Historical Fiction audiobooks

Prophet of Bones

By: Ted Kosmatka

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts listeners into an alternate present.

Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig.... Read more

The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Absolutist comes a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering, and scandal that... Read more

River of Stars

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post

“Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com

Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely... Read more

The Edge of the Earth

By: Christina Schwarz

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of... Read more

Manuscript Found in Accra

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety.
Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.
Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear. . . .
Anxiety was born in the very same... Read more

Marrying Harriet

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity—too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable, but Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, feel confident that their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the... Read more

The Chalice

By: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the next novel from Nancy Bilyeau after her acclaimed debut The Crown, novitiate Joanna Stafford plunges into an even more dangerous conspiracy as she comes up against some of the most powerful men of her era.In 1538, England is in the midst of bloody power struggles between crown and cross that threaten to tear the country apart. Joanna... Read more

On Desperate Ground

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them—life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fianc├®e and the demons... Read more

Animating Maria

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy and Effy Tribble can’t believe their luck. After four seasons spent molding intractable, wayward, or just plain frumpy young women into marriage material, their fifth season in the chaperone business brings them a dream client.Maria Kendall is beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful, and extremely well-dowered. She is a perfect... Read more

Ransom

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Overflowing with all of the majesty and intrigue of medieval glory days, this magnificent New York Times bestseller is a captivating story of passion and loyalty, justice and honor. Beloved storyteller Julie Garwood steps back to the silver-shrouded Highlands of her classic tale The Secret—and hails the return of two unforgettable warriors:... Read more

The Lion's Lady

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching, sensuous kiss. An arrogant nobleman with a pirate's passions, he tasted the wildfire smoldering beneath Christina's cool charm and swore to possess her….But the feisty... Read more

Rocky Mountain Oasis

By: Lynnette Bonner

Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

He’s different from any man she’s ever known.However, she’s sworn never to risk her heart again.Brooke Baker, sold as a mail-order bride, looks to her future with dread but firm resolve. If she survived Uncle Jackson, she can survive anyone.When Sky Jordan hears that his nefarious cousin has sent for a mail-order bride, he knows he has to... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Secrets of a Runaway Bride

By: Valerie Bowman

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Andrews has her
heart set on marrying a certain man. Now that her guardian and sister,
Lily, is off on her wedding trip on the continent, Annie is about to
make one last attempt to marry Arthur before her sister can stop her.
But Annie doesn't count on the best friend of her new brother-in-law,
Jordan Holloway, Earl of Ashbourne, fouling... Read more

Nemesis

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s baffling detective story, Nemesis, a letter from a dead man instructs Miss Marple how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left... Read more

The Handbook to Handling His Lordship

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Portsman has a secret, and three years ago she decided the best way to keep it would be to work at the Tantalus Club, a notorious gaming establishment for gentlemen. It's not the sort of work a beautiful, well-bred governess would ever consider—unless she's hiding from her past and a man who wants to destroy her present . . .

Nate Stokes,... Read more

The Moving Finger

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients,... Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

Wolfhound Century

By: Peter Higgins

Narrated by: Neil Dickson

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.

A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky... Read more

The Soldier's Wife

By: Margaret Leroy

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German... Read more

When You Give a Duke a Diamond

By: Shana Galen

Narrated by: Lucy Rivers

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

William, the sixth Duke of Pelham, enjoys his punctual, securely structured life. Orderly and predictable—that's the way he likes it. But he's in the public eye, and the scandal sheets will make up anything to sell papers. When the gossips link him to Juliette, one of the most beautiful and celebrated courtesans in London, chaos doesn't begin to... Read more

By Love Unveiled

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Marianne Winchilsea is running for her life from those whom she believes have attempted to kill the king. Forced to disguise herself, she trusts no one—especially not Garett Lockwood, the Earl of Falkham, who usurped her family home and who seems to be her most dangerous enemy.



And what Garett sees behind her masquerade is a beautiful half... Read more

Hemingway's Girl

By: Erika Robuck

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she'd thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning."



In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her... Read more

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El rey Hamlet ha muerto envenenado. En su lugar, asume su hermano, Claudio, y al poco tiempo se casa con la reina Gertrudis. Pero el príncipe Hamlet sospecha, y la aparición del fantasma de su padre le da la razón. En plan de vengarse, finge locura. ¿Pero hasta qué punto esa locura es fingida? ¿Cuánto de simulacro y cuánto de enfermedad hay en... Read more