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Alexander McCall Smith: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Alexander McCall Smith narrates 11 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 23.4 hours in all; the median one runs 1 hours.

11titles
23listening hrs
1median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated
11
Total listening time
23.4 hrs
Median length
1 hrs
Release years
2008 to 2022
Longest
Charles Dickens: A BBC Biography (8.2 hrs)
Shortest
Akimbo and the Snakes (0.8 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators
1

Shelf mix

Where Alexander McCall Smith's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelfTitlesShare
Kids545%
Action & Adventure (Kids)327%
Literature19%
Biography & Memoir19%
Biology & Chemistry19%
Poetry19%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Alexander McCall Smith on the same recordings.

NarratorShared titles
Claire Tomalin1
Armando Iannucci1
Romesh Gunesekera1
Sam West1
Tess Hadley1
Melvyn Bragg1
A. L. Kennedy1

Audiobooks narrated by Alexander McCall Smith

Every title, with its store running time. Ordered by popularity on the store (rating counts, used only for ordering and never shown).

#TitleAuthorLength
1Akimbo And The LionsAlexander McCall Smith1 hrs
2Akimbo and the ElephantsAlexander McCall Smith0.9 hrs
3Max and Maddy and the Chocolate Money MysteryAlexander McCall Smith1 hrs
4Charles Dickens: A BBC BiographyTess Hadley8.2 hrs
5Akimbo and the SnakesAlexander McCall Smith0.8 hrs
6Akimbo and the Crocodile ManAlexander McCall Smith0.8 hrs
7The Bursting Balloons MysteryAlexander McCall Smith1 hrs
8The Chocolate Money MysteryAlexander McCall Smith1 hrs
9Max and Maddy and the Bursting Balloons MysteryAlexander McCall Smith1 hrs
10Creating Humans: Ethical Questions Where Reproduction and Science CollideAlexander McCall Smith5.6 hrs
11In a Time of DistanceAlexander McCall Smith2.2 hrs

Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

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