Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Shop Girls Get the Vote

By: Rachel Brimble

Narrated by: Willow Nash

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An inspiring and gripping saga series, perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke, Pam Howes and Dilly Court!1911, Bath, England – Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury has been banished from her home for her views. So ever since, she’s worked as a window dresser in Pennington's Department Store, where she’s proud to have a job and to earn her... Read more

The Man from Bere

By: Andrew Wareham

Narrated by: Paul Fox

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Turnhouse is a Dorset farmhand, a third son with nothing to inherit and no future, working his father's land for his keep. He is also tall, powerfully built, and handsome, and crosses the path of Squire's impressionable daughter.



Nick has to run, fast, with ten shillings and his father's blessing. Luckily, or so he thinks, he comes across a... Read more

My Lady, Will You Dance?

By: Sofi Laporte

Narrated by: Ella Lynch

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A Lost Love. A Cold Marquess. A Fateful Christmas Country House Party… Mirabel’s dreams are shattered when her bridegroom vanishes without a trace from her little village in Cornwall. With a determined heart, she embarks on a journey to London to find him, only to find herself in humble service in a noble household. As time passes, the memory of... Read more

The Battling Prophet

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Wickham, a famous meteorologist whose uncannily accurate forecasts have helped famers and graziers all over Australia, has died after a three-week drinking bout. The doctor certifies that his death was cause by heart failure, due to alcoholic poisoning. But Ben's neighbour and drinking partner, John Luton, is convinced his friends didn't... Read more

Sapphire Skies

By: Belinda Alexandra

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia's Ukrainian border. The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and pin-up girl for Soviet propaganda, but the question of her fate remains unanswered. Was she a German spy who faked her own death, as the Kremlin claims?  Her lover, Valentin... Read more

Tulip Fever

By: Deborah Moggach

Narrated by: Rula Lenska

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia’s husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion... Read more

Edge of the Rain

By: Beverley Harper

Narrated by: Jerome Pride

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The blood scent was fresh. Hunger ached in her belly. The lioness slid forward as close as she dared. The little boy seconds away from death was two, maybe three years old. He was lost in the vast, heat-soaked sand that was the Kalahari desert... Toddler Alex Theron is miraculously rescued by a passing clan of Kalahari bushmen. Over the ensuing... Read more

The Widows of Broome

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Broome is a small, sun-drenched town on the barren northwest coast of Australia. It's small enough that everyone knows everyone else's business. How, then, did someone murder two widows in similar fashion and not leave any clues? It's a case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, who arrives on the scene incognito. He's barely begun his... Read more

The Secret River

By: Kate Grenville

Narrated by: Paul Blackwell

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight years later Thornhill sails up the... Read more

The Power of One

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower & Bryce Courtenay

Length: 21 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

First with your head and then with your heart... So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a 7-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to... Read more

The Infinite Air

By: Fiona Kidman

Narrated by: Heather Bolton

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn't get enough of her; and yet she suddenly slipped out of view, disappearing to the Caribbean with her mother and dying in obscurity in Majorca, buried in a pauper's grave. Fiona... Read more

The Mountains Have a Secret

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead. Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel's unsavoury proprietor. The resulting encounter propels Bony... Read more

Black Dove, White Raven

By: Elizabeth Wein

Narrated by: Lauren Saunders & Maanuv Thiara

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Emilia and Teo's lives changed in a fiery, terrifying instant when a bird strike brought down the plane their stunt pilot mothers were flying. Teo's mother died immediately, but Em's survived, determined to raise Teo according to his late mother's wishes – in a place where he won't be discriminated against because of the colour of his skin. But... Read more

South of Darkness

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Paul English

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s. Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is a precarious business. When he hears of a paradise on the other side of the world – a place called Botany Bay – he... Read more

A Midsummer Wedding

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Anya Virtual Voice

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

YOU ARE FORMALLY INVITED TO THE HIGHLAND WEDDING EVENT OF THE YEAR! Their marriage was two decades in the making. Elizabeth Hay is young, educated, and has her own ideas about her life. Alexander Macpherson is a Highlander and a pirate and not about to be tied down to some delicate court flower. But honor dictates they go through with the... Read more

The Islands

By: Di Morrissey

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the psychedelic '70s and social conventions are being challenged. When Catherine Moreland from rural Australia goes on her first trip abroad, a handsome American naval officer sweeps her off her feet and she goes to live in beautiful, romantic Hawaii with her new husband. At first, the magic and loveliness of the Islands lead Catherine to... Read more

Cocaine Blues

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha... Read more

Jack

By: Judy Johnson

Narrated by: Alan King

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1938, the eve of World War II, and a pearling lugger in the Torres Strait is the place he chooses to hide. But Jack's demons follow him out to sea and rise to the surface just as surely as the pearl shell his divers collect from the dangers of the deep. Embittered, intelligent and self-destructive, Jack's only way to prove himself is to... Read more

Ruddy Gore

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The glorious Phryne Fisher returns to the spotlight in her seventh adventure. Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued a gorgeous Chinese, Lin Chung, and... Read more

Wanting

By: Richard Flanagan

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by 19th-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to... Read more

One Sunday

By: Joy Dettman

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Early one Sunday, the town of Molliston wakes to the news that a young bride is dead. The year is 1929. The Great War with Germany has been fought and won, but at an immense cost to the small community. Death is too familiar here. So many sons were lost. So many daughters would never be wives; so many grandchildren would never be born. Racial... Read more

The Last Mile Home

By: Di Morrissey

Narrated by: Bruce Kerr

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1953 in a small country town in Australia, a time of post-war prosperity and hope. The Holtens are wealthy austere graziers who have lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearers family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides eldest daughter falls in love with the Holtens only son and heir,... Read more

Jessica

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob - but will... Read more

Circle of Flight

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Mikaela Martin

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a time of profound change for Ellie Linton. Enemies are everywhere. Some come crawling over the hills others drive in and knock on the front door. Sometimes her friends are there and sometimes they are not. Ellie fights every inch of the way. But when courage and imagination are not enough, when she is trapped and helpless, Ellie must face... Read more