The Sands of Shark Island: Audiobook
Book 2 of the School Ship Tobermory series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sands of Shark Island runs 5.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith (about 3.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 5.7 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 37,584 Kids audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on School Ship Tobermory
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 4.9 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 19.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | School Ship Tobermory | 4.9 hrs |
| 2 | The Sands of Shark Island | 5.7 hrs |
| 3 | The Race To Kangaroo Cliff | 4.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Secret of the Dark Waterfall: A School Ship Tobermory Adventure (Book 4) | 4 hrs |
More narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith
Nicholas Guy Smith narrates 100 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,207 hours in all.
About as long, on the Kids shelf
2,554 Kids 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 Sands of Shark Island is book 2 of Alexander McCall Smith's School Ship Tobermory series: a 5.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Nicholas Guy Smith, released July 11, 2017, on the Kids shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nicholas Guy Smith
- Released
- July 11, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Kids
- Series
- School Ship Tobermory #2
- ISBN
- 9781524776121
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sands of Shark Island as an audiobook?
The Sands of Shark Island runs 5.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.8 hours.
Is The Sands of Shark Island free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Sands of Shark Island?
The Sands of Shark Island is narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith.