Simon Prebble: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Simon Prebble narrates 258 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 2,739.1 hours in all; the median one runs 10.4 hours.

258titles

2,739listening hrs

10.4median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 258
Total listening time: 2,739.1 hrs
Median length: 10.4 hrs
Release years: 2000 to 2024
Longest: The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon (35.6 hrs)
Shortest: Sherlock Holmes: The Griffin Collection (1.2 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 17

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Police & Detective	75	29%
Historical (Fiction)	36	14%
Literary Fiction	25	10%
Mystery, Thriller & Horror	21	8%
Classics (Literature)	17	7%
Historical (Romance)	14	5%
Fiction	12	5%
Espionage	10	4%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Simon Prebble on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Simon Vance	5
George Guidall	4
Davina Porter	4
Graeme Malcolm	4
Gerard Doyle	3
Jenny Sterlin	3
Stefan Rudnicki	3
Alan Sklar	3
Eric Conger	3
Bronson Pinchot	2
Sean Runnette	2
Tom Weiner	2

Audiobooks narrated by Simon Prebble

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	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke	32 hrs
2	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	Alison Weir	22.5 hrs
3	The Picture of Dorian Gray, with eBook	Oscar Wilde	8 hrs
4	Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II	Vicki Constantine Croke	9.8 hrs
5	Devil's Bride	Stephanie Laurens	15.5 hrs
6	The Universe in a Nutshell	Stephen Hawking	3.5 hrs
7	As a Man Thinketh and from Poverty to Power	James Allen	4.5 hrs
8	Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius	Marc J. Seifer	22.3 hrs
9	The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington	Jennet Conant	11.7 hrs
10	A Rake's Vow	Stephanie Laurens	14.1 hrs
11	The Turn of the Screw	Henry James	4.9 hrs
12	An Unwilling Bride	Jo Beverley	12.5 hrs
13	Scandal's Bride	Stephanie Laurens	13.9 hrs
14	Lady of Milkweed Manor	Julie Klassen	12.3 hrs
15	The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature	Matt Ridley	12.9 hrs
16	The Gun Seller	Hugh Laurie	10.7 hrs
17	A Rogue's Proposal	Stephanie Laurens	14 hrs
18	The Untamed Bride	Stephanie Laurens	11.4 hrs
19	Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters	Matt Ridley	12.3 hrs
20	King Solomon's Mines	Henry Rider Haggard	9 hrs
21	When the Music's Over: An Inspector Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	15 hrs
22	Raven's Gate	Anthony Horowitz	6.9 hrs
23	To the Hilt	Dick Francis	9.8 hrs
24	On the Beach	Nevil Shute	9.4 hrs
25	All About Love	Stephanie Laurens	14.1 hrs
26	A Secret Love	Stephanie Laurens	13.6 hrs
27	Point Blank	Anthony Horowitz	5.7 hrs
28	The Elusive Bride	Stephanie Laurens	14.3 hrs
29	The Brazen Bride	Stephanie Laurens	13.6 hrs
30	Mortality	Christopher Hitchens	2.5 hrs
31	The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime	Jasper Fforde	11.7 hrs
32	Break In	Dick Francis	9.5 hrs
33	1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West	Roger Crowley	11 hrs
34	Proof	Dick Francis	9.8 hrs
35	On A Wicked Dawn	Stephanie Laurens	14.9 hrs
36	The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World	Niall Ferguson	11.3 hrs
37	The Black Ascot	Charles Todd	10.9 hrs
38	The Boys from Brazil	Ira Levin	8.6 hrs
39	Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison	Michel Foucault	13.2 hrs
40	The Devil's Heiress	Jo Beverley	12.2 hrs
41	On A Wild Night	Stephanie Laurens	15.1 hrs
42	Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	11.1 hrs
43	Corduroy Mansions	Alexander McCall Smith	11.6 hrs
44	The Odyssey, with eBook	Homer	11 hrs
45	All About Passion	Stephanie Laurens	14.1 hrs
46	The Dragon's Bride	Jo Beverley	10.7 hrs
47	Reflex	Dick Francis	9.2 hrs
48	Scorpia	Anthony Horowitz	8.1 hrs
49	Skeleton Key	Anthony Horowitz	7 hrs
50	A Divided Loyalty	Charles Todd	11.2 hrs
51	Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural	Will Self	5.2 hrs
52	The Coral Thief	Rebecca Stott	9 hrs
