Gareth Armstrong: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Gareth Armstrong narrates 48 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 540.8 hours in all; the median one runs 9.9 hours.

48titles

541listening hrs

9.9median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 48
Total listening time: 540.8 hrs
Median length: 9.9 hrs
Release years: 2009 to 2026
Longest: Queen Mary: The Official Biography (24.6 hrs)
Shortest: Slipstream (4.1 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 9

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
History & Culture	6	13%
Police & Detective	6	13%
World	5	10%
Europe	5	10%
Historical (Fiction)	4	8%
Classics (Literature)	4	8%
Fiction	3	6%
Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature)	3	6%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Gareth Armstrong on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Julia Barrie	5
Sandra Duncan	5
Julian Rhind-Tutt	2
Michael Fenner	2
Luke Thompson	2
Jane Collingwood	2
Stephen Thorne	2
Rula Lenska	2
Irene Sutcliffe	1
Susan Sheridan	1
Jeff Harding	1
Dawn French	1

Audiobooks narrated by Gareth Armstrong

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	Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups	Ben Holden	12.7 hrs
2	Oh Dear Silvia: The gloriously heartwarming novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Because of You	Dawn French	9.4 hrs
3	Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter	Antonia Fraser	11.2 hrs
4	Slipstream	Alan Judd	4.1 hrs
5	Wordy	Simon Schama	13.6 hrs
6	The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels	Janice Hallett	10.5 hrs
7	Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)	Joanne Harris	13.4 hrs
8	Night Music: Nocturnes Volume Two	John Connolly	13.9 hrs
9	The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest	Father John Gerard	6.9 hrs
10	Holmes and Moriarty: The new official Sherlock Holmes novel from Sunday Times bestselling author	Gareth Rubin	8.6 hrs
11	The Cellist of Sarajevo	Steven Galloway	5.4 hrs
12	Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant	Tracy Borman	15.2 hrs
13	The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood	Irving Finkel	9.1 hrs
14	Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England	Catherine Bailey	15.3 hrs
15	The Italians	John Hooper	9.8 hrs
16	The Glass of Time	Michael Cox	20.1 hrs
17	Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy	A.N. Wilson	13.6 hrs
18	More Bloody Horowitz	Anthony Horowitz	6.6 hrs
19	Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty	Catherine Bailey	15.2 hrs
20	Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor: Seven BBC Radio Crime Dramas	Michael Mcstay	8.2 hrs
21	The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs	Tsuyoshi Hasegawa	13.9 hrs
22	The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization	Owen Rees	9.1 hrs
23	Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King	Penny Junor	13.5 hrs
24	Peaches for Father Francis	Joanne Harris	13.5 hrs
25	Would You Kill the Fat Man?	David Edmonds	5 hrs
26	The Tragic Muse	Henry James	20.1 hrs
27	Queen Mary: The Official Biography	James Pope-Hennessy	24.6 hrs
28	The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: A New Morte D’Arthur	John Matthews	17.4 hrs
29	The Dead Woman of Deptford: A Victorian London Murder Mystery	Ann Granger	8.7 hrs
30	The Murderer's Apprentice: A Victorian London Murder Mystery	Ann Granger	9.1 hrs
31	Based on a True Story	Anthony Holden	11.7 hrs
32	Agent Twister: John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation – A True Story	Keely Winstone	10.1 hrs
33	The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron	Andrew Roberts	16.7 hrs
34	The Truth-Seeker’s Wife: A Victorian London Murder Mystery	Ann Granger	8.7 hrs
35	The Great Book of King Arthur: and His Knights of the Round Table	John Matthews	17.4 hrs
36	PROSTrATE CANCER: The Misunderstood Male Killer	Graham Sharpe	10.4 hrs
37	Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World	Michael Spence	8.6 hrs
38	Unwritten Law: A BBC Radio True Crime Series	Rib Davis	5.9 hrs
39	The Old Rogue of Limehouse: A Victorian London Murder Mystery	Ann Granger	7.9 hrs
40	Mystery in the Making: 18 Short Stories of Malevolence and Murder	Ann Granger	17 hrs
41	The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life	Alfonso Martinez Arias	10.3 hrs
42	Holmes and Moriarty	Gareth Rubin	8.6 hrs
43	Chimera & other thrillers: Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas	Stephen Gallagher	8.9 hrs
44	The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past	Owen Rees	9.1 hrs
45	The Solitude of Thomas Cave	Georgina Harding	5.9 hrs
46	The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg	Tim Birkhead	7.3 hrs
47	The Coming Darkness	Greg Mosse	9.8 hrs
48	The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys	Jack Jewers	9 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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