Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Angel's Mark

By: S.W. Perry

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

LONDON, 1590. Queen Elizabeth I's control over her kingdom is wavering. Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars threatening the country's fragile stability, the body of a small boy is found in the City of London, with strange marks that no one can explain. When idealistic physician Nicholas Shelby... Read more

Boudica: Dreaming the Bull

By: Manda Scott

Narrated by: Jerome Flynn, Liza Goddard & Philip Stevens

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome; the culmination of nearly 20 years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilisation and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire. Dreaming The Bull... Read more

Perhaps Tomorrow

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mattie Maguire is a 26-year-old widow with an infant son. Since her husband, Brian, died three years before, she has struggled to keep the family's East End coal business solvent, as well as taking care of her troubled mother-in-law. But unbeknown to Mattie, life is about to get even tougher. Maguire's is in the path of the proposed Wapping to... Read more

In a Great Southern Land

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

Narrated by: Holly Robinson

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the emerald hills of Ireland to a wild colonial land comes an epic story of love, brotherhood and the fight for liberty … 1851: After the death of her father, young Eve Richards is destitute. Her struggle to survive sees her deported in chains to the colony of New South Wales, penniless and alone. But here in this strange new world fortune... Read more

The Little Orphan Girl

By: Sandy Taylor

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Ireland, 1901: The workhouse gates clanged shut behind us, as me and the mammy walked down the hill towards the town. I was six years old and leaving the only home I had ever known … When Cissy Ryan’s real mother comes to claim her from the workhouse, it’s not how she imagined. Her family’s tumbledown cottage has ice on the inside of its... Read more

Ladies in Black

By: Madeleine St John

Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

At the very end of the Ladies’ Frocks Departments, past Cocktail Frocks, there was something very special, something quite, quite wonderful; but it wasn’t for everybody: that was the point. Because there, at the very end, there was a lovely arch, on which was written in curly letters Model Gowns. Written by a superb novelist of contemporary... Read more

Golden Hope

By: Johanna Nicholls

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New Year’s Day 1901 sees the birth of Australia as a nation, eager to claim her place on the world stage. Clytie Hart, a daring equestrienne, is travelling with her mother in a wagon train along the back roads of Victoria’s Gold Triangle. Once world-famous, Wildebrand Circus is now struggling to survive. But a chance meeting with Rom Delaney, a... Read more

Les lotus d'or

By: Jane Yang

Narrated by: Daphné Huynh & Jade Phan-Gia

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Depuis l’âge de quatre ans, Petite Fleur se fait bander les pieds par sa mère. Si elle supporte la douleur, c’est pour avoir des lotus d’or parfaits, des pieds de dix centimètres, qui lui assureraient un mariage respectable malgré la pauvreté de sa famille.

Mais à la mort de son père, Petite Fleur est vendue comme muizai à la riche famille Fong... Read more

Barbara Cartland: 7 wieczorów z romansem historycznym

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Kinga Suchan, Ewa Konstanciak, Katarzyna Bagnie...

Length: 34 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Między rozważnymi decyzjami a porywami serca. Co lepsze: stabilność małżeństwa jako transakcji czy ulotność prawdziwych uczuć? Przed takim dylematem stają bohaterki klasycznych romansów Barbary Cartland. Klasowe społeczeństwo brytyjskie, groźba mezaliansu i próby kobiecego samostanowienia w sieci patriarchalnych układów. A wszystko to w... Read more

A Surgeon and a Spy

By: Alina Rubin

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unfortunately for you, you can't imprison my mind."



On the turbulent seas of the Napoleonic Wars, Ella Parker dedicates herself to healing the sick and wounded, resolutely dismissing the idea of romantic entanglements. Her commitment is tested when her childhood friend, Jamie Flowers, is captured by the enemy and imprisoned in a French fortress,... Read more

Preacher's Strike

By: William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Preacher leads a search party for a missing woman—and finds himself caught in the crossfire of cutthroat kidnappers, savage Sioux warriors, and one cunning captive . . .



