John Sackville: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, John Sackville narrates 156 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 1,342.1 hours in all; the median one runs 8.7 hours.

156titles

1,342listening hrs

8.7median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 156
Total listening time: 1,342.1 hrs
Median length: 8.7 hrs
Release years: 2009 to 2026
Longest: Normandy ‘44: The epic Sunday Times bestseller (24.3 hrs)
Shortest: How to Walk (1.1 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 5

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
World	22	14%
Mindfulness & Meditation	15	10%
Medicine & Naturopathy	15	10%
Current Affairs, Law, & Politics	14	9%
Military (History)	14	9%
Literary Fiction	11	7%
Europe	11	7%
Lessons in Philosophy	11	7%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with John Sackville on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Paul McCartney	2
Amy Noble	2
Mary McCartney	2
Barry Sloane	2
Stella McCartney	2
Martin Jarvis	1
Anneke Wills	1
Helen Baxendale	1
Kristin Atherton	1
Finlay Robertson	1
Anne Reid	1
Laura Aikman	1

Audiobooks narrated by John Sackville

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 Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes	Stephen Hawking	7.3 hrs
2	Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams	Matthew Walker	13.5 hrs
3	The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller	Jeremy Dronfield	11.8 hrs
4	The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources	Jack Farchy	12.1 hrs
5	Serial Killers of Mexico: Chilling Stories of Evil Buried Beneath the Narco Drug Wars	Wensley Clarkson	7.2 hrs
6	Beartown: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Friends and Anxious People	Fredrik Backman	13.7 hrs
7	Frankissstein: A Love Story	Jeanette Winterson	7.2 hrs
8	Instructions for the Working Day	Joanna Campbell	7.3 hrs
9	The Miracle Of Mindfulness: The Classic Guide to Meditation from the Buddhist Monk and World’s Most Revered Zen Master	Thich Nhat Hanh	4.2 hrs
10	Us Against You: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Friends	Fredrik Backman	13.8 hrs
11	Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War	Laurence Rees	18.3 hrs
12	The Racer: Life on the Road as a Pro Cyclist	David Millar	8.8 hrs
13	Normandy ‘44: The epic Sunday Times bestseller	James Holland	24.3 hrs
14	Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite	Andrew Jenkinson	10.7 hrs
15	Panic Room	Robert Goddard	12.8 hrs
16	Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles - Resistance	Steve Lyons	1.2 hrs
17	Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History	Lewis Dartnell	9.2 hrs
18	Small Is Beautiful: The classic call for human-scale economics which is now more relevant than ever	E F Schumacher	10.3 hrs
19	The Circadian Code: Lose weight, supercharge your energy and sleep well every night	Satchin Panda	8.9 hrs
20	Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner	Franny Moyle	17.8 hrs
21	Mindfulness: 25 Ways to Live in the Moment Through Art	Christophe Andre	5 hrs
22	Metamorphoses: Penguin Classics	Ovid	18.5 hrs
23	Auschwitz	Laurence Rees	13.2 hrs
24	From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey	Yeshe Losal Rinpoche	8.4 hrs
25	The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History	Laurence Rees	14.3 hrs
26	Alec	William Di Canzio	9.8 hrs
27	The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World	David Robson	8.8 hrs
28	The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power	Niall Ferguson	16.1 hrs
29	How to See: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
30	The Light that Failed: A Reckoning	Ivan Krastev	9 hrs
31	The Dalai Lama: The Biography	Alexander Norman	13.7 hrs
32	How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures	Robin Dunbar	8.1 hrs
33	The Paris Affair	Melanie Hudson	9.9 hrs
34	The Holocaust: An Unfinished History	Dan Stone	10 hrs
35	The Perfect Psychopath	Alice Hunter	9.5 hrs
36	The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History. The Sunday Times bestseller	Laurence Rees	14.3 hrs
37	Crisis: the action-packed Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller	Frank Gardner	14.3 hrs
38	Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating	Charles Spence	10 hrs
39	The Art of Stopping Time	Pedram Shojai	5.9 hrs
40	Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History	Lewis Dartnell	9.2 hrs
41	How to Eat: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.2 hrs
42	Complete Stories	Kingsley Amis	18.7 hrs
43	Metropolis: A history of cities - humankind’s greatest invention.	Ben Wilson	17.1 hrs
