- Biographical (2,139)
- Mystery (4,724)
Most Popular
-
Still Life
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....
-
-
Meraviglioso! - simply wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-2021
-
Where the Sky Begins
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Emma Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’ world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go....
-
-
A great story
- By Dudley on 08-08-2022
-
The Rose Code
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes....
-
-
A good story
- By Kitty on 03-09-2021
-
The Light After the War
- By: Anita Abriel
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by the true story of one woman's extraordinary journey to forge a new life after escaping a train bound for Auschwitz....
-
-
This Author Definately Has Potential
- By HR on 13-08-2020
-
Still Life
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....
-
-
Meraviglioso! - simply wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-2021
-
Where the Sky Begins
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Emma Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’ world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go....
-
-
A great story
- By Dudley on 08-08-2022
-
The Rose Code
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes....
-
-
A good story
- By Kitty on 03-09-2021
-
The Light After the War
- By: Anita Abriel
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by the true story of one woman's extraordinary journey to forge a new life after escaping a train bound for Auschwitz....
-
-
This Author Definately Has Potential
- By HR on 13-08-2020
-
All Our Shimmering Skies
- By: Trent Dalton
- Narrated by: Ruby Rees
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance. She carries a stone heart inside a duffel bag next to the map that leads to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family....
-
-
Got to Chapter 20, Couldn’t finish
- By Jen W. on 08-10-2020
-
The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two sisters. One must be brave. One should be afraid. Bravery, courage, fear, and love in a time of war....
-
-
Loved it
- By Ness on 10-09-2015
-
Secrets My Father Kept
- By: Rachel Givney
- Narrated by: Zoe Carides
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's February 1939. As the Fuhrer edges towards an invasion of Poland, total war looms in Europe....
-
-
Absolutely wonderful!
- By G from OZ on 23-01-2022
-
The Diamond Eye
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son - until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the Führer’s destruction....
-
-
Can’t stop listening
- By Amazon Customer on 24-07-2022
-
The German Wife
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Inspired by real events, the New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with an unputdownable novel of a community torn apart when a former Nazi family moves into town to work on NASA's space programme....
-
-
Loved this book
- By Amy Langtry on 11-07-2022
-
Dancing with the Enemy
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Brennan
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the best-selling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II....
-
-
excellent
- By Tex on 19-06-2022
-
The School for German Brides
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth....
-
Great Circle
- By: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger....
-
-
I need time to process this amazing book
- By Megan Gardiner on 10-08-2021
-
Lana's War
- By: Anita Abriel
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the best-selling author of The Light After the War comes the unforgettable story of a young woman waging her own war against the Nazis as a spy for the Resistance on the French Riviera....
-
-
An ok story
- By Amazon Customer on 14-07-2021
-
The Riviera House
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Paris, 1939. While working at the Louvre, Éliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis occupy the city, Xavier leaves for England and Éliane must send her sisters to the country....
-
-
Enjoyable listening
- By Lee on 03-11-2021
-
Three Sisters
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Book 3
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When they are girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - that they will stay together, no matter what....
-
-
powerful and moving
- By Anonymous User on 01-11-2021
-
The House at Mermaid's Cove
- By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat....
-
-
Enjoyable Historical Fiction
- By Mari on 19-03-2021
-
The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
-
-
Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
-
The Tuscan House
- By: Angela Petch
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Corbello, Italy, 1947. A woman and a little boy stagger into the ruins of an old house deep in the forest, wild roses overwhelming the crumbling terracotta walls. Since the war, nowhere has been safe. But they both freeze in shock when a voice calls out from the shadows.
-
The Little Wartime Library
- By: Kate Thompson
- Narrated by: Sarah Durham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on true events, The Little Wartime Library is an inspiring and heart-wrenching story of life on the home front, and of the strength of courage required to fight for what you believe in....
-
-
Excellent historical WWII
- By Anonymous User on 29-03-2022
-
The Italian Girl
- By: Anita Abriel
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Rome, 1943: Marina Tozzi adores her father Vittorio and working together in his art gallery is her only escape from the reality of the Nazi occupation. Not only has Marina inherited her father’s passion for art but she is earning a reputation as an expert in her own right....
-
A Mother's Journey
- By: Donna Douglas
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hull, 1940. Widowed Edie Copeland has just arrived on Exchange Street, heavily pregnant and with heavy suitcase in tow....
-
The Paris Seamstress
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Anthea Greco
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
1940. Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine and a dream: to have her own atelier....
-
-
Mesmerising
- By Jennie McKern on 04-06-2018
-
Corporal Hitler’s Pistol
- By: Tom Keneally
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Set in a town and community he knows very well, Tom Keneally tells a compelling story of the interactions and relationships between Black and white Australians in early 20th-century Australia....
-
-
Good as an Audiobook
- By Jenny on 13-07-2022
-
The Girls in Blue
- The Girls in Blue, Book 3
- By: Fenella J. Miller
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force....
-
-
Girls in Blue
- By Sharon F on 26-12-2021
-
Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption....
-
-
loved it!
- By Kindle Customer on 03-08-2022
-
The Girl in the Striped Dress
- A completely heartbreaking and gripping World War 2 novel, based on a true story
- By: Ellie Midwood
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Auschwitz, 1942: This unforgettable novel, based on a true story, brings to life history’s most powerful tale of forbidden love. Set within the barbed wire of Auschwitz, a man and a woman fall in love against unimaginable odds....
-
The Last Restaurant in Paris
- By: Lily Graham
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Paris, 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy....
-
The German Girl
- A Heart-Wrenching and Unforgettable World War 2 Historical Novel
- By: Lily Graham
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hamburg, 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother, Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense - synagogues have been smashed with sledgehammers, and Asta is too frightened to laugh as she used to....