Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Rome Zoo

By: Pascal Janovjak

Narrated by: Robert Meldrum

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome, too, wants the sound of roaring as evening falls … The Rome Zoo – a place borne of fantasy and driven by a nation’s aspirations. It has witnessed – and reflected in its tarnished mirror – the great follies of the 20th century. Now, in an ongoing battle that has seen it survive world wars and epidemics, the zoo must once again reinvent... Read more

The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger

By: Suzanne Fortin

Narrated by: Anne McCaffery

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Pettinger's memory isn't what it used to be. He can't always remember the names of his grandchildren, where he lives or which way round his slippers go. He does remember Maryse though, a woman he hasn't seen for decades, but whose face he will never forget. When Arthur's granddaughter Maddy moves in along with her daughter Esther, it's... Read more

Case Study

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

Narrated by: Serena Manteghi & Graeme Rooney

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in... Read more

Fireworks and Darkness

By: Natalie Jane Prior

Narrated by: Michael Veitch

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Simeon Runciman is a firework maker who used to be a dark magician – a difficult man with a dangerous past. His son, Casimir, has always known part of the truth about him. When Simeon's enemy, the sinister magician, Circastes, reappears in their lives intent on revenge, Casimir is caught in a web of murder, deceit and magic. Forced to fight... Read more

The Parihaka Woman

By: Witi Ihimaera

Narrated by: Jim Moriarty & Shavaughn Ruakere

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls... Read more

The Shimmer on the Water

By: Marina McCarron

Narrated by: Jessica Preddy

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When you're lost sometimes the only way to look forward is to look back ... Three women. Two generations apart. One secret they share. Maine, 1997. As the people of Fort Meadow Beach celebrate the Fourth of July, four-year-old Daisy Wright disappears and is never seen again. Maine, Present Day. Fired from her job and heartbroken, Peyton... Read more

Brothers and Sisters of Byland Crescent

By: Bill Kitson

Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Yorkshire, 1878. Young, ambitious and in love, Albert Cowgill’s life is finally beginning in earnest. At just 23, he has already been made partner at Haigh, Ackroyd & Cowgill – the best wool business in the city. He’s also just laid eyes on the prettiest girl he ever saw, Hannah Ackroyd. Romance soon blossoms for Albert and Hannah, and they... Read more

Heart Of The Cross

By: Emily Madden

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Tinahely, Ireland, 1959. Rosie Hart is content leaving her home behind to follow her new husband to Australia. But she soon discovers there is no room for her or their young son in the life he has built in vibrant Kings Cross. As their marriage crumbles, Rosie will need to fight for the golden future her son deserves ... until the day her world... Read more

Gallipoli Street

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

At 17, Veronica O’Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother’s friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance. But this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to... Read more

Ironbark

By: Johanna Nicholls

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 23 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Jake Andersen is a proud currency lad with a swagger in his step and a joke for his mates, until he discovers the wife he is besotted with has left him, and taken their young daughter with her. A prize fighter, Jake decides to take matters into his own hands and find his wife, and the mongrel she ran off with. Fuelled by revenge, he starts a... Read more

The Buchanan Girls

By: Emily Madden

Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sydney, 1941: Olive and Ivy may be identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. While Olive is focused on marrying a man appropriate to her station, Ivy wants to do more, to be more. Joining the Australian Women’s Army Service is the perfect chance for her to escape her family obligations and make a real difference in the world. She... Read more

The Opal Dragonfly

By: Julian Leatherdale

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Isobel Clara Macleod, youngest of the seven children of Major Sir Angus Hutton Macleod, Surveyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, had the singular misfortune to know that at seven o'clock that morning her father was going to die. September, 1851. Sydney, city of secrets and gossip. Seventeen-year-old Isobel Macleod is determined... Read more

And Fire Falls

By: Peter Watt

Narrated by: John Voce

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sydney, siblings Donald and Sarah Macintosh battle for their father's approval, and control of his empire, while their cousin David fights the enemy across the continents. US Marine Pilot James Duffy defies his grandfather's wishes, and a number of times, death, protecting Australian skies from the Japanese. Below, trapped in the jungles of... Read more

Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories

By: Bill 'Swampy' Marsh

Narrated by: Bill 'Swampy' Marsh & Jacqui Katona

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus there were the duties of gardener, cleaner, nurse, registrar, office administrator, free milk dispenser, librarian and, on occasions, school bus driver. Oh, and in one school I was even responsible for 'mother... Read more