44	Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention	Ben Wilson	17.1 hrs
45	A Short History of World War II	DK	18.4 hrs
46	How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine	Pauline Tremain	8.2 hrs
47	Fighter: Penguin Modern Classics	Len Deighton	9.7 hrs
48	How To Live When A Loved One Dies	Thich Nhat Hanh	2.6 hrs
49	Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England	Richard Beard	8.1 hrs
50	Homelands: A Personal History of Europe	Timothy Garton Ash	13.6 hrs
51	Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop	Martin Puchner	10.6 hrs
52	How to Eat	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.2 hrs
53	Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter	N. T. Wright	8 hrs
54	How to Walk	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.1 hrs
55	The Book of Secret Wisdom: The prophetic record of human destiny and evolution	Zinovya Dushkova	9.1 hrs
56	How to Live When a Loved One Dies: Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss	Thich Nhat Hanh	2.6 hrs
57	Perspectives: A bold and funny Renaissance thriller from the bestselling author of HHhH	Laurent Binet	7.8 hrs
58	A Beautiful Game: The remarkable final autobiography from the late football manager and sports legend	Bengt Berg	5.2 hrs
59	Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run	Paul McCartney	13.2 hrs
60	The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place – SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING	Michael J. Warren	8 hrs
61	Noonday	Pat Barker	9.8 hrs
62	Dear Amy: The Sunday Times Bestselling Psychological Thriller	Helen Callaghan	10.1 hrs
63	Finders Keepers	Belinda Bauer	10.1 hrs
64	Confessions of a Male Nurse	Michael Alexander	7.1 hrs
65	Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew	Richard Davenport-Hines	14.3 hrs
66	House of the Hanged	Mark Mills	9.2 hrs
67	Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life	Mark Kishlansky	3.5 hrs
68	Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements	Hugh Aldersey-Williams	13.6 hrs
69	How To Walk: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.1 hrs
70	How to Sit: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.1 hrs
71	How to Relax: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.3 hrs
72	How To Fight: A Mindful Buddhist Guide	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
73	Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation	Colin Grant	9.1 hrs
74	How to Save a Life	S.D. Robertson	8.7 hrs
75	That Uncertain Feeling	Kingsley Amis	7.8 hrs
76	Stanley And The Women	Kingsley Amis	8.9 hrs
77	Armadillo	William Boyd	11 hrs
78	The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins	Tom Higham	9.1 hrs
79	Modern Spirituality: A Practical Guide to the Heart of Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Art of Healing	Benjamin Decker	4.5 hrs
80	On Wanting to Change	Adam Phillips	3.8 hrs
81	The Unfakeable Code®: Take Back Control, Lead Authentically and Live Freely on Your Terms	Tony Jeton Selimi	7.1 hrs
82	The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution	Peter Bradley	11.2 hrs
83	Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity	Ben Ramalingam	9.1 hrs
84	Land of Mercy: A Tale of the Three Jewels of Tibet	Fan Wen	19.3 hrs
85	The Sleep of Reason	Mark Rowley	10.8 hrs
86	Urban Jungle: Wilding the City, from the author of Metropolis	Ben Wilson	9.5 hrs
87	The Being Human: How our biology shaped our history	Lewis Dartnell	9.9 hrs
88	Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City	Ben Wilson	9.5 hrs
89	The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins	Tom Higham	9.1 hrs
90	Saint Francis: A Biography of a Man from Assisi Who Embraced Simplicity, Poverty, and Devotion to God	Robert West	6.6 hrs
91	The Innocent One	Lisa Ballantyne	8.8 hrs
92	Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth	Nigel Jones	20.8 hrs
93	The Tap Dancer	Andrew Barrow	6.7 hrs
94	Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever	Jonathan Wilson	20.6 hrs
95	The Naked Neanderthal	Ludovic Slimak	6.2 hrs
96	How to Eat (And Still Lose Weight): A Science-backed Guide to Nutrition and Health	Andrew Jenkinson	7 hrs
97	How to Sit	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.1 hrs
98	How to Love	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.3 hrs
99	How to Relax	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.3 hrs
100	The Book of Parables. Wisdom from Shambhala	Zinovya Dushkova	2.2 hrs
101	The Murder Room	Lisa Stone	7.8 hrs
102	How to Fight	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
103	Keir Starmer: The Biography	Tom Baldwin	13.7 hrs
