Historical Fiction audiobooks

Burning Tower

By: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history.Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn't the only danger Tep's Town is facing. Monsters are coming forth from the... Read more

Die Tore des Himmels (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regentin, Rebellin, Heilige: wer war Elisabeth von Thüringen wirklich? Seit ihrer Kindheit ist die junge Adlige Gisa die Vertraute von Elisabeth, der Landgräfin von Thüringen. Sie weiß, wie zerrissen Elisabeth ist zwischen ihrer Liebe zum machtbewussten Landgrafen Ludwig und ihrer Suche nach einem gottgefälligen, einfachen Leben. Gisa erlebt,... Read more

Forbidden Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Fallon McLeod has gifts any
warrior would covet—fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality.
But those gifts have come at a price that puts everyone he loves at
risk. Only when his brother, Quinn, is taken captive does Fallon leave
the seclusion of his Highland home to seek the king's aid. And though
every woman at court would gladly... Read more

Das Geheimnis der Alchemistin - Abridged

By: Susann Rosemann

Narrated by: Petra Glunz Grosch

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heidelberg / Pfalz 1399: Matti wächst als Findelkind auf einer Burg im Pfälzer Wald auf. Ihre Ziehmutter, Josefa, ist eine entfernte Verwandte des Burgherrn. Sie hat damals als Hebamme das Mädchen entbunden, ohne genau zu wissen, wer die verzweifelte junge Frau eigentlich war, die Hilfe suchend auf die Burg gekommen war. Für ihre... Read more

Pictures at an Exhibition

By: Camilla Macpherson

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

'An enchanting debut' Woman's Own

November 1942

Dear Elizabeth,
I've got myself a new project, to cheer myself up a bit. It has absolutely nothing to do with the war effort. We're completely starved of art in London these days. Anything decent was stashed away by the authorities years ago.But the National Gallery is going to dust off one... Read more

Phantasmagoria

By: Madelynne Ellis

Narrated by: Roxy Isles

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Another wonderfully decadent piece of historical erotica featuring a very Gothic menage...

1800 - Three years after escaping to London with her bisexual lovers, Bella Rushdale wakes one morning to find their delicate ménage a trois about to shatter. Vaughan, Marquis of Pennerley has left abruptly and without any explanation.

Determined to reclaim... Read more

Hungry Tales

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead—including one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Calling DeathA nonviolent zombie story set in AppalachiaChokepointA semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to... Read more

Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

His extraordinary debut, Those across the River, was hailed as "genre-bending Southern horror" (California Literary Review) and "graceful [and] horrific" (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth.And Lucifer said, "Let us rise... Read more

Toby’s Room

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his... Read more

The Californios

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu—until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor... Read more

In Need of a Good Wife

By: Kelly O'Connor McNees

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping historical audio of 19th century America about a group of unforgettable women who seek to remake their destinies.
     After Clara Bixby is abandoned by her husband and fired from her job in a New York City tavern, she has nowhere to turn. Though the Civil War has ended, life remains uncertain, especially for single women. But when... Read more

Live by Night

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller.Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story... Read more

The Riders of High Rock

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Hopalong Cassidy rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left... Read more

Death and the Maiden

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but she's gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous... Read more

When Johnny Came Marching Home

By: William Heffernan

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath - vividly presented with Heffernan's meticulous historical research - three boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war's end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the... Read more

The Jewels of Paradise

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her bestselling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, one of contemporary crime fiction's most beloved characters. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first stand-alone novel. Caterina Pellegrini is a... Read more

The Uninvited Guests

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of... Read more

In Sunlight and in Shadow

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 29 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all?New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and... Read more

No Safe Harbor

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1897. She came to America searching for her brother. Instead all she's found is a web of danger. Cara Hamilton had thought her brother to be dead. Now, clutching his letter, she leaves Ireland for America, desperate to find him. Her search leads her to a houseful of curious strangers, and one man who claims to be a friend — Rourke... Read more

Face of the Enemy

By: Joanne Dobson & Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms in to arrest her patient’s wife. The desperately ill Professor Oakley is... Read more

The Witch Hunter

By: Bernard Knight

Narrated by: Paul Matthews

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Exeter, 1195. When a prominent burgess and guild-master falls dead across his horse, Crowner John declines to hold an inquest as the man had been complaining of chest pains and shows no signs of injury.
Events take a sinister turn, however, when a straw-doll is discovered hidden under the man's saddle, a spike driven through its heart... Read more

Deborah Goes to Dover

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who continue to test her expert matchmaking skills.Destined for Dover,... Read more

Yvonne Goes to York

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who continue to test her expert matchmaking skills.The shy Miss Yvonne... Read more

A Love Surrendered

By: Julie Lessman

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned in Iowa, Annie Kennedy has moved to Boston and is embracing the city life, with a new name and a wide-open future. When she gets involved with a fast crowd at Ocean Pier — one that includes the handsome Steven O’Connor — she is pulled deeper and deeper into a world of rule breakers and mischief makers. She finds herself drawn to Steven... Read more