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Fire and Sword by Harry Sidebottom

Fire and Sword: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Throne of the Caesars series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Fire and Sword audiobook runs 11 hours unabridged, narrated by Colin Mace (about 7.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11 hours of listening.

Days to finish Fire and Sword at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 11 hours, it runs longer than 57% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Throne of the Caesars

This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 21.9 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 32.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Iron and Rust11.3 hrs
2Blood and Steel10.6 hrs
3Fire and Sword11 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

3,514 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

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

Fire and Sword is book 3 of Harry Sidebottom's Throne of the Caesars series: a 11-hour unabridged recording, read by Colin Mace, released May 19, 2016, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Historical (Fiction) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11 hrs
Narrated by
Colin Mace
Released
May 19, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction), Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
Series
Throne of the Caesars #3
ISBN
9780008170998

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Fire and Sword audiobook?

Fire and Sword runs 11 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.3 hours.

Is the Fire and Sword audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Fire and Sword?

Fire and Sword is narrated by Colin Mace.

Is Fire and Sword worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.3 hours, saving 3.7 hours.