53	The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice	Christopher Hitchens	2 hrs
54	Proof of Guilt: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	10.4 hrs
55	It Happened One Season	Jacquie D'alessandro	13.3 hrs
56	Undermajordomo Minor	Patrick DeWitt	7.8 hrs
57	The Promise in a Kiss	Stephanie Laurens	9.9 hrs
58	Never Say Die	Anthony Horowitz	8.9 hrs
59	84, Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	1.9 hrs
60	Careless Love: A DCI Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	10.4 hrs
61	The Italian Secretary	Caleb Carr	7 hrs
62	The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	6.5 hrs
63	The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	5.3 hrs
64	The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories	Susanna Clarke	7.1 hrs
65	Eagle Strike	Anthony Horowitz	6.6 hrs
66	The Child in Time	Ian McEwan	8.8 hrs
67	Ark Angel	Anthony Horowitz	7.9 hrs
68	The Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth	13.4 hrs
69	The Reckless Bride	Stephanie Laurens	14.9 hrs
70	Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens	Christopher Hitchens	29 hrs
71	The Confession: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	10.6 hrs
72	A Single Man	Christopher Isherwood	4.7 hrs
73	Last Orders	Graham Swift	8.5 hrs
74	One Night in Winter	Simon Sebag Montefiore	13.4 hrs
75	The Gate Keeper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	10.2 hrs
76	Churchill	Paul Johnson	4.7 hrs
77	A Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	4.2 hrs
78	Hard Times, with eBook	Charles Dickens	10.5 hrs
79	No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton	Christopher Hitchens	5 hrs
80	No Shred of Evidence: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	11.5 hrs
81	10 Lb. Penalty	Dick Francis	7.5 hrs
82	Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne	Christopher Andersen	10 hrs
83	Crocodile Tears	Anthony Horowitz	9.6 hrs
84	The Marriage Spell	Mary Jo Putney	11.3 hrs
85	Driving Force	Dick Francis	10.5 hrs
86	Many Rivers to Cross: A DCI Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	11.6 hrs
87	Straight	Dick Francis	11.1 hrs
88	The Accidental	Ali Smith	9.9 hrs
89	All the Colors of Darkness	Peter Robinson	11.9 hrs
90	A Matter of Justice	Charles Todd	10.7 hrs
91	The Sign of Four: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	5 hrs
92	The Loved One	Evelyn Waugh	3.5 hrs
93	Sword of Honor	Evelyn Waugh	24.5 hrs
94	Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying	Harold Welzer	14.1 hrs
95	Hunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery	Charles Todd	10.4 hrs
96	Goebbels: A Biography	Peter Longerich	28.9 hrs
97	Friend of the Devil	Peter Robinson	13.4 hrs
98	A Lonely Death	Charles Todd	11 hrs
99	Skeleton Hill	Peter Lovesey	11 hrs
100	Last Act in Palmyra: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	13.5 hrs
101	Twice Shy	Dick Francis	10.2 hrs
102	Banker	Dick Francis	10.1 hrs
103	Another One Goes Tonight	Peter Lovesey	11.3 hrs
104	Oblivion	Anthony Horowitz	20.4 hrs
105	The Taste of Innocence	Stephanie Laurens	15.3 hrs
106	Dracula The Un-Dead	Dacre Stoker	13.7 hrs
107	Alex Rider: Secret Weapon: Seven Untold Adventures from the Life of a Teenaged Spy	Anthony Horowitz	7.8 hrs
108	The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon	Alexandre Dumas	35.6 hrs
109	The Egyptologist	Arthur Phillips	16.2 hrs
110	The Red Door	Charles Todd	10.8 hrs
111	Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815	Charles Esdaile	25 hrs
112	Wife of the Gods	Kwei Quartey	9.5 hrs
113	The Trial of Henry Kissinger	Christopher Hitchens	5 hrs
114	My Week with Marilyn	Colin Clark	3.7 hrs
115	Shadows in Bronze	Lindsey Davis	14 hrs
116	Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	10.2 hrs
117	Diamond Solitaire	Peter Lovesey	10.7 hrs
118	The Iron Hand of Mars	Lindsey Davis	10.8 hrs
119	Poseidon’s Gold	Lindsey Davis	12.1 hrs
120	Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays	Stephen Hawking	4.5 hrs
121	Mistress Anne	Carolly Erickson	9.3 hrs
122	Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One	John Gray, Ph.D.	8.8 hrs
123	To Rescue A Rogue	Jo Beverley	11.7 hrs
