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Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis

Jake's Thing: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Vintage Blue series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Jake's Thing audiobook runs 9.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Keith Allen (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.5listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Jake's Thing is book 4 of Kingsley Amis's Vintage Blue series: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Keith Allen, released December 17, 2020, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.5 hrs
Narrated by
Keith Allen
Released
December 17, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
Series
Vintage Blue #4
ISBN
9781473579194

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Jake's Thing audiobook?

Jake's Thing runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.

Is the Jake's Thing audiobook free?

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Who narrates Jake's Thing?

Jake's Thing is narrated by Keith Allen.