The Songlines: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Songlines runs 9.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Hugh Fraser (about 6.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 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 67% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Hugh Fraser
Hugh Fraser narrates 146 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 845 hours in all.
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles: The First Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- After the Funeral: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,859 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- How to Be an Antiracist
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
- Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
Other recordings
- The 2019 recording read by James Langton runs about the same length (9.6 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
The Songlines is an audiobook by Bruce Chatwin: a 9.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Hugh Fraser, released October 24, 2019, on the Essays & Anthologies and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Hugh Fraser
- Released
- October 24, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies, Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781473574595
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Songlines as an audiobook?
The Songlines runs 9.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.4 hours.
Is The Songlines free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Songlines?
The Songlines is narrated by Hugh Fraser.