124	Timescape	Gregory Benford	15.7 hrs
125	Lady Beware	Jo Beverley	10.9 hrs
126	Stolen Magic	Mary Jo Putney	12.6 hrs
127	Bolt	Dick Francis	8.5 hrs
128	Fox Evil	Minette Walters	12.4 hrs
129	The Ice House	Minette Walters	10.2 hrs
130	English Passengers	Matthew Kneale	20.5 hrs
131	The House Sitter	Peter Lovesey	11.3 hrs
132	The Summons	Peter Lovesey	10.8 hrs
133	What Price Love?	Stephanie Laurens	15.1 hrs
134	Odd Partners: An Anthology	William Kent Krueger	13 hrs
135	Where the Heart Leads	Stephanie Laurens	14.8 hrs
136	Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations	Alexander McCall Smith	7.1 hrs
137	Eight for Eternity: A John the Lord Chamberlain Mystery	Eric Mayer	9.4 hrs
138	Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	12.2 hrs
139	Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955	Barbara Leaming	10.9 hrs
140	Classic Horror Stories To Chill Your Bones	Nick Sampson	5.2 hrs
141	Utopia	Sir Thomas More	4 hrs
142	His Last Bow: Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	7 hrs
143	Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African American Explorer of the American South	Robert Goodwin	12 hrs
144	Rosa	Jonathan Rabb	22.6 hrs
145	The Winter Pony	Iain Lawrence	7.1 hrs
146	A Conspiracy of Friends	Alexander McCall Smith	8.2 hrs
147	Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	12.9 hrs
148	Not My Blood	Barbara Cleverly	10.4 hrs
149	The Executioner's Heart	George Mann	9.5 hrs
150	The Song of Names	Norman Lebrecht	9.8 hrs
151	A Christmas Hope	Anne Perry	4.2 hrs
152	Children of the Revolution: An Inspector Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	12.6 hrs
153	All That Is Solid Melts into Air	Darragh McKeon	11.7 hrs
154	A Pale Horse	Charles Todd	11.7 hrs
155	In the Dark Places: An Inspector Banks Novel	Peter Robinson	12 hrs
156	The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights	Faye Kellerman	9.3 hrs
157	The Echo	Minette Walters	12.5 hrs
158	A Dying Light in Corduba: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	12.7 hrs
159	Two for the Lions: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	12.1 hrs
160	Evil Star	Anthony Horowitz	9 hrs
161	In In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus	Various Authors	30.3 hrs
162	One Virgin Too Many: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11.1 hrs
163	The Jupiter Myth: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11.2 hrs
164	Nightrise	Anthony Horowitz	10.2 hrs
165	Necropolis	Anthony Horowitz	10.3 hrs
166	1939: Countdown to War	Richard Overy	3.4 hrs
167	Felicia's Journey	William Trevor	8.6 hrs
168	Shadow and Light	Jonathan Rabb	11.9 hrs
169	Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories	Peter Robinson	15 hrs
170	Potsdam Station	David Downing	11.5 hrs
171	The Dog Who Came In From The Cold	Alexander McCall Smith	9.9 hrs
172	Never Less Than a Lady	Mary Jo Putney	9.5 hrs
173	Sherlock Holmes: The Sphinx Collection: Three Sherlock Holmes Mysteries in One Book	Pennie Mae Cartawick	1.5 hrs
174	Zoo Station	David Downing	10 hrs
175	Stettin Station	David Downing	9.8 hrs
176	Declare	Tim Powers	21.7 hrs
177	Nine for the Devil: A John the Lord Chamberlain Mystery	Eric Mayer	9.3 hrs
178	Something Nasty in the Woodshed: A Charlie Mortdecai Mystery	Kyril Bonfiglioli	6 hrs
179	My Revolutions	Hari Kundzru	9.7 hrs
180	Quiller Solitaire	Adam Hall	8.5 hrs
181	The Network	Jason Elliot	11.5 hrs
182	More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past	Henry Van Dyke	5 hrs
183	Cop to Corpse: A Peter Diamond Investigation	Peter Lovesey	11.5 hrs
184	Quiller Salamander	Adam Hall	8 hrs
185	The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold	Evelyn Waugh	4.5 hrs
186	Helena	Evelyn Waugh	5.5 hrs
187	The Complete Stories	Evelyn Waugh	19.5 hrs
188	Innocent Victims: Two Novellas	Minette Walters	4.7 hrs
189	Casanova in Bolzano	Sándor Márai	8.4 hrs
190	The Oversight	Charlie Fletcher	15 hrs
191	The Stone Wife: A Peter Diamond Investigation	Peter Lovesey	11.3 hrs
192	A Christmas Garland	Anne Perry	4 hrs
193	The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes	Ted Riccardi	13.4 hrs
