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When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

When Will There Be Good News?: Audiobook

Book 3 of the Jackson Brodie series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the When Will There Be Good News? audiobook runs 11.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Ellen Archer (about 7.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.5listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2008released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish When Will There Be Good News? at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day23 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 11.5 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 8,235 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

1,215 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

When Will There Be Good News? is book 3 of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series: a 11.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Ellen Archer, released September 24, 2008, on the Police & Detective and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.5 hrs
Narrated by
Ellen Archer
Released
September 24, 2008
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Drama, Literary Fiction
Series
Jackson Brodie #3
ISBN
9781600244537

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the When Will There Be Good News? audiobook?

When Will There Be Good News? runs 11.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.7 hours.

Is the When Will There Be Good News? audiobook free?

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

Who narrates When Will There Be Good News??

When Will There Be Good News? is narrated by Ellen Archer.

Is When Will There Be Good News? worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.7 hours, saving 3.8 hours.