Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Trip to Jerusalem - Nicholas Bracewell - The Dramatic Elizabethan Whodunnit, book 3 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For Lord Westfield's Men, every high road leads to death. When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London's theatres, the acclaimed troupe of players called Lord Westfield's Men take to the high road to seek out fresh audiences. But wherever they go, they are thwarted by misfortune, and are baffled by mysteries.... Read more

The Revenge of Moriarty

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds to annihilate his enemies. He murders the leaders of Europe's underworld one by one, then prepares his most hideous revenge for his arch-enemy, Sherlock Holmes. Will he succeed in this most terrible plan? In this vivid, suspenseful novel of London-underworld crime,... Read more

Deirdre and Desire

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he is clearly a lummox—languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. But he stands to inherit a vast fortune, and that's good enough for Deirdre's father, a spendthrift vicar who arranges the match to rescue himself from imminent financial collapse.Leave it... Read more

Daphne

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Daphne, the fourth daughter of the Reverend Charles Armitage, is beautiful—dazzlingly beautiful—but she is utterly wrapped up in her own appearance. It seems fitting when she decides to marry the exquisite Cyril Archer, who is as empty-headed and vain as she is; after all, once she is safely married, she can hide her true nature behind her... Read more

The Blue Falcon

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In love and war, some oaths are meant to be broken....Riding into the arena under the furling blazon of the blue falcon, Sir Conan de Corbney accepts a token from the young beauty, Lady Chandra, sparking a romance foretold long ago.That is, unless Conan’s mother can help it.Colluding with her son’s rival, Sir Tedric, Lady Udele secretly arranges... Read more

By Right of Arms

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Prince of England hungers to capture the lands of France, and Sir Hyatt Laidley is just the knight for the task. In exchange for years of faithful service, Hyatt will receive both land—and lady—of De La Noye in Acquitane.When Hyatt and his men attack, both lord and castle fall, but the young and newly widowed Aurelie is not so easily... Read more

The Everlasting Covenant

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Gifford’s dowry—or lack thereof—is of no concern to Sir Dylan DeFrayne. Wrapped in each other’s arms, what more could they possibly need? Yet the young lovers’ passion can never be sanctioned—the DeFraynes and Giffords have been sworn enemies for decades. Lest more blood be shed, the two must keep their affair a secret…and plot their... Read more

Baudolino

By: Umberto Eco

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention.

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a... Read more

Where the Wind Blows

By: Caroline Fyffe

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Where the Wind Blows, Book One of USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe’s award-winning western historical romance Prairie Hearts series.In the free and untamed Wild West, love might blossom in the most unexpected place…When the man from the orphanage mistakes Chase Logan for Jessie Strong’s husband, the least Chase can do is help Jessie... Read more

The Legend of Broken

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 35 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The eagerly anticipated next novel from the bestselling author of The Alienist is available from Simon & Schuster Audio unabridged on MP3 CD and as an audio download!

With the historical storytelling brilliance of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, the hugely bestselling author of The Alienist writes a bounding epic: The Legend of Broken... Read more

Where the Ground Meets the Sky

By: Jacqueline Davies

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1944, and war is raging in Europe and the Pacific. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Hazel is fighting her own battles somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Life has gotten increasingly complicated and lonely since Dad brought Mom and her to live on the Hill, an ugly place surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. A brilliant physicist, he... Read more

Ask For It

By: Sylvia Day

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing incites Marcus more than the primal hunger roused by his former fiancée, Elizabeth. It’s been years since she jilted him for another man, but that only means there’s a lot to catch up on, a lot to make up for, and that he’s going to enjoy every sweet moment.…The same drive and passion that sent her into another man’s arms is what brings... Read more

Target Lancer

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive novel that uncovers new facts about the deadly conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Rigorously researched, Max Allan Collins's Target Lancer is far more truth than fiction. Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, "P.I. to the Stars," knows that a conspiracy is in the works. Several years earlier, Heller had been... Read more

A Death in the Small Hours

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of regularly investigating the crimes of Victorian London now some years behind him, he plans a trip to his uncle's estate in the expectation of a few calm weeks. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series... Read more

The Righteous Sisters

By: Various

Narrated by: Liza Sadovy & Susie Riddell

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of English sisters Louise and Ida Cook (better known as romantic novelist Mary Burchell), whose love of opera led them into a life of danger, rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Read more

Illuminations

By: Mary Sharratt

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

Offered to the Church at the age of eight, Hildegard was entombed in a small... Read more

Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter

By: J.A. Johnstone & William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Greatest Western Writers of the 21st Century reveal the untold story of Smoke Jensen’s long-lost brother in the first installment in their epic series featuring Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter. Left for dead during the fiercest war in our nation’s history, he’s risen from the ashes of the Civil War with a vengeance to forge his own legend in a... Read more

Last Train From Cuernavaca

By: Lucia St. Clair Robson

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucia St. Clair Robson won the Golden Spur Award with her nationally best-selling novel Ride the Wind. In Last Train from Cuernavaca, it's Christmastime in Mexico, 1913. Even as army officers and their wives enjoy the atmosphere at Grace Knight's beautiful old hotel, soldiers scour the countryside outside the city looking for rebels. There,... Read more

Gun Law

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

With millions of copies of his books in print, USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton is a contemporary giant in the Western genre. Blowing into Kindred, New Mexico, like a sandstorm, mercenary Sherman "The Teacher" Dahl quickly locates his prey and guns them down in a blazing firefight. But Dahl's troubles are only just beginning. The... Read more

To Seduce An Earl

By: Lori Brighton

Narrated by: Fiona Underwood

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Alex Weston has plied his trade at Lavender Hills, an all-male brothel catering to London’s most fashionable women. His beauty and sexual prowess are legendary, yet his charmed life masks an ugly truth. Alex is a prisoner in a gilded cage, blackmailed into service and desiring only freedom—until the night she walks through his... Read more

Flashman

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Read more

Flashman and the Dragon

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all. Read more

Flashman at the Charge

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
 
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly


The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the... Read more

Flash for Freedom!

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers. When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the... Read more