Historical Fiction audiobooks

To Dream Again

By: Irene Northan

Narrated by: Anna Cordell

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When laundress Mercy Seaton’s chance meeting with Peter Lisburne at the annual Torquay regatta leads to a whirlwind proposal, she’s swept into her husband’s glittering world at ‘I do’. But all that glitters is not gold and Mercy’s discomfort in the drawing rooms of Edwardian society leave her adrift in a world she’s ill prepared for. Combined... Read more

The Museum of Broken Promises

By: Elizabeth Buchan

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated – a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to... Read more

Out of the Silence

By: Wendy James

Narrated by: Abbe Holmes

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'What we are suggesting is nothing,' the man mutters darkly, as I pass through the door and into the brightly lit hall. 'Nothing. Far worse can happen.' Far worse. I have a baby, two shillings, no reputation and nowhere to go, but even so I cannot imagine what far worse might be. Out of the Silence is the stunning tale of three women from... Read more

Backlash

By: Morris West

Narrated by: James Wright

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The jeep skidded perilously on the icy surface and Sergeant Willis stopped to put on the chains. While he fitted them, Major Mark Hanlon stepped out onto the road and looked up through his field-glasses at the mountains. Then he saw the skier, a tiny black puppet, motionless. A moment later he began to move, gathering speed, in a flurry of snow... Read more

The Lion Rampant

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

Narrated by: Colin Morgan

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

1154. After years of manipulation and political cunning, young Henry II accedes to the throne of England, with the beautiful and indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine by his side. But the kingdom he inherits is an impoverished shambles after the long, troubled reign of Stephen the Usurper. Together, the tempestuous royal couple use their charisma... Read more

Whispers from the Past

By: Kaye Dobbie

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1928 Evie Woodward is running from a past she barely understands. A widow with a young son she agrees to become partners with Daniel Roxburgh in a Psychic Detective Agency. But their bogus investigations soon take on a very real turn. Daniel lives his life in the shadows of Melbourne’s gangster world. He’s a dangerous man but he’d do... Read more

The Lace Balcony

By: Johanna Nicholls

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Vianna Francis, known in the colony as ‘The Sydney Venus’, is a notorious young mistress in keeping to a former gentleman convict, who uses her to entice wealthy men to his gaming tables. A woman of mystery, Vianna is a magnet for scandal. Was she the mistress of a Royal duke? A lady’s maid who learned the tricks of the world’s oldest... Read more

No Cure for Love

By: Jean Fullerton

Narrated by: Julia Winwood

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen O'Casey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, is struggling to support her ailing mother, her teenage daughter and herself. Washing other people's laundry in the day, and singing in bawdy pubs at night, Ellen is determined to make a better life for her family by saving enough for the passage to New York where the rest of her extended family have... Read more

White Sands of Summer

By: J. H. Fletcher

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Will wealth and love be theirs for the taking or will they run like sand through their fingers? No-one thought barmaid Shannon Harcourt stood a chance with Hal Maitland, heir to the vast Maitland fortune. Yet their unlikely relationship flourishes until, one summer's day on the white sands of Charles Green Island, they realise their true... Read more

The Saracen's Mark

By: S.W. Perry

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1593. Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby – reluctant spy and maverick physician – and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a life on Bankside. But in London there is always a plot afoot … Robert Cecil, the Queen’s spymaster, once... Read more

Guardian Angel

By: Brian John

Narrated by: Janine Cooper Marshall & Malk Williams

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Those who are familiar with the Angel Mountain Saga series will find some characters and settings that they know and love; but this story ranges far more widely, leaving West Wales behind and taking in episodes set in the industrial districts of Merthyr Tydfil, and in Paris. It is a strange story of an elderly lady who calls herself Susanna... Read more

The Spoils of Troy

By: Lindsay Clarke

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Troy has fallen. After ten years of fighting and a savage final massacre, the victors quarrel over what remains and turn their minds to home. Menelaus must decide the fate of Helen, whose incomparable beauty ignited the war. And Agamemnon must return to the fury of Clytaemnestra, who has neither forgotten nor forgiven his choice to sacrifice... Read more

