pride and Prejudice ‘what-if’ story with a hint of intrigue and a touch of romance.A young bride whom he married to prevent a scandal. A mysterious, wayward aunt whom he never really knew. A woefully misguided sister whom he removed from harm’s way.Undermining Darcy’s relationships with the three women in his life is a most disturbing... Read more

All That Is

By: James Salter

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when... Read more

The Cost of Courage

By: Kelly Estes

Narrated by: Dan McGowan

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cost of Courage is a work of military fiction based on the true story of two brothers who served in separate campaigns of World War II. After being shot down over Berlin, one brother is forced to endure both mental and physical torture as a POW at Stalag Luft III. A defiant soul, he earns the respect of his comrades by making life difficult... Read more

The Miser of Mayfair

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be... Read more

Plain Jane

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Number 67 Clarges Street—a good address in London’s elegant Mayfair with a dubious past and a lovably eccentric staff—is where the Hart sisters are taking up residence for the season. Beautiful and socially ambitious Euphemia and her younger sister, Jane, enter a world of balls, coming-out parties, and courtship with the hope of finding suitable... Read more

A Bespoke Murder - The Home Front Detective Series, book 1 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge. Not even the West End of London is immune. Jacob Stein's bespoke tailoring business comes under brutal attack, leaving his safe ransacked, his daughter, Ruth, raped and Jacob... Read more

Autobiography of Us

By: Aria Beth Sloss

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss, and love—a confession of what passed between two women who met as girlsComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California, during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers' narrow expectations. Their struggle to define... Read more

A Rescue for a Queen

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

February, 1571. Ursula is once more plunged into affairs of the state when she escorts her foster daughter Margaret to the Netherlands to meet her suitor. The queen's spymaster, Sir William Cecil, learns that the wealthy Italian banker Roberto Ridolfi will be hosting their forthcoming wedding - a man who he fears may once again be plotting to... Read more

The Caspian Gates

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

AD 262. The Roman Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne that brought Gallienus to power. Ephesus, the metropolis of the Eastern Empire, lies in ruins, shattered by a mighty earthquake. Its citizens live in fear as the mob overwhelms the city, baying for blood to avenge the gods who have punished them. Yet an even greater... Read more

Good Man Friday

By: Barbara Hambly

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloe, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes... Read more

Fork Your Own Broncs

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Exciting Western Adventure From America's Best-Loved Storyteller

Louis L'Amour takes you back to the rough and tumble days of the Old West as you've never heard it before. A place with few rules--where men and women are inclined to make their own. Complete with a full cast, stirring music, and dramatic sound effects, this exclusive production of... Read more

The Sisterhood

By: Helen Bryan

Narrated by: Laura Roppé

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken to a new life.As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, engaged, and excited about the future—until another... Read more