Audiobooks narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
A first-person narrator with genuine comic range. His Peter Grant is why a lot of people rate Rivers of London as highly as they do — the books are funnier out loud than on the page.
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Series Kobna Holdbrook-Smith appears in
We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’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.
Rivers of London in orderBen Aaronovitch · 15 books · Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, with other readers on three of the novellas and Shvorne Marks alongside him on Stone and Sky
Earthsea in orderUrsula K. Le Guin · 6 books · Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Farthest Shore), Aysha Kala (The Tombs of Atuan), Jenny Sterlin (Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea) and Samuel Roukin (The Other Wind)
James Bond in orderIan Fleming · 14 books · A different reader per book — Richard Armitage, Adjoa Andoh, Alex Kingston, Mark Gatiss, Robert Glenister and others
Authors Kobna Holdbrook-Smith reads
Ben Aaronovitch1 series on this site
Ursula K. Le Guin1 series on this site- Ian Fleming1 series on this site
Portraits — Ben Aaronovitch: Photo: Andrew Davidson at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Ursula K. Le Guin: Photo: Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University; restored by Adam Cuerden · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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.
- Jenny SterlinTehanu, Tales from Earthsea
- Robert GlenisterThe Cormoran Strike series
- Daniel WeymanThe Roy Grace series, Dominion
- Jon CulshawGuards! Guards!, Feet of Clay
- Adjoa AndohBridgerton (Lady Danbury), Doctor Who, Invictus
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