Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: [Spanish] - Félix de Lusitania

Series: #2 of Félix de Lusitania

Author: Jesús Sánchez Adalid

Narrator: Enrique Cuervas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 7, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Este audiolibro, continuación de 'La Luz del Oriente', recoge las vivencias de Félix, un hispano-lusitano en el siglo III. A lo largo de la narración nos encontramos envueltos en el anárquico periodo del primer milenio del Imperio Romano, cuando la presión de los bárbaros comienza a resquebrajar los limes y los emperadores se sucedían vertiginosamente unos a otros. En el año 248, Roma se prepara para celebrar el gran esplendor milenario de su fundación, tras haber conseguido establecer la paz con los persas de Oriente merced a la hábil gestión de los embajadores imperiales. Uno de estos emisarios es Félix de Lusitania, que regresa de su misión en Tesifonte después de haber arrostrado todo tipo de peligros. La inquietud vital de Félix le lleva a ser protagonista en un momento crucial de la historia: el declive del Imperio Romano.

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Title: [Spanish] - El secreto del peregrino

Author: Peter Harris

Narrator: Raúl García Arrondo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Release date: December 30, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Hay secretos que solo se descubren paso a paso... página a página. Una apasionante aventura de intriga ambientada en la Edad Media, con París, Venecia y el camino de Santiago como grandes escenarios. La historia de un escribano que se convertirá en peregrino para llevar a cabo una peligrosa misión: descifrar los misterios de la alquimia ocultos en el Livro de Abraham el Judío. Un secreto por el que llegará hasta el fin del mundo.

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Title: The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries: Four BBC historical crime comedies

Author: Ged Parsons

Narrator: Paul Brooke, Dominic Jephcott, Peter Serafinowicz, Hugh Dennis, Roy Hudd, Full Cast, Hugh Bonneville, Bill Wallis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Release date: December 29, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Christopher Marlowe turns government spy in these four comedy crime dramas Murder and intrigue are all in a day's work for Kit Marlowe, England's leading playwright and undercover agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. Amid the squalor and splendour of Elizabethan London, he probes a series of baffling mysteries, aided by his trusty underworld accomplice Bartholomew Ratsbane. The Curious Case of the Curs'd Quayside - Two of the navy's finest warships have been mysteriously sunk while moored in harbour. Sent by spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham to investigate, can Marlowe find the saboteur before more ships are scuppered? The Turbulent Tale of the Troubl'd Tragedy - Spring, 1590, and the keen-witted spy is faced with two tricky cases. Who has stolen Mighty Meg from the Tower, and why has an unknown patron funded the worst play ever written? The Perplex'd Plot of the Perilous Plague - Fleeing the epidemic that is ravaging London, Christopher Marlowe takes refuge with Walsingham at the Palace of Whitehall. But it seems the plague has followed them to the very heart of government... The Murky Mystery of Murder at St Marks - When an eminent professor receives a death threat, Marlowe sets off to his Cambridge college to make enquiries. But no sooner has he arrived than the dons start dropping like flies. Can the murderer at large be outwitted? Dominic Jephcott stars as Marlowe in these light-hearted comic mysteries, with Bill Wallis as Ratsbane, Paul Brooke as Sir Francis Walsingham and guest appearances from Roy Hudd, Hugh Bonneville (credited as Richard Bonneville), Peter Serafinowicz and Hugh Dennis. Written by Ged Parsons Produced and directed by Richard Wilson Cast Marlowe - Dominic Jephcott Bartholomew Ratsbane - Bill Wallis Sir Francis Walsingham - Paul Brooke Admiral Downing/Beaumont - Garard Green Captain Curtis/Dr Heywood - Brian Bowles Captain Barnaby - Julian Dutton Ned Peake - Roy Hudd Fortescue - Simon Godley Trump - Lionel Jeffries Squires - Daniel Strauss Gloriana Nonsuch - Victoria Carling Faversham - Ronald Herdman Ripley - Richard Bonneville Dr Valentine - Hugh Dennis Dr Darras - Peter Serafinowitz Sir Hubert Sharpe - Gordon Reid Mistress Parker - Sarah Thomas First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 9-30 December 1993 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: Smoke & Cracked Mirrors

Series: #1 of York Detective Ladies' Agency Mysteries

Author: Karen Charlton

Narrator: Corrie James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Release date: December 27, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

York, England: 1940 'An unsuitable job for a woman . . . ' When her husband goes 'missing in action,' Jemma James returns to the city of her birth to set up a private detective agency with her best friend, Roberta 'Bobbie' Baker, with whom she shares a passionate love of Golden Age crime fiction. These two enterprising young women soon find themselves embroiled in a series of mysterious cases, shadowing blackmailers and bigamists, and investigating the perplexing history of a wealthy young woman who seems determined to wipe out her past. And it's not long before they stumble across an unsolved murder. But the dead don't stay dead for long in historic York. As the 'phoney war' draws to a close, and the sky above the soaring twin towers of the twelfth century Minster darkens with menace, Jemma learns that even she is not above suspicion in wartime Britain.

