Historical Fiction audiobooks

The House on Lonely Street

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

For Katherine Donovan the slums of Dublin are a lonely place. Her father, a pawnbroker, is the most hated man in the district, and Katherine an outcast. Her only friend is tiny Ceppi Healy, underfed, irrepressible and, the youngest in a neglected family of eight, as much an emotional orphan as eighteen-year-old Katherine. Then, one night, the... Read more

My Sister's Child

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a roof over their heads are luxuries. The Ryan family have barely grown accustomed to such things when a fire destroys their father Jack's modest coal haulage business, leaving Jack broken and his family facing ruin. They're forced to turn to Conor, Jack's brother from Ireland,... Read more

Take these Broken Wings

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Eunice Roberts

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyn Andrews' powerful Liverpool saga TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS is perfect for readers of Dilly Court and Kate Thompson.

Since she was six, Hannah Peckham has known how hard the world is. Thrown into the workhouse by the cousin to whom her desperate soldier father entrusted her, she emerges determined to make the most of what life has to offer,... Read more

Days of Hope

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1945 and the war is finally over. For the Devlin family in Liverpool, the wartime years have been almost too much to bear. But at long last sisters Grace and Chrissie can return to their normal lives. Level-headed and hard-working, Grace wants nothing more than to meet a nice man and settle down. Vivacious Chrissie, though, craves fun and... Read more

When Daylight Comes

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

WHEN TOMORROW DAWNS - a heart-warming and compelling saga by Lyn Andrews. Not to be missed by readers of Dilly Court and Donna Douglas.

Jessica Brennan is just nineteen years old when her world falls apart. Losing her father at sea was devastating enough, but the death of her mother is almost too much to bear. The grieving has barely begun when... Read more

Angels of Mercy

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Jaqueline King

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Lyn Andrews' unputdownable saga ANGELS OF MERCY is perfect for fans of Kate Thompson and Kitty Neale.

Blue-eyed, blond-haired, full of smiles and sweetness, even as babies twins Kate and Evvie Greenway captured the hearts of Liverpool's Scotland Road slumlands. But now they are almost adults the two girls find that being... Read more

Across a Summer Sea

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary McGann's marriage has always been difficult, thanks to her husband Frank's drunken, jealous nature. Only because the little money he earns in the docks keeps food in the mouths of their children is Mary prepared to put up with him. But when Frank throws them all out on the street, Mary flees to her family in Dublin. There she meets Richard... Read more

The Ties that Bind

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Jaqueline King

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TIES THAT BIND is a powerful, moving saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. Not to be missed by readers of Kate Thompson and Donna Douglas.

Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter of a family of fatherless boys. When her mother dies she's her brothers' lifeline to survival. So for Tessa the privations of war are just another battle to be... Read more

A Mother's Love

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Lyn Andrews' touching Liverpool saga A MOTHER'S LOVE is perfect for fans of Ellie Dean and Kate Thompson.

Eve and Eddie Dobson have been running the George pub in Liverpool for over twenty years. Now, though, the Depression is taking hold and, with money in short supply, it's galling for Eve that the barmaid they can barely... Read more

A Secret in the Family

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating new novel from the bestselling author of A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY and DAYS OF HOPE - 'An outstanding storyteller' Woman's Weekly

When best friends Dee Campbell and Jean Williams leave school in 1959, it feels like every opportunity awaits them. Their families haven't long moved from a rundown part of the city to leafy Kirkby when Jean's... Read more

Every Mother's Son

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Julie Maisey

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Molly and Bernie have been friends forever. As young girls they left Ireland seeking new beginnings in Liverpool. Now they are marrying their sweethearts and looking forward to enjoying the lives they've worked so hard to build. But as the Liverpool Blitz begins, it seems as if their dreams are about to be destroyed. Night after night, horrific... Read more

Untamed Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Druid-born and magic-blessed, Isla is one of the deadliest she-devils ever to serve the forces of darkness. As an immortal Highland warrior, it's up to Hayden Campbell to destroy her and her kind. But for Hayden, Isla is more than a sworn enemy. She is temptation.

Taking Isla captive, Hayden hopes to avenge his kinsmen who died by Druid magic.... Read more

A Daughter's Journey

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

A captivating new saga set in Liverpool and Ireland, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE and FAR FROM HOME Angela O'Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don't love her... Read more

Far From Home

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's,... Read more

Friends Forever

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

FRIENDS FOREVER is the moving saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews. A must read for fans of Kitty Neale and Ellie Deane.

In 1928 Bernie O'Sullivan and Molly Keegan catch their first glimpse of the bustling city they're about to call home. Both seventeen, and best friends since childhood, the girls have left Ireland behind for an exciting new... Read more

To Love and to Cherish

By: Lyn Andrews

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The enthralling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author and Headline's queen of sagas

Life in 1920s Liverpool for sisters Gloria and Betty Jenkins is secure and comfortable. Elder sister Gloria finds romance with the boy next door, until her wealthy, but snobbish and interfering Aunt Sybil steps in, offering her the opportunity of a... Read more

Earth Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In thirteenth-century England, lovely Philippa de Beauchamp escapes from her father's castle and is swept away by the roguish Dienwald de Fortenberry, only to find herself a prisoner in her lover's castle, surrounded by mysteries, villains, and passion. Read more

Stringer and the Deadly Flood

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows that Salton's Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty engineer knows the truth about International Irrigation, but he's six feet under with a chest full... Read more

The Taming of Annabelle

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Annabelle Armitage is pea-green with envy. What a cruel world it is when her spinster of an older sister can enchant the dashing Lord Sylvester Comfrey! Annabelle’s own passionate nature is surely better suited for such a one as Sylvester. Alas for Annabelle, Comfrey seems to care for her not a jot. Determined to get a bit of her own back,... Read more

Minerva

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Minerva marks the delightful debut of the Six Sisters series, a family saga in six volumes that recounts the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend Charles Armitage, in Regency England.The eldest, Minerva, is enchantingly beautiful—but a prude. She lives in the country looking after her siblings... Read more

Earth Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In thirteenth-century England, lovely Philippa de Beauchamp escapes from her father's castle and is swept away by the roguish Dienwald de Fortenberry, only to find herself a prisoner in her lover's castle, surrounded by mysteries, villains, and passion. Read more

An Heiress at Heart

By: Jennifer Delamere

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With An Heiress at Heart, Jennifer Delamere delivers the first in a historical romance series sure to set hearts aflame. After five years in exile for a youthful indiscretion, Lizzie Poole is given a second chance to join London society when her best friend Ria takes to her death bed and asks Lizzie to assume her identity. Ria wants Lizzie to... Read more

The Christmas Kid

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the... Read more

Astray

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and... Read more