Paper Daisies

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley & Johnny Carr

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It's December, 1900, and Berylda Jones is heading home to Bathurst for Christmas. Tragically, 'home' is where she and her beloved sister Greta live in terror, under the control of their sadistic Uncle Alec. But Berylda has a plan, borne out of desperation, to free herself and Greta from Alec for good – if she can only find the courage to... Read more

The Keepers of the Lighthouse

By: Kaye Dobbie

Narrated by: Alice Batt

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

1882. Laura Webster and her father are the stalwart keepers of Benevolence Island Lighthouse, a desolate place stranded in the turbulent Bass Strait. When a raging storm wrecks a schooner just offshore, the few survivors take shelter with the Websters, awaiting rescue from the mainland. But some of the passengers have secrets that lead to... Read more

Black Diamonds

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Amanda Harrison & Cameron Moore

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1914 and Lithgow is booming. Daniel is a young German-Australian, a coalminer and a socialist; Francine is the bourgeois, Irish-Catholic, too-good-for-this-place daughter of one of the mine's owners. When their paths collide, they fall in love despite themselves – raising eyebrows all around town. But before the signatures on their... Read more

Beyond a Broken Sky

By: Suzanne Fortin

Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secrets are better left buried … 2022. Stained-glass expert Rhoda Sullivan is called to Telton Hall to examine a window designed by an Italian prisoner of war during WWII. It should be a quick job but when she and the owner's son, Nate Hartwell, discover a body underneath one of the flagstones in the chapel, Rhoda cannot let the mystery... Read more

Island of Secrets

By: Patricia Wilson

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'The story started at dawn on the fourteenth of September, 1943 ...' All her life, London-born Angelika has been intrigued by her mother's secret past. Now planning her wedding, she feels she must visit the remote Crete village her mother grew up in. Angie's estranged elderly grandmother, Maria, is dying. She welcomes Angie with open arms –... Read more

Frau Holles Labyrinth

By: Stefanie Lasthaus

Narrated by: Isabel Kluth

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Mary zum einundzwanzigsten Geburtstag ihrer jüngeren Schwester Moira nach Hause aufs Land fahren muss, ist sie nicht gerade begeistert. Nach dem Tod der Eltern sind die beiden Schwestern bei ihrer strengen Tante aufgewachsen, die Moira immer bevorzugt hat. Als diese zum Geburtstag nun auch noch die Kette ihrer verstorbenen Mutter bekommt,... Read more

El clan del oso cavernario

By: Jean M. Auel

Narrated by: Núria Samsó

Length: 24 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Primera novela donde Ayla, una niña cromañón huérfana, vive aventuras que nos acercan a nuestros antepasados. En la última fase de la Era Glacial un terremoto deja a la pequeña Ayla, de cinco años, aislada de su tribu. Afortunadamente encuentra refugio entre los miembros del clan, un grupo de neandertales. Valiente e indomable, la joven... Read more

On Seas So Crimson

By: James Young

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 26 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Adolf Hitler is dead. Great Britain lies prostrate, subdued under a storm of poison gas and incendiaries that have turned the great city of London into a blazing abattoir.For RAF Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, London’s destruction is the nightmare outcome of years spent fighting the specter of Fascism. Getting out of England one step ahead of the... Read more

Die Gottesritter: Sammelband zur packenden Mittelalter Sage von Tom Melley

By: Tom Melley

Narrated by: Renier Baaken

Length: 51 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Tauche ein in die faszinierende Welt des Mittelalters, wo Ehre, Verrat und der unaufhörliche Kampf um Glauben und Macht die Geschicke von Männern und Frauen bestimmen. In diesem fesselnden Sammelband "Gotteskrieger" aus der packenden Mittelalter-Saga erwarten dich vier epische Geschichten, die von heldenhaften Rittern, geheimen Missionen und... Read more

Falconer's Crusade

By: Ian Morson

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1264. England is in turmoil. King Henry III's reign is under threat. In Oxford the barons prepare to challenge his rule. Searching for his lodgings down a dark alley, young student Thomas Symon hears a scream. It's a young girl, her throat slit. Mistaken for the fleeing killer, Thomas is saved from a vengeful town mob by a stranger... Read more