Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Woman of the House

By: Alice Taylor

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. The small, rural Irish farm has been the pride of them all until Ned's wife, Martha, arrives and begins to undermine generations of hard work and happiness. She resents the deep history of the place and sets about making it her own, shutting out what is left of Ned's family. She is particularly... Read more

The Lost Pearl

By: Emily Madden

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Honolulu, Hawaii 1941 On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of. As... Read more

The Chocolate Maker's Wife

By: Karen Brooks

Narrated by: Willow Nash

Length: 20 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world she is so different, with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, that the midwives believe she will lead a charmed life. But Rosamund’s life is set to be anything but enchanted. Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life... Read more

Suitcase of Dreams

By: Tania Blanchard

Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

After enduring the horror and chaos of postwar Germany, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia full of hope for a new life. It’s a land of opportunity, where Lotte and husband Erich hope to give their children the future they have always dreamed of. After years of struggling to find their feet as ‘New Australians’, Erich turns his... Read more

Ember Island

By: Kimberley Freeman

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place she knows, Tilly takes a job on Ember Island in Moreton Bay, Australia, where she becomes the governess to the prison superintendent's precocious young daughter, Nell. Tilly knows she must keep the... Read more

A Ration Book Christmas

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Rosie Akerman

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

With Christmas approaching, the Brogan family of London's East End are braving the horrors of the Blitz. With the men away fighting for King and Country and the ever-present dangers of the German Luftwaffe's nightly reign of death and destruction, the family must do all they can to keep a stiff upper lip. For Jo, the youngest of the Brogan... Read more

Heritage

By: Judy Nunn

Narrated by: John Derum

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than seventy nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity. They came from all over wartorn Europe to the mountains of Australia to help realise one man's dream: the mighty Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme,... Read more

Easy Money

By: Jenny Siler

Narrated by: Betty Bobbitt

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Just off Bainbridge Island, in the early evening, a former top-ranking CIA officer mysteriously drowns. In Key West, a drug runner is found with a bullet lodged in his skull. And outside Seattle a young woman arrives in a dimly lit bar to pick up a computer disk. Moments later, she stumbles upon the body of her contact, dead in the bathroom. To... Read more

House of Memories

By: Alice Taylor

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his brutish father's death, young Danny Conway strives to rescue the family farm from ruin. When all seems hopeless, help comes from the most unexpected quarter. A story of grief and trying to cope with loss, but also of resilience in the face of family tragedy. No one knows the minutiae of country life as Alice Taylor does, and again... Read more

Evergreen Falls

By: Kimberley Freeman

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests are left, including the heir to a rich grazing family, his sister and her suave suitor. When a snowstorm moves in, the hotel is cut off and they are all trapped. No one could have... Read more

A Question of Death

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamante garters - is the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including Prynne's favourite shoes and hats, decadent cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwanted... Read more

Murder and Mendelssohn

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand. An orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher's assistance to enter a world in which he is at sea. Hugh... Read more

Into the Fire

By: Manda Scott

Narrated by: Philip Stevens & Emma Gregory

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a secret, hidden within a body, burning within the flames, which will change it all. A man’s charred corpse is found in the latest of a string of arson attacks in the French city of Orléans. His is the first death. An extremist group claim responsibility but their whereabouts cannot be found. Police inspector Capitaine Inès Picaut and... Read more

Across the River

By: Alice Taylor

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

At Mossgrove, the Phelan family farm, long-time hired hand Jack plays peacemaker as widow Martha Phelan battles her young son, Peter, who wants to modernise the farm. Tensions on the home front are bitter enough, but at the Conway farm across the river, more trouble is brewing. Slovenly Matt Conway feels trapped and abuses his wife, Biddy.... Read more

The Dark Dream

By: Kaye Dobbie

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1852. Adam has just returned from the Californian goldfields and is heading for Bendigo in Victoria, the new El Dorado. He comes across Ella, injured, penniless and with only the clothes she is wearing. Adam is the son of a convict with the determination and intelligence to ‘better’ himself. Despite her current circumstances, it is... Read more

Our Last Goodbye

By: Shirley Dickson

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

1943, England: On a foggy night during the blackout, 25-year-old May Robinson watches in horror as her mother, Ivy, is tragically killed. Heartbroken, May is not sure she has the strength to harbour the secret she has kept for so many years – a secret that her mother devoted her life to hiding, and that would tear their broken family even... Read more

Territory

By: Judy Nunn

Narrated by: John Gregg

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Territory is the story of Henrietta Southern, a young Englishwoman who trades her war-torn homeland for a place of wild tropical storms and searing heat, crocodile-infested rivers and barren red wilderness. Six months after the bombing of Darwin, she joins her new husband, Spitfire pilot Terence Galloway, for a new life on his Northern Territory... Read more

Pacific

By: Judy Nunn

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 25 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first lead movie role in the Hollywood epic Torpedo Junction, playing a character based on World War II heroine 'Mamma Tack'. But as filming begins in Vanuatu, uncanny parallels between history and fiction emerge. Just who was the real Mamma Tack? And what mysterious forces are... Read more

Land of Golden Wattle

By: J. H. Fletcher

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

1826, Van Diemen's Land When her father dies in a duel, 17-year-old Emma Tregellas is left with limited funds and at the mercy of her odious guardian. Faced with the prospect of being forced into marriage with a man she detests, she enlists the help of her true love, Ephraim Dark, who assists her to escape to faraway Van Diemen's Land. Here she... Read more

The Honourable Thief

By: Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios

Narrated by: Alan King

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Istanbul, Turkey 1955 Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited – but still rather charming – shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adventure, his determination to prove that Achilles was an historical figure led him to his greatest love, Karina, on the island of Crete and to his greatest... Read more

The Art of Preserving Love

By: Ada Langton

Narrated by: Stephanie Foxley

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Ballarat, 1905 The gossips call 19-year-old Edie Cottingham the 'Too Girl' – too stubborn, too outspoken and too modern to get a husband. But Edie does not care. She is determined to defy them all and find love with Theo Hooley, the gentle church organist and veteran of the African Boer war. But just as Theo prepares to ask Edie's father for... Read more

White Feathers

By: Susan Lanigan

Narrated by: Amy De Bhrún

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1913, young Irish emigrant Eva Downey is trapped in London with a remote father and hostile stepmother. When she is awarded a legacy from an old suffragette to attend a finishing school in Kent, she jumps at the chance. At the school, she finds kinship and later falls in love with her teacher Christopher Shandlin, her intellectual equal. But... Read more

Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

Narrated by: Yael Stone

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock – a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling … St Valentine’s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls... Read more

Wartime Brides and Wedding Cakes

By: Amy Miller

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1941: As Charlie Barton tiptoes silently out of the house one cold winter morning to go off and fight for his country, his wife Audrey is left to run the family bakery on her own. Times are tougher than ever, but at the Barton Bakery in Bournemouth, Audrey is determined as always to serve the town with love, loaves and cakes, even as... Read more