David Timson: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, David Timson narrates 91 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 1,047.5 hours in all; the median one runs 9.9 hours.

91titles

1,048listening hrs

9.9median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 91
Total listening time: 1,047.5 hrs
Median length: 9.9 hrs
Release years: 1997 to 2026
Longest: The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga (38.1 hrs)
Shortest: The Great Poets (1.3 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 10

Shelf mix

Where David Timson's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Classics (Literature)	33	36%
Police & Detective	19	21%
Ancient Civilizations	7	8%
World	5	5%
Europe	5	5%
Poetry	4	4%
Literary Fiction	4	4%
History & Culture	4	4%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with David Timson on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Lucy Scott	3
Georgina Sutton	3
Jonathan Keeble	3
Andrew Marr	2
Heathcote Williams	2
Nicolas Soames	2
Penelope Rawlins	2
Nicholas Boulton	2
Mark Billingham	1
Crawford Logan	1
Peter Egan	1
Martin Jarvis	1

Audiobooks narrated by David Timson

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

#	Title	Author	Length
1	A History of the World	Andrew Marr	26.5 hrs
2	The Floating Admiral	Agatha Christie	10.3 hrs
3	The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Volume I	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	4.7 hrs
4	The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Volume II	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	5.3 hrs
5	Christmas Stories	Charles Dickens	14.2 hrs
6	The Templar Revelation	Clive Prince	20.8 hrs
7	Jason and the Argonauts	Apollonios Of Rhodes	6.8 hrs
8	Middle Way	Jinananda	4 hrs
9	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen	Paul Torday	8.6 hrs
10	The Wisdom of Psychopaths	Kevin Dutton	8.8 hrs
11	The Innocence of Father Brown, Vol. 1	G.K. Chesterton	4.7 hrs
12	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume III	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.6 hrs
13	The Complete Angler	Charles Cotton	9.3 hrs
14	Flipnosis	Kevin Dutton	10 hrs
15	The Meaning of Night	Michael Cox	22.8 hrs
16	Ghost Stories	Charles Dickens	16.3 hrs
17	Lanny	Max Porter	4.6 hrs
18	The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga	John Galsworthy	38.1 hrs
19	The Histories	Tacitus	10.8 hrs
20	Dangerous Liaisons	Choderlos de Laclos	16.1 hrs
21	Wuthering Heights (Educational Edition)	Francis Gilbert	15.6 hrs
22	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 6	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.3 hrs
23	Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow)	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	6.7 hrs
24	The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45	Ian Kershaw	18 hrs
25	The Meaning of Night: A Confession	Michael Cox	22.2 hrs
26	The Golden Ass	David Timson	9.1 hrs
27	Quite A Good Time To Be Born	David Lodge	15.5 hrs
28	The Unlucky Lottery	Håkan Nesser	9.3 hrs
29	Hour of the Wolf	Håkan Nesser	9.8 hrs
30	The Persian Expedition	Xenophon	9.3 hrs
31	Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece	Paul Cartledge	11.5 hrs
32	The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 2: A Modern Comedy	John Galsworthy	34.4 hrs
33	The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 3 End of the Chapter	John Galsworthy	30.9 hrs
34	Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects	Toby Wilkinson	13.5 hrs
35	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.7 hrs
36	The Life of Mozart	Perry Keenlyside	3.7 hrs
37	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume IV	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.6 hrs
38	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume V	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.7 hrs
39	The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Volume I	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.5 hrs
40	The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Volume II	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	3.9 hrs
41	The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Volume III	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	4.6 hrs
42	The Innocence of Father Brown Volume 2	G.K. Chesterton	4.6 hrs
43	The Great Poets	Robert Browning	1.3 hrs
44	Edwin Drood	Charles Dickens	10.5 hrs
45	Memoirs of My Life	Edward Gibbon	6.5 hrs
46	Jacques and His Master: A Play	Milan Kundera	1.9 hrs
47	The Reckoning	James McGee	13.7 hrs
48	The Mystery of Tunnel 51: Book 1 in Wallace of the Secret Service Series	Alexander Wilson	10.3 hrs
49	The Devil's Cocktail: Book 2 in Wallace of the Secret Service Series	Alexander Wilson	13 hrs
50	Wallace of the Secret Service: Book 3 in Wallace of the Secret Service Series	Alexander Wilson	11.3 hrs
51	Get Wallace!: Wallace of the Secret Service, Book 4	Alexander Wilson	9.5 hrs
52	The Unknown Universe	Stuart Clark	8.8 hrs
53	The Blooding	James McGee	17.4 hrs
54	Rebellion	James McGee	17.3 hrs
55	The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder King James I	Benjamin Woolley	12.3 hrs
56	Writer's Luck	David Lodge	14.3 hrs
57	The Mind's Eye	Håkan Nesser	7.2 hrs
58	Borkmann's Point	Håkan Nesser	8.1 hrs
59	The Return	Håkan Nesser	8 hrs
60	Woman with Birthmark	Håkan Nesser	8.3 hrs
61	The Inspector and Silence	Håkan Nesser	9.2 hrs
62	The Weeping Girl	Håkan Nesser	10.1 hrs
63	The Strangler's Honeymoon	Håkan Nesser	16.1 hrs
64	The G File	Håkan Nesser	14.9 hrs
65	The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I, now a major TV series	Benjamin Woolley	12.3 hrs
66	Robinson Crusoe: And His Farther Adventures	Daniel Defoe	1.9 hrs
67	Ask a Policeman	Helen Simpson	10.2 hrs
68	Annals	Tacitus	18.2 hrs
69	How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis	Simon May	9.9 hrs
70	Essays	Francis Bacon	6.3 hrs
71	The Interpretation of Dreams	Artemidorus	10.8 hrs
72	Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb	Toby Wilkinson	12.6 hrs
73	The Gallic War	Carolyn Hammond	9.8 hrs
74	The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period: Volume 1: Timaeus, Critias, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus	Benjamin Jowett	10.6 hrs
75	The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin	Maurice Leblanc	7.8 hrs
76	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Educational Edition)	Francis Gilbert	9.2 hrs
77	The Love Poems	Ovid	6.6 hrs
78	The Fable of the Bees	Bernard Mandeville	22.5 hrs
79	The Life of Charlotte Brontë	Elizabeth Gaskell	19.5 hrs
80	Edgar Wallace: A Classic BBC Radio Crime Collection: Four Full-cast Dramatisations	Edgar Wallace	8.1 hrs
81	The Susan Hill BBC Radio Drama Collection: 14 Full-Cast Dramas	Susan Hill	15.5 hrs
82	Monsieur Lecoq	Émile Gaboriau	30.3 hrs
83	Malice Aforethought	Francis Iles	10.6 hrs
84	The Crystal Stopper	Maurice Leblanc	9.5 hrs
85	The Piccadilly Murder	Anthony Berkeley	9.3 hrs
86	Not to Be Taken	Anthony Berkeley	6.7 hrs
87	The Satires	Juvenal	5.7 hrs
88	Trial and Error	Anthony Berkeley	13.2 hrs
89	The Teeth of the Tiger	Maurice Leblanc	15.7 hrs
90	The Golden Triangle: The Return of Arsène Lupin	Maurice Leblanc	11.2 hrs
91	The Complete Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman; The Black Mask; A Thief in the Night; Mr. Justice Raffles	E.W. Hornung	27.1 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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