194	Between the Thames and the Tiber: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Britain and the Italian Peninsula	Ted Riccardi	9.3 hrs
195	In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816–1914	Théophile Gautier	13.1 hrs
196	The Last Detective	Peter Lovesey	11.5 hrs
197	The Circle	Peter Lovesey	10.4 hrs
198	Time to Depart: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	12.8 hrs
199	Fallen Into the Pit	Ellis Peters	10.6 hrs
200	Death and the Joyful Woman	Ellis Peters	7.5 hrs
201	The Piper on the Mountain	Ellis Peters	7 hrs
202	Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart	Ellis Peters	7.5 hrs
203	The Daydreamer	Ian McEwan	3 hrs
204	City of Gold and Shadows	Ellis Peters	8.2 hrs
205	Ode to a Banker: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11.6 hrs
206	A Body in the Bathhouse: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11.7 hrs
207	A Time Without Shadows	Ted Allbeury	9.7 hrs
208	Sotheby's—Bidding for Class	Robert Lacey	9.9 hrs
209	The Rogue's Return	Jo Beverley	11.6 hrs
210	Rainbow's End	Ellis Peters	7.1 hrs
211	The Accusers: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11 hrs
212	The Knocker on Death's Door	Ellis Peters	7.3 hrs
213	Legends II: Volume II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy	Robert Silverberg	5.3 hrs
214	House of Green Turf	Ellis Peters	7.2 hrs
215	Scandal Takes a Holiday: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	10.9 hrs
216	A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs	Ellis Peters	7.3 hrs
217	See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery	Lindsey Davis	11.1 hrs
218	Secrets of Surrender	Madeline Hunter	9.9 hrs
219	Beyond the Western Sea: Book One: Escape From Home	Avi	10.5 hrs
220	Beyond the Western Sea: Book Two: Lord Kirkle's Money	Avi	12.8 hrs
221	Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England	Carolly Erickson	9.7 hrs
222	A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu	Michael Stanley	14.3 hrs
223	A Line in the Sand	Gerald Seymour	15.3 hrs
224	Passing Through	Colin Channer	12 hrs
225	My Revolutions	Hari Kunzru	9.5 hrs
226	The Secret Hangman	Peter Lovesey	10.8 hrs
227	The Haunting of Lamb House	Joan Aiken	7.3 hrs
228	Mr Phillips	John Lanchester	6.7 hrs
229	Death in Summer	William Trevor	6.5 hrs
230	Foreigners	Caryl Phillips	8.1 hrs
231	The Trial of Elizabeth Cree	Peter Ackroyd	9 hrs
232	Sherlock Holmes: The Flight Collection, Three Sherlock Holmes Mysteries	Pennie Mae Cartawick	1.3 hrs
233	Sherlock Holmes: The Phoenix Collection - Three Sherlock Holmes Mysteries in One Book	Pennie Mae Cartawick	1.4 hrs
234	Sherlock Holmes: The Griffin Collection	Pennie Mae Cartawick	1.2 hrs
235	The Revenant Express	George Mann	6.7 hrs
236	Down Among the Dead Men	Peter Lovesey	10.7 hrs
237	Killing With Confetti	Peter Lovesey	9 hrs
238	Coral Glynn	Peter Cameron	6.9 hrs
239	Mrs Queen Takes the Train	William Kuhn	9.6 hrs
240	Silesian Station	David Downing	11.3 hrs
241	Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact	John Cornwell	6.4 hrs
242	High: Stories of Survival From Everest and K2	Fs Smythe	5.7 hrs
243	An Audio Bundle: Climb & High	Fs Smythe	10.9 hrs
244	Flying Finish	Dick Francis	8.8 hrs
245	Dead Cert	Dick Francis	9.1 hrs
246	Come to Grief	Dick Francis	10.8 hrs
247	Whip Hand	Dick Francis	8.6 hrs
248	Don’t Point That Thing at Me	Kyril Bonfiglioli	6.5 hrs
249	After You with the Pistol: A Charlie Mortdecai Mystery	Kyril Bonfiglioli	6.8 hrs
250	The Quiller Memorandum	Adam Hall	7.3 hrs
251	Quiller Bamboo	Adam Hall	9.8 hrs
252	How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism	Roger Scruton	10.4 hrs
253	Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft	H.P. Lovecraft	20.1 hrs
254	Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre	H.P. Lovecraft	20.2 hrs
255	An Audio Bundle: Epic & Rough Water	Fa Worsley	11.2 hrs
256	The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail	Richard Leigh	9.6 hrs
257	Stagestruck	Peter Lovesey	10.5 hrs
258	The Breaker	Minette Walters	11.4 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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