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Title: Almost Home: A Novel

Author: Pam Jenoff

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Diplomat’s Wife A thrilling novel of suspense about a woman who must face a past she’d rather forget in order to uncover a dangerous legacy that threatens her future. Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss’s idyllic experience as a graduate student at Cambridge was shattered when her boyfriend Jared drowned in the River Cam. She swore she’d never go back—until a terminally ill friend asks her to return. Jordan attempts to settle into her new life, taking on an urgent mission beside rakish agent Sebastian Hodges. Just when she thinks there’s hope for a fresh start, a former college classmate tells her that Jared’s death was not an accident—he was murdered. Jordan quickly learns that Jared’s research into World War II had uncovered a shameful secret, but powerful forces with everything to lose will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. Soon, Jordan finds herself in grave peril as she struggles to find the answers that lie treacherously close to home, the truth that threatens to change her life forever, and the love that makes it all worth fighting for. Fast-paced and impossible to put down, Almost Home establishes Pam Jenoff as one of the best new writers in the genre.

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Title: The Adventurers

Series: #9 of The Australians

Author: Vivian Stuart

Narrator: Simon Slater

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

THEY FLED AN OLD WORLD RAVAGED BY WAR AND HEARTBREAK TO SEIZE THEIR HEARTS' DESIRES IN THE NEW... The ninth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams. Justin Broome, the son of two of the most legendary prisoners in New South Wales, learns that skill and courage do not stand a chance against prejudice. Bitterness and disappointment are mixed with the wear and tear of his everyday life; all the while shiploads of miserable prisoners and free settlers continue to arrive from a war-weary England. Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

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Title: [German] - Die Seefahrer

Series: #10 of Australien-Saga

Author: Vivian Stuart

Narrator: Frank Stieren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Release date: December 14, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Das Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts rückt näher. Große Schiffe fahren von Australien aus über die Weltmeere: Handelsschiffe und Kriegsschiffe mit Männern, die den ersten Siedlern an Mut und Leidenschaft nicht nachstehen. Familien wie die Broomes lassen Australien an Macht und Glanz gewinnen und wagen ehrgeizige Blicke in eine große Zukunft.

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Title: The Dilemma

Author: Sarah Hawthorn

Narrator: Ella Lynch, Emma Fenney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Release date: December 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1958. Esme, a novelist, finds a potential new literary project. A housemaid named Clara was convicted of murder, perhaps unjustly, amid the ending of World War II and the liberation of Guernsey from Nazi occupation. Esme’s trip to Guernsey is an opportunity not only to research the case but also to learn more about her mother’s family—as well as to heal from the heartbreak inflicted on her by the man she loved... 1915. A teenager marries her childhood sweetheart before he heads off to fight in the Great War. But he doesn’t come back, and Jane, presumed a widow, flees Guernsey—devastated by her loss. In London, Jane finds a new life and a new husband—but her past isn’t done with her yet. This absorbing novel follows the parallel paths of two generations of women, and as each is faced with painful decisions and shocking discoveries, a question emerges: Can a lie be forgiven when the truth seems too much to bear?

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Title: [Spanish] - La traductora

Author: Goretti Irisarri, José Gil Romero

Narrator: Ana Viñuela

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: December 9, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Octubre de 1940. El general Francisco Franco planea dirigirse en tren hasta Hendaya, donde se reunirá con Adolf Hitler. Elsa Braumann es una joven traductora de libros alemanes que subsiste en el Madrid de 1940 al cuidado de su hermana. Una noche, en la Capitanía de Madrid se requiere a Elsa para una misión de carácter secreto y que está relacionada con el encuentro entre Franco y Hitler. A lo largo de los siguientes días, Elsa comienza a intimar con el capitán Bernal, jefe de seguridad de la operación, hombre cultivado y amante del cine, como ella. Pero alguien amenaza a Elsa para involucrarla en una operación de contraespionaje: dispondrá de tres minutos para robar ciertos documentos a Franco en el tren que les llevará hasta Hendaya. El devenir de la Segunda Guerra Mundial está ahora en las frágiles manos de Elsa Braumann, esas que están a punto de traicionar al hombre de quien se está enamorando.

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Title: The Missing Wife

Author: Kerry Barrett

Narrator: Sofia Engstrand, Rose Robinson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Release date: December 8, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

‘I just loved everything about this book… Ticked all the boxes for the perfect read.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1933. Hannah Snow is fleeing her unhappy marriage when she finds herself in a small hotel on the banks of Loch Ness. But when a monster is spotted in the depths of the waters, the press descends – and Hannah finds her hiding place is discovered. Someone has been looking for Hannah, and when they find her events will take a devastating turn… Present day. True crime podcaster Scarlett finds herself intrigued by the mystery of Hannah Snow, wife of a promising government minister who disappeared in 1933 – just months before her husband also went missing, presumed dead. As Scarlett works to uncover the truth, she discovers a tragic family secret, and a story as murky as the depths of the loch where Hannah and her husband were last seen… From the bestselling author of The Book of Last Letters, get transported to Scotland in The Missing Wife, a gripping and emotional dual timeline historical novel, perfect for fans of Lorna Cook and Dinah Jeffries. Readers LOVE The Missing Wife! ‘I absolutely loved this book… An enthralling story that kept you guessing… An unexpected gem.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What a great book! I’ve finished it in 2 days, absolutely loved every bit of it… Beautifully written and so easy to read. I’m off to find some more from this author!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I read this in less than a day… A brilliant read, uplifting and just a great story.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Enthralling and absorbing and I loved it. Definitely recommend.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I really enjoyed this book… Gripping story, well written and researched. Highly recommended.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A pleasure to read and incredibly engaging… Undoubtedly a “just one more chapter” type of book… Quite possibly my most favourite book of 2022.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Kept me up way past my bedtime as I needed to know what happened… Definitely recommended for those who enjoy a mystery.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Great fun. Tragedy, romance, and history all mixed up together… Fast paced and very absorbing.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