The Bell in the Lake

By: Lars Mytting

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Norway, 1880. In the secluded village of Butangen at the end of the valley, headstrong Astrid dreams of a life beyond marriage, hard work and children. And then Pastor Kai Schweigaard comes into her life, taking over the 700-year-old stave church with its carvings of pagan deities. The two church bells were forged by her forefather in the 16th... Read more

The Forgotten Garden

By: Kate Morton

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and with her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, she feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up... Read more

The Cubs Roar

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

Narrated by: Colin Morgan

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleanor of Aquitaine has disappeared. After launching a great rebellion to destroy her husband Henry II’s reign, it seems she has abandoned her sons in the struggle against their formidable father. As treachery radiates from Scotland to the Pyrenees, tension between the kings of France and England erupts into war. Richard, the mightiest of the... Read more

The Truth & Addy Loest

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth is not a destination – it's a magical ride. Addy Loest is harbouring a secret – several, in fact. Dedicated overthinker, frockaholic and hard-partier, she’s been doing all she can to avoid the truth for quite some time. A working-class girl raised between the Port Kembla Steelworks and the surf of the Illawarra coast, Addy is a fish... Read more

The Orphan's Gift

By: Renita D'Silva

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1910, India. Young and curious Alice grows up in her family’s sprawling compound with parents as remote as England, the cold country she has never seen. It is Raju, son of a servant, with whom she shares her secrets, but when they get too close, Alice’s father drags them apart, sending Raju far away and banishing Alice to England … 1944.... Read more

The Lions' Torment

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

Narrated by: Colin Morgan

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

England’s Archbishop of Canterbury is dying and with him the power of the Church. Seizing his chance, King Henry II sets out to enforce the rule of law that he has painstakingly established to bring violent, corrupt and criminal clergy before his courts. The ever-scheming courtier Thomas Becket uses his mastery of deceit, sycophancy and wit to... Read more

Flying with Angels

By: Brian John

Narrated by: Janine Cooper Marshall & Malk Williams

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1845, and Martha Morgan, Mistress of Plas Ingli, is feeling her age. She receives warnings that she should 'take care'. Her beloved estate collapses, and she has to call upon her deepest reserves of strength in order to survive. But her misery is lessened when she meets a travelling evangelist on the summit of Angel Mountain. It turns out... Read more

Her Last Words

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A murder. A missing manuscript. An undying love. Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It’s 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she’s an old-fashioned girl. She longs only to tell the stories written on her heart. While her best friends, Penny and Jane, and her darling boyfriend, John, seem set for stellar... Read more

The Return From Troy

By: Lindsay Clarke

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Traumatised by the slaughter that his ingenuity unleashed upon the people of Troy, Odysseus believes himself unworthy of returning home. Embarking on an epic journey to the ends of the world and deep into the shadows of his own heart, Odysseus turns at last for Ithaca, where his wife and son await, besieged by rivals who believe – and wish –... Read more

Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear

By: Manda Scott

Narrated by: Jerome Flynn, Philip Stevens & Liza Goddard

Length: 21 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Britannia, AD 60: The tribes of Britannia are ready to seek bloody vengeance. Twenty thousand warriors are poised to reclaim their land from their captors. Now is their chance: the Roman governor has marched his legions west, leaving his capital and a vital port undefended.There is no going back. But to crush her enemies for all time, the... Read more

Christmas with the Ops Room Girls

By: Vicki Beeby

Narrated by: Eleanor Yates

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

After failing to help evacuee siblings whom she witnesses being separated, May wishes she’d had the confidence to speak up. When Jess suggests a pantomime to boost morale on the station, May is desperate to help – but is held back by her own insecurities. With her low self-esteem also affecting her relationship with Squadron Leader Peter... Read more

The Lioness Wakes

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

Narrated by: Colin Morgan

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1171. Thomas Becket is dead, beheaded at the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. As news of his assassination spreads across the country and into Europe, Henry's reputation as a just and mighty king begins to disintegrate. Eleanor, no longer loyal, nor in awe of her husband, instigates the revolt she has craved for years – with Henry's... Read more