Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lines in the Sand

By: Anne Deveson

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1975, at the age of 20, Hannah Coady thinks she can change the world. Fiery and idealistic, she proves her mettle as a journalist in the terrible famine in Ethiopia, and is changed forever by the experience. But it's not just the starvation and the politics that change her, it's the beginning of a great love for two remarkable men: Waldo, a... Read more

The Fear

By: Tom Keneally

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Next door to us, crowded on the east and west by large houses, was the Mantles' narrow little brick place. It seemed to be subsiding crookedly into the earth like an ill-laid tombstone, and was a sunless warren, dim humidity in summer, dim moisture in winter. The laneway to its back door ran flush against our side wall, and beneath the Mantles'... Read more

Emil and Karl

By: Yankev Glatshteyn

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Vienna, 1938. Two boys, one Jewish, one not, fend for themselves after their parents are taken away by the Nazis. Emil and Karl, best friends, are brave and loyal in a world of persecution and cruelty. The Holocaust has recently been rediscovered by children's authors as a new generation of young people, growing up at an ever greater distance... Read more

The Angel's Cut

By: Elizabeth Knox

Narrated by: Edwina Wren

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart, and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand... Read more

The Jericho Files

By: Alan Gold

Narrated by: Stanley McGeagh

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One small, yellowed photograph of a man on horseback. Old files from Stalin's time, mouldering in the Kremlin archives. An Israeli Prime Minister who seems determined to throw his people into further war. A trail of murder and terrorism across Australia, the Middle East and Europe... Whoever holds the photograph holds the key to unlock many... Read more

Islands of Gold

By: Grant Hyde

Narrated by: Alan King

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Wilbur Smith and Patrick O'Brian comes the next sensational South Seas adventure. The year is 1796, and three and a half years have passed since Captain Lightfoot and his crew helped restore justice and peace to Tonga. It is time for them to return to their colony in New Holland, and then on to Mother England. But fate... Read more

Chain of Hearts

By: Maureen McCarthy

Narrated by: Lucy Taylor

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

At 17 Sophie is a mess. Her best friend is dead and her boyfriend has gone. She's dropped out of school, sleeps through the day, eats all night and refuses to see anyone. Her family has had enough. They're dumping her on an aunt she doesn't know in a country town where she'll be a complete stranger. But Sophie is about to embark on the strangest... Read more

The Third Day, the Frost

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

What's the biggest danger you can think of? This is bigger. What's the toughest challenge you can imagine? This is tougher. What's the greatest fear you have? You're about to find out. They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now it's winter. They're... Read more

Raisins and Almonds

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams Phryne picks her way through... Read more

The Gulf Conspiracy

By: Ken McClure

Narrated by: John Keogh

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Saudi Arabia, 1991. Troops are in a state of high alert. The chemical warfare detectors have sounded and the soldiers scramble into their protective suits. In terse silence, they remind themselves of the vaccinations which will protect them. Then the all-clear sounds, and the troops rejoice that they are unharmed – or so they think. England,... Read more

Sylvia

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Edwina Wren

Length: 19 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Children's Crusade and then later the Crusades. Read more

Stars Across the Ocean

By: Kimberley Freeman

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

1874: Only days before she is to leave the foundling home where she grew up, Agnes Resolute discovers that, as a baby, she had been abandoned with a small token of her mother: a unicorn button. Agnes always believed her mother had been too poor to keep her, but after working as a laundress in the home she recognises the button as belonging to... Read more

Rose Under Fire

By: Elizabeth Wein

Narrated by: Sasha Pick

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rose Justice is a young pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On her way back from a semi-secret flight in the waning days of the war, Rose is captured by the Germans and ends up in Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi women's concentration camp. There, she meets an unforgettable group of women, including a once... Read more

Thursday's Child

By: Sonya Hartnett

Narrated by: Melissa Eccleston

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely... Read more

This Red Earth

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Aaron Tsindos & Jessica St.Clair

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

It's November 1939, another war in Europe. And Bernie Cooper is wondering what's ahead for her. She knows Gordon Brock is going to ask her to marry him – any second now. An honest country boy about to graduate from university as a geologist, he's a good catch by anyone's standards, too. And she's going to say no. The harsh realities of this... Read more

Precious Things

By: Kelly Doust

Narrated by: Melanie Hudson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Normandy, France, 1891: a young woman painstakingly sews an intricate beaded collar to her wedding dress, the night before her marriage to someone she barely knows. Yet Aimee longs for so much more ... Shanghai, 1926: dancing sensation and wild child Zephyr spies what looks like a beaded headpiece lying carelessly discarded on a ballroom floor.... Read more

The Blue Mile

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Zoe Ellerton-Ashley & James Harvy

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The week before Christmas, 1929, Eoghan O'Keenan loses his factory job, and has to flee the slums of Chippendale with his seven-year-old sister Agnes. On the north side of Sydney at Lavender Bay, Olivia Greene is working on her latest millinery creations and dreaming of becoming the next Coco Chanel. A job on the Harbour Bridge for Eoghan,... Read more

Śmierć w Żelazowej Woli

By: Tomasz Sobieraj

Narrated by: Tomasz Sobczak

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Są tacy, którzy dla muzyki gotowi są zabić. Na terenie parku-muzeum w Żelazowej Woli dochodzi do zbrodni. Podczas codziennego obchodu terenu ochroniarz Emil Marchewka znajduje ciało młodego pianisty, który tego dnia koncertował w dworku Chopinów. Zmarły trzyma w ręku kartkę z tajemniczym szyfrem. Aspirant Ireneusz Fatalny wraz ze swoim... Read more

The Inca's Curse

By: Ellen Read

Narrated by: Sarah Kennedy

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 1928 in Victoria, Australia. The Thornton family made its money in the goldfields during the 1850s and the antiques trade. Their principal home is Thornton Park, a lavish mansion close to Melbourne. They also own a home and a goldmine in Daylesford, where their close friends, the Bassetti family, are part of a thriving Swiss-Italian... Read more

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Lopez Mickaël

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 intriguing short stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson, penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These tales mark the final adventures of Holmes, showcasing his sharp intellect and unique methods of deduction. The collection includes famous... Read more

Once He Made a Beginning

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Andy Robert

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Every Ending, a Promising Prelude to a Beautiful New Beginning."After his failed proposal at Hunsford, Fitzwilliam Darcy suffers a devastating accident that alters the course of his future. Overwhelmed with concern, unresolved feelings, and self-blame, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself compelled to stay by his side throughout his recovery. Is this... Read more

One Crowded Hour

By: David Larson

Narrated by: David Pappas

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

William Benet Sterling and his best friend Jacob (Jake) Brown, two Kansas farm boys, realize their dream of riding with the famed seventh cavalry joining the unit at Fort Abraham Lincoln. The two teenagers gallop headlong into battle with Major Reno and A company as they mount a breath-taking charge against the Sioux and Cheyenne village along... Read more

For All Time

By: Marian L Jasper

Narrated by: Marian L Jasper

Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Would the actions of someone born two hundred years ago affect the lives of those today? Writer Ellie Fuller was about to find out as she sifted through the journals, letters and keepsakes of Liza Marchant, who had been a close friend and business associate of the Fuller family; and as she wrote about her, Ellie began to sense all the magic of... Read more

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Oliver Thompson

Length: 64 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the world of detective genius with The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, an extensive audiobook compilation featuring all four full-length Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. This comprehensive collection... Read more