Historical Fiction audiobooks

Beekeeping for Beginners

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling, award-winning author Laurie R. King's tales featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell are among the most popular mysteries being published. Here, King explores the great detective's initial meeting with Russell. Holmes is in a decidedly dark temper as he searches the countryside for wild bees, until he meets the headstrong young... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Here is one of the stories penned by America’s favorite Western author with its text restored to the state of its initial publication in the magazine West in 1950.It starts out... Read more

Sacrilege

By: S.J. Parris

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century England and centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury Cathedral.
 
London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. He is shocked to discover... Read more

The Book of Madness and Cures

By: Regina O'Melveny

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in... Read more

Unholy Night

By: Seth Grahame-Smith

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Unholy Night, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism.

They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing... Read more

The House of Velvet and Glass

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Heather Corrigan

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of... Read more

Flying Blind

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, Nate Heller is hired to escort Amelia Earhart on a speaking tour due to numerous cut-and-paste death threats against her life. Heller suspects the threats are a stunt by Earhart’s publicity-hungry husband, and the detective’s growing closeness to the bisexual aviatrix leads to a steamy affair. Two years later, when Earhart embarks on... Read more

Highland Vow

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, young Elspeth Murray rescued a wounded knight and lost her heart forever. Now a stunning beauty and gifted healer, she is reunited with Cormac Armstrong when he saves her from an unwanted suitor. But Cormac is promised to another, a woman who has blinded him to her ruthlessness. Now Elspeth must battle against the odds to claim a... Read more

A Bride Unveiled

By: Jillian Hunter

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship—until, slowly, her innocent trust opens a door to a world he's never known . . . a world in which Kit can break off the shackles of his shameful... Read more

The Victory

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England, with only Nelson's weather-beaten ships in his way, but the French fleet are not the only threat to the fortunes of the Morland family.

In the North of England, Mary Ann's relationship with the missionary, Father Rathbone, introduces her to the stark realities of life in plague-torn Manchester. In the... Read more

The Tangled Thread

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

1788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.

Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his mistress, Marie-France, and their son Morland. To this end, he binds Heloise to a loveless marriage with a Revolutionary, and allies himself with the great... Read more

The Emperor

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe and touches each member of the far-flung Morland family.
As the century draws to a close, Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end, but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann in closer... Read more

The Blue Max

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The most coveted combat decoration in all Germany, the Blue Max was a symbol of power, fame, and prestige beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max, the most coveted... Read more

The Irish Healer

By: Nancy Herriman

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

1830s London is rich with promise. And fraught with peril. Rachel Dunne and James Edmunds are about to discover that love is too. Rachel Dunne has always been a healer... until she’s accused of causing the death of a child under her care. Acquitted but shunned, she flees Ireland in search of a new life, convinced that she’ll be fine so long as... Read more

Your Wicked Ways

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides it's time for a change -- she styles her hair in the newest, daring mode, puts on a shockingly... Read more

Mr. Churchill's Secretary

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

BARRY AWARD WINNER • Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.

“With any luck, the adventures of red-haired super-sleuth Maggie Hope will go on forever. . . . Taut, well-plotted, and suspenseful, this is a wartime... Read more

Heart of Glass

By: Jill Marie Landis

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Keene’s childhood memories compel her to take her newly-acquired architectural skills to a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. But when she returns to the Reconstruction-era South, she’s shocked to discover the man she’s dreamed of for so long has become a bitter, angry recluse. Colin Delany, the handsome older brother of her best friend, has... Read more

The Lifeboat

By: Charlotte Rogan

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.

In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside... Read more

Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark

By: Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, author Tilly Bagshawe takes up the mantle of the late, great Sidney Sheldon—and again, she succeeds magnificently. Written in the inimitable Sheldon style and based on extensive, never before published material from his private archives, Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark is a thrilling tale of murder, lies, and lust that the master... Read more

Sacre Bleu

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.”
—Carl Hiassen“[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.”
—Washington Post“If there’s a funnier writer out there, step forward.”
—PlayboyAbsolutely nothing is sacred to Christopher... Read more

Eyes of Justice

By: Lis Wiehl & April Henry

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When One of the Triple Threat Is Murdered, All Eyes Turn to Justice.Cassidy, Allison, and Nicole fight for justice everyday—Cassidy as a crime reporter, Nicole as an FBI agent, and Allison as a federal prosecutor. Together they’re a Triple Threat to be reckoned with. A force that, together, has solved the toughest mysteries.Until a ruthless... Read more

The Quality of Mercy

By: Barry Unsworth

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship, including... Read more

The Fair Miss Fortune

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Fortune causes a stir when she arrives in the small community of Dingleford. She has bought an old cottage and plans to open a tearoom. Old friends Charles Weatherby and Harold Prestcott both fall for the newcomer, but her behaviour seems to vary wildly – she encourages first one then the other and at other times barely recognises them. Is... Read more

Derby Day

By: D. J. Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all of England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day.... Read more