104	How to See	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
105	The Man Who Didn't Burn	Ian Moore	8.4 hrs
106	Lotus of the Fiery Love (The Legend of the Ascending Goddess)	Zinovya Dushkova	3.1 hrs
107	How to Focus	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.6 hrs
108	How to Smile	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
109	How to Connect	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.5 hrs
110	Revelations of the Sun	Zinovya Dushkova	2 hrs
111	The Man in the Moon	Andrew Barrow	5.3 hrs
112	Count Luna and Baron Bagge: Two Stories	Alexander Lernet-Holenia	7.2 hrs
113	The Secret Book of Dzyan: Unveiling the Hidden Truth About the Oldest Manuscript in the World	Zinovya Dushkova	1.5 hrs
114	Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion	Nicholas Spencer	16.3 hrs
115	The Intimate Aloud	Zinovya Dushkova	1.7 hrs
116	How to Listen	Thich Nhat Hanh	1.3 hrs
117	The Teaching of the Heart: Volume I — Leaves of Maitreya’s Garden. The Call of the Heart	Zinovya Dushkova	3.8 hrs
118	The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature	Ludovic Slimak	6.2 hrs
119	Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness	Adam Weymouth	10.5 hrs
120	The Teaching of the Heart: Volume II — The Illumination of the Heart: Leaves of the Garden of M.	Zinovya Dushkova	7 hrs
121	The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves	John Duncan	12.5 hrs
122	How Wars End: A Hopeful History of Making Peace	Jan Van Aken	7.7 hrs
123	Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025	Adam Weymouth	10.4 hrs
124	The Teaching of the Heart: Volume III - The Heart of the Community	Zinovya Dushkova	6.1 hrs
125	Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run - The must-read autobiographical account of McCartney's musical reinvention after The Beatles	Paul McCartney	13.2 hrs
126	Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc	Hugh Aldersey-Williams	13.6 hrs
127	A Private Man: ‘A thrilling love story of intellect and passion’ The Observer, best debut novelists of 2026	Stephanie Sy-Quia	7 hrs
128	The Defector: The untold story of the KGB agent who saved MI5 and changed the Cold War - 'Reads like le Carré', Robert Verkaik	Richard Kerbaj	10 hrs
129	The Defector: The Untold Story of the KGB Agent who Exposed the CIA and Saved MI5	Richard Kerbaj	9.8 hrs
130	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Retelling	Tanya Landman	1.5 hrs
131	Gemini and Mercury Remastered	Andy Saunders	8.4 hrs
132	How Not To Be Stupid: The Transformative Power of Independent Thinking	Igor Sibaldi	3.8 hrs
133	The Teaching of the Heart: Volume IV - The Heart of Infinity	Zinovya Dushkova	7.7 hrs
134	Churchill’s Queen: The Remarkable Friendship That Shaped Our Age	Nigel Fletcher	10.3 hrs
135	A Private Man	Stephanie Sy-Quia	7 hrs
136	Your Money and Your Mind: Discover the real route to financial freedom	Adam Cockerham	4.5 hrs
137	Into the Heart of Isaiah: The Meaning and Message of Isaiah 40-55	N. T. Wright	7.1 hrs
138	The Teaching of the Heart: Volume V - The Fiery Hierarchy	Zinovya Dushkova	5.4 hrs
139	Dead Behind the Eyes: A slickly plotted murder mystery set in France's Loire	Ian Moore	8.8 hrs
140	A Very French Corpse	Ian Moore	9.3 hrs
141	Scroll Zombies: the Science-based guide to fighting doom scrolling	Sven Rollenhagen	4.1 hrs
142	Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain	Victoria Taylor	11 hrs
143	Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird	Tim Birkhead	7.6 hrs
144	Bill Edrich: The Many Lives of England's Cricket Great FINANCIAL TIMES – BEST BOOKS OF 2024	Leo McKinstry	10.1 hrs
145	White Hot: The Inside Story of England Cricket’s Double World Champions	Matt Roller	7.7 hrs
146	The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife - A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR	Tim Birkhead	6.6 hrs
147	The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance	Erik Varden	4.3 hrs
148	Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses	Erik Varden	4.9 hrs
149	Battle for the Island Kingdom: England's Destiny 1000-1066	Don Hollway	15.7 hrs
150	Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature	John Vidal	10.5 hrs
151	Jesus of Nazareth	Pope Benedict Xvi	12 hrs
152	We Are Movement: A User's Guide to the Human Body	Wayne McGregor	8.4 hrs
153	Byzantium and the Crusades	Jonathan Harris	11.2 hrs
154	North Korea: A History	Michael J. Seth	11.4 hrs
155	About Looking	John Berger	6 hrs
156	Across a Frontier: Selected Essays: chosen by Teju Cole	John Berger	8.5 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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