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The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) by Jackie French

The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5): Audiobook

by Jackie French · narrated by Edwina Wren · unabridged · 2020

Book 5 of the Matilda series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) runs 15 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Edwina Wren (about 10 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2020released
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What our data says

  • At 15 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Matilda Saga

This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 52.8 hours before it; books 1 to 9 run 118.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1A Waltz for Matilda (The Matilda Saga, #1)14.8 hrs
2The Girl from Snowy River (The Matilda Saga, #2)9.4 hrs
3The Road to Gundagai (The Matilda Saga, #3)12.5 hrs
4To Love a Sunburnt Country (The Matilda Saga, #4)16.1 hrs
5The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)15 hrs
6If Blood Should Stain the Wattle (The Matilda Saga, #6)17.9 hrs
7Facing the Flame (The Matilda Saga, #7)8.6 hrs
8The Last Dingo Summer (The Matilda Saga, #8)9.8 hrs
9Clancy of the Overflow (The Matilda Saga, #9)14.4 hrs

More narrated by Edwina Wren

Edwina Wren narrates 33 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 309 hours in all.

All Edwina Wren audiobooks, measured

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

1,527 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

The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) is book 5 of Jackie French's Matilda series: a 15-hour unabridged recording, read by Edwina Wren, released June 15, 2020, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
15 hrs
Narrated by
Edwina Wren
Released
June 15, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Drama
Series
The Matilda Saga #5
ISBN
9781460782996

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) as an audiobook?

The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) runs 15 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10 hours.

Is The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)?

The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) is narrated by Edwina Wren.

Is The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5) worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10 hours, saving 5 hours.