Preacher is heading home to the mountains when he's approached by a wealthy European with an unusual proposition. He wants the legendary mountain man to track down his missing... Read more

A Courtesan for Christmas

By: Michele Pollock Dalton

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ugly reality kept young Nicolet Sherman tied to the oldest profession in the world - at least until a determined Yankee soldier stole her away from her mother’s house of ill repute. But years of broken trust and abuse left the exquisite beauty with scars no eye could see. And what could one very determined army chaplain change . . . except her... Read more

A Fugitive for Christmas

By: Michele Pollock Dalton

Narrated by: Rick Barr

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Roseanna Sherman escapes the wealthy man who is determined to steal her children. But will the ruse of becoming a proxy bride fall apart when she’s thrust into the arms of a small-town sheriff? Only time and the wanted poster stuck to the jailhouse wall will tell.
Southern grace meets Western grit, and love becomes the greatest gift of all.Join... Read more

54 Miles

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and... Read more

Christmas in Clover Springs

By: Rachel Wesson

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Alicia Carstairs had it all—or so she thought. Financially secure, well brought up, engaged to a prominent young man. So why was she on a train headed west in the hopes of securing a position as a governess?



Aaron Higgins thought he was happy until all his friends, his brother, and now Little Beaver, too, were married and having children. He... Read more

The Great World

By: David Malouf

Narrated by: John Derum

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles – from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In The Great World, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But The Great World... Read more

The Orphan Sisters

By: Shirley Dickson

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

1929: Four-year-old Etty and eight-year-old Dorothy are abandoned at Blakely Hall orphanage by their mother, never to see her again. With no other family to speak of, the sisters worship their beloved mam – and they are confused and heartbroken to be deserted by her when they need her the most. 1940: Etty and Dorothy are finally released from... Read more

The Daughters of Mars

By: Tom Keneally

Narrated by: Jane Nolan

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education... Read more

The Ringmaster

By: Morris West

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Autumn 1990. The world is teetering on the edge of war in the Gulf, Germany is reunited and a crumbling USSR stares ruin in the face. In Japan, a group of powerful men and women gather to create a rescue plan that will bring all three countries together for the first time in 50 years. Polyglot international publisher Gill Langton is... Read more

The Rising of Bella Casey

By: Mary Morrissy

Narrated by: Marcella Riordan

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From a piano abandoned on the strife-torn streets of Dublin at Easter 1916, Mary Morrissy spins the reader backwards through the life of enigmatic beauty Bella Casey, sister of the famed playwright Seán O’Casey. The real and imagined are entwined in a haunting and deeply affecting novel of sexual secrets, obsession and desires. Read more

The Girl in the Painting

By: Renita D'Silva

Narrated by: Aasiya Shah

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

India, 1926: English Margaret arrives with her new husband Suraj at his family home, set amidst beautiful rolling hills, the air filled with the soft scent of spices and hibiscus flowers. Margaret is unwelcome, homesick and lonely, but her maid Archana, a young woman from an impoverished family, reminds her of her long-lost sister, a tiny... Read more

Hold Onto Hope

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Ellis learnt the hard way that falling in love with the wrong man could be your undoing. It was nine years ago that she fell for the charms of Freddie Ellis, only to discover his criminal ways. With her husband in prison, Kate has fought hard to give her two children everything they could need. But now Freddie is back and threatens to... Read more

When I Was Yours

By: Lizzie Page

Narrated by: Jenny Funnell

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

1939. War has broken out – hundreds of children are evacuated to the countryside to keep them safe from the bombs raining down on London. Wrenched from her family in the East End and sent more than a hundred miles away, seven-year-old Pearl Posner must adapt to a new life away from everything familiar. Vivienne didn’t ask for an evacuee child.... Read more

Lazarus

By: Morris West

Narrated by: James Wright

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Iron-fisted Pope Leo XIV emerges from open heart surgery with the chilling realisation that his reforms have devastated the Church. As he struggles to overcome the policies he himself put in place, he must battle enemies from within the Vatican, as well as Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him. Amid political intrigue and... Read more