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Nightshade by Anthony Horowitz

Nightshade: Audiobook

Book 12 of the Alex Rider Adventure series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Nightshade audiobook runs 10.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Rupert Degas (about 6.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.1listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Kids)store shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish Nightshade at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day21 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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

What our data says

  • At 10.1 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 2,649 Action & Adventure (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Alex Rider Adventure

This is book 12. Books 1 to 11 run 87.3 hours before it; books 1 to 13 run 105.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Stormbreaker4.7 hrs
2Point Blank5.7 hrs
3Skeleton Key7 hrs
4Eagle Strike6.6 hrs
5Scorpia8.1 hrs
6Ark Angel7.9 hrs
7Snakehead9.1 hrs
8Crocodile Tears9.6 hrs
9Scorpia Rising9.4 hrs
10Russian Roulette: Alex Rider, Book 1010.2 hrs
11Never Say Die8.9 hrs
12Nightshade10.1 hrs

More narrated by Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas narrates 113 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,057 hours in all.

All Rupert Degas audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Kids) shelf

103 Action & Adventure (Kids) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2020 recording read by Simon Prebble runs about the same length (10.1 hours).

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

Nightshade is book 12 of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider Adventure series: a 10.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Rupert Degas, released May 28, 2020, on the Action & Adventure (Kids) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.1 hrs
Narrated by
Rupert Degas
Released
May 28, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Kids)
Series
Alex Rider Adventure #12
ISBN
9781004002078

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Nightshade audiobook?

Nightshade runs 10.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.8 hours.

Is the Nightshade audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Nightshade?

Nightshade is narrated by Rupert Degas.

Is Nightshade worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.8 hours, saving 3.4 hours.