Audiobooks narrated by David Timson
The Hound of the Baskervilles reader this site picks — Audible's own description calls him its award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator — but the same title under his name is also sold as an abridgement at three and a half hours, so check the length. Beyond Holmes he is a Naxos regular: Dickens entire, Gibbon, Herodotus, Boswell, and the Horus Heresy for Black Library.
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Best known for
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Sign of Four
- The Pickwick Papers
- Our Mutual Friend
- The Life of Samuel Johnson
Series David Timson appears in
We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in David Timson’s recordings, and we hold one narrator credit per series rather than per volume. We would rather say so than guess which titles are which.
Where David Timson is one of the choices
Books sold as more than one recording, with David Timson among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.
Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte · 10 recordings
The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle · 15 recordings · our pick
A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · 12 recordings · our pick
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle · 14 recordings
Recordings featuring David Timson
A selection from David Timson’s Audible UK catalogue, not the whole of it: 16 titles, with the type column saying what kind of recording each one is. Checked against the UK store; lengths are as the store gives them.
Watch the type column. 2 of these are abridged — a shortened text, not the whole book, for the same credit. Why that keeps happening →
| Title | Author | Length | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 6h 16m | Solo |
| The Sign of Four | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4h 36m | Solo |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 32h 12m | Solo |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 36h 33m | Solo |
| Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | 39h 6m | Solo |
| The Forsyte Chronicles, Vol. 1: The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | 38h 7m | Solo |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | 51h 2m | Solo |
| Histories | Herodotus | 27h 28m | Solo |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I | Edward Gibbon | 22h 39m | Solo |
| A History of Modern Britain | Andrew Marr | 29h 59m | Solo |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | 23h 30m | Solo |
| Fulgrim | Graham McNeill | 15h 4m | Solo |
| Legion | Dan Abnett | 11h 46m | Solo |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Naxos abridged edition) | Robert Tressell | 8h 43m | Abridged |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles (Naxos abridged edition) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 3h 34m | Abridged |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 13h 8m | With 1 other |
Authors David Timson reads
Portraits — Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Who else reads these
Narrators who work on the same series — useful when a series is split between readers and you want to know whose voice you are getting.
- Stephen FryHarry Potter (UK editions), Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- Derek JacobiI, Claudius, Cadfael, Gladiator
See everything narrated by David Timson on Audible → · All narrators