The Sanctuary Sparrow: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sanctuary Sparrow runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Patrick Tull (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.6 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
This is book 7. Books 1 to 6 run 56.2 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 131.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Morbid Taste for Bones | 8.8 hrs |
| 2 | One Corpse Too Many | 9.9 hrs |
| 3 | Monk's Hood | 9.6 hrs |
| 4 | Saint Peter's Fair | 9.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Leper of Saint Giles | 9 hrs |
| 6 | The Virgin in the Ice | 9.4 hrs |
| 7 | The Sanctuary Sparrow | 9.6 hrs |
| 8 | The Devil's Novice | 8.7 hrs |
| 9 | Dead Man's Ransom | 8.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Pilgrim of Hate | 8.2 hrs |
| 11 | An Excellent Mystery | 8.4 hrs |
| 12 | The Raven in the Foregate | 8.2 hrs |
More narrated by Patrick Tull
Patrick Tull narrates 56 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 622 hours in all.
About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf
509 Classics (Literature) 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 Sanctuary Sparrow is book 7 of Ellis Peters's Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Tull, released December 11, 2009, on the Cozy Mystery and Classics (Literature) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Patrick Tull
- Released
- December 11, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Cozy Mystery, Classics (Literature)
- Series
- Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7
- ISBN
- 9781440788826
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sanctuary Sparrow as an audiobook?
The Sanctuary Sparrow runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Sanctuary Sparrow free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Sanctuary Sparrow?
The Sanctuary Sparrow is narrated by Patrick Tull.