Bad News: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Patrick Melrose Novels series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Bad News audiobook runs 5.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Alex Jennings (about 3.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.2 hours, it is shorter than 84% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Patrick Melrose Novels
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 4.3 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 33.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never Mind | 4.3 hrs |
| 2 | Bad News | 5.2 hrs |
| 3 | Some Hope | 4.3 hrs |
| 4 | Mother's Milk | 7.5 hrs |
| 5 | At At Last | 12 hrs |
More narrated by Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings narrates 137 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,153 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
855 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Bad News is book 2 of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose Novels series: a 5.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Alex Jennings, released September 12, 2013, on the Literary Fiction and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Alex Jennings
- Released
- September 12, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Comedy, Satire & Parody
- Series
- The Patrick Melrose Novels #2
- ISBN
- 9780230772656
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Bad News audiobook?
Bad News runs 5.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.5 hours.
Is the Bad News audiobook free?
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Who narrates Bad News?
Bad News is narrated by Alex Jennings.