Historical Fiction audiobooks

Tomorrow, When the War Began

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

While Ellie and her friends are away in the bush, the world changes. Suddenly they are in the toughest situations humans can confront, facing life and death decisions. They are thrown into a world where they find courage, initiative, spirit and wisdom, or they die... Read more

Exposure

By: Helen Dunmore

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

London, November 1960. The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, a woman buries a briefcase deep in the earth. She believes that she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating... Read more

The Mark of the Angel

By: Nancy Huston

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1957, and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistible. One day in the old Jewish quarter of the city, where she has taken Raphael's flute to... Read more

Carpentaria

By: Alexis Wright

Narrated by: Isaac Drandich

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one... Read more

Fava Beans for Breakfast

By: Suzanne Salem

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What if moving to a crumbling Australian coastal town meant giving up your only dream? In 1974, Nayeema reluctantly leaves Sydney’s inner city to move to Burraboo, a tired coastal town, with her husband Fawzy. In doing so, Nayeema surrenders her only dream, but once there she falls under the sway of new infatuations. On a houseboat in the... Read more

Deposed

By: David Barbaree

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In a darkened cell, a brutally deposed dictator lies crippled – deprived of his power, his freedom – and his eyes. On the edge of utter despair, his only companion is the young boy who brings him his meagre rations, a mere child who fears his own shadow. But to one who has held and lost the highest power, one thing alone is crystal clear: even... Read more

Wild Lavender

By: Belinda Alexandra

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provençal lavender farm at the age of fourteen after the accidental death of her father. Forced to become a maid at the boarding house of her aunt Augustine in Marseilles, Simone's life is hard and impoverished. But one of her aunt's boarders, the beautiful Camille Casal - a star at the local music... Read more

The Potato Factory

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ikey Solomon is very successful indeed, in the art of thieving. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from 19th century London to Van Diemens Land. In the backstreets and dives of Hobart Town, Mary learns the art of brewing and... Read more

Ghost Gum Valley

By: Johanna Nicholls

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

English aristocrat Isabel de Rolland is sent to Australia to marry Marmaduke Gamble, the debts of her family being paid in exchange for the respectability her lineage gives the rich ex-convict Gamble family.  Despite all odds, Isabel and Marmaduke develop a grudging friendship that over time blooms into something more. But the secrets of the... Read more

Stories from Gallipoli

By: Steve Sailah

Narrated by: Steve Sailah

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Former ABC Radio Current Affairs reporter Steve Sailah interviewed six Australians who took part in a young nation’s first major military campaign at Gallipoli in 1915. These original Anzacs have since passed on, but their stories remain fresh – the stories of naive young men eager to defend the Mother Country but who had no concept of the... Read more

Murder in Montparnasse

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead, under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives and... Read more

Tandia

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 26 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay.... Read more

Winter Journey

By: Diane Armstrong

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Halina Shore is a Polish-born forensic dentist who lives in Australia. When she travels to Poland to take part in the investigation of a war crime, she finds herself at the centre of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. As the investigation proceeds, her professional assignment becomes a confronting personal... Read more

Unnatural Habits

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous. Polly Kettle, a pushy, self-important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense of self-preservation, decides to investigate -... Read more

Wildlight

By: David Metzenthen

Narrated by: Michael Veitch

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the forest, armed men from a new settlement ventured to investigate strange lights and found three fires burning, a child at their centre tethered to a stake. The boy appeared to be white, perhaps three or four years old, unable to speak. He watched the men with the darting, fearful eyes of a wild animal and at their approach he crouched,... Read more

While I Live

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly. School's back in, Juicy's is open for coffee, farmers are bidding at the cattle sales. Ellie Linton at last gets what she longed for and what she fought for, to be back on the farm with her parents. But it's not the same. A new nation is on the other side of a new border. Suddenly the war is... Read more

Darkness, Be My Friend

By: John Marsden

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

That's what war does for you – either kills you in one hit or destroys you slowly. One way or the other, it gets you ... unless you fight back ... Read more

Clancy's Crossing

By: Evan Green

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

They say no one from the convict settlement of Sydney Town crossed the steep ranges of the Blue Mountains until 1813. But the quick-witted convict Clancy Fitzgerald did it in 1798, dragging with him the proud, but reluctant, Eliza Philips. Faced with constant danger and wrenching isolation, Clancy and Eliza found themselves pale-skinned... Read more

An Orphan's Dream

By: Judy Summers

Narrated by: Annabelle Dowler

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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Will her secret past threaten her dreams?

Liverpool, 1864. When Jemima Jenkins's beloved Pa passes away leaving her orphaned, she is cruelly thrown out of her lodgings and dismissed from her cherished job as a schoolmistress.

Offered a temporary home with her best friend Betty, Jemima is determined to avoid the... Read more

الفارس الأسود

By: د. نبيل فاروق

Narrated by: معتز أبو طالب

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

تدور أحداث هذة السلسلة خلال الحقبة الأخيرة من عصر الدلة الأندلسية التى دمت مايقرب من سبعه قرون ، ينقلنا الأديب الراحل د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين Read more

الهاربة

By: د. نبيل فاروق

Narrated by: صفا زياني

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

تدور أحداث هذة السلسلة خلال الحقبة الأخيرة من عصر الدلة الأندلسية التى دمت مايقرب من سبعه قرون ، ينقلنا الأديب الراحل د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين Read more

الرمح المكسور

By: د. نبيل فاروق

Narrated by: يونس سبع

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

تدور أحداث هذة السلسلة خلال الحقبة الأخيرة من عصر الدلة الأندلسية التى دمت مايقرب من سبعه قرون ، ينقلنا الأديب الراحل د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين Read more

نداء غرناطة

By: د. نبيل فاروق

Narrated by: هشام عبد الموجود

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

تدور أحداث هذة السلسلة خلال الحقبة الأخيرة من عصر الدلة الأندلسية التى دمت مايقرب من سبعه قرون ، ينقلنا الأديب الراحل د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين Read more

رأس السهم

By: د. نبيل فاروق

Narrated by: معتز أبو طالب

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

تدور أحداث هذة السلسلة خلال الحقبة الأخيرة من عصر الدلة الأندلسية التى دمت مايقرب من سبعه قرون ، ينقلنا الأديب الراحل د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين Read more