Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Broken Token

By: Chris Nickson

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Pickpockets, pimps and prostitutes: All in a day’s work for the city constable – until work moves too close to home… When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner, his professional and personal lives move perilously close. Circumstances seem to conspire against him, and... Read more

Highland Destiny

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When destiny brought Sir Balfour Murray and his wounded brother down the same road as Maldie Kirkaldy, she offered her services as a nurse even as she tried to deny the desire this dark-eyed knight had ignited at first sight. Soon they discover that they both share a mission of vengeance, but Maldie cannot tell him her true identity—to do so... Read more

The Chemistry of Tears

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Susan Lyons & Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Critics have used every possible superlative to praise the works of two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. In The Chemistry of Tears, Carey continues to astound with a story of love, death and human invention. Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the... Read more

The Queen's Promise

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Lyn Andrews comes a compelling historical epic set at the endlessly fascinating Tudor court about the most infamous woman of the age - Anne Boleyn - and the man who loved her before she became queen.

From the moment Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland, glimpses the beautiful Anne Boleyn he is captivated and quickly... Read more

Rote Sonne, schwarzes Land (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was ist die Macht des Clans gegen das Wagnis der Liebe?" 1917: Dr. Grace Treverton erreicht Kenia, das schwarze Land, entschlossen, den Eingeborenen die Segnungen der modernen Medizin zu bringen. Ihr Bruder, Lord Valentine, träumt von der Zukunft dieses britischen Protektorats: ein landwirtschaftliches Imperium, größer als jedes in der alten... Read more

Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Desperate to save her sister's life, Sidonie Forsythe has agreed to submit herself to a terrible fate: Beyond the foreboding walls of Castle Craven, a notorious, hideously scarred scoundrel will take her virtue over the course of seven sinful nights. Yet instead of a monster, she encounters a man like no other. And during this week, she comes to... Read more

Never Seduce a Scot

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn't speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her... Read more

Dodger

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller!Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London.Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a... Read more

You Are the Love of My Life

By: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her... Read more

An Outlaw's Christmas

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved #1 New York Timesbest-selling author Linda Lael Miller pens tales that sing with the soul of the American West. In An Outlaw's Christmas, Sawyer McKettrick leaves the family ranch to become a marshal in Blue River, Texas. En route, he's badly injured dur-ing a violent blizzard and ends up in the care of schoolteacher Piper St. James. As... Read more

The Lady Risks All

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 16 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Laurens’s books are always synonymous with sensuality and strong-willed heroes and heroines.”
—Fresh FictionThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae, romance fiction superstar Stephanie Laurens has done it again with this passionate tale of an oh-so-proper lady and the dangerous man for whom she throws... Read more

Dreamer

By: Mark Teppo

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.During the Fifth Crusade, the bloody siege of Damietta grinds to a stalemate and a young Christian soldier... Read more

Rules to Catch a Devilish Duke

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophia White knows she will never marry into polite society. The illegitimate daughter of a nobleman, she works at the Tantalus Club, a discreet establishment for gentlemen—and her only suitor is a pastor who wants to save her soul. So when Sophia is invited to spend the holidays at the estate of Adam Baswich, the devilishly handsome Duke of... Read more

The Mongoliad: Book Two

By: Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph B...

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting second installment in Stephenson and company’s epic tale focuses on the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most resilient survivors. The Shield Brethren, an order of warrior monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde, even as the invaders take its members... Read more

Becoming Clementine

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer 1944, Paris, a secret mission, a dangerous passion—a spellbinding story you will never forgetAfter delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down,... Read more

Dangerous Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

He is magnificently strong—and dangerously seductive. One of the fiercest of his clan, Lucan MacLeod is a legend among warriors, inspiring fear in man and woman alike. For three hundred years, he has locked himself away from the world, hiding the vengeful god imprisoned in his soul. But then, a young lass caught in a raging storm awakens his... Read more

San Miguel

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island

On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary... Read more

The Madonnas of Leningrad

By: Debra Dean

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn... Read more

Beautiful Lies

By: Clare Clark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel's choices are not so simple. As her husband's career hangs by... Read more

The Cutting Season

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”
—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchAttica Locke’s breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won resounding acclaim from major... Read more

The Lincoln Conspiracy

By: Timothy L. O'Brien

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A nation shattered by its president’s murder
Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy
A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him
 
From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O’Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a provocative question: What if the plot to assassinate... Read more

Winter of the World

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 31 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World... Read more

The Life of Objects

By: Susanna Moore

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This elegant, haunting novel from the award-winning author of In The Cut and The Whiteness of Bones, set in Germany on the eve of the Second World War, is the story of one woman’s journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness.Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale, whisked... Read more

The Incense Game

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime. When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found... Read more