Audiobooks narrated by Martin Shaw
Doyle in The Professionals, and later Judge John Deed and George Gently. His Silmarillion is the older complete reading on this site's comparison, beside Andy Serkis's. His Hobbit is an abridgement, and so are his Hardy, Wuthering Heights and Ken Follett readings: check the runtime. A different Martin Shaw, the mythologist and storyteller, also reads on the UK store; his books are not these.
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Best known for
- The Silmarillion
- The Hobbit (abridged)
- The Profession of Violence (abridged)
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles (abridged)
Series Martin Shaw appears in
We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Martin Shaw’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 Martin Shaw is one of the choices
Books sold as more than one recording, with Martin Shaw among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.
The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien · 5 recordings
The SilmarillionJ.R.R. Tolkien · 2 recordings- Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · 11 recordings
- Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy · 13 recordings
Recordings featuring Martin Shaw
A selection from Martin Shaw’s Audible UK catalogue, not the whole of it: 8 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. 7 of these are abridged — a shortened text, not the whole book, for the same credit. Why that keeps happening →
| Title | Author | Length | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Silmarillion | J. R. R. Tolkien | 14h 49m | Solo |
| The Hobbit | J. R. R. Tolkien | 5h 57m | Abridged |
| The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins | John Pearson | 6h 7m | Abridged |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 3h 3m | Abridged |
| The Man From St Petersburg | Ken Follett | 2h 56m | Abridged |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 2h 23m | Abridged |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 2h 22m | Abridged |
| The Last Legion (Film tie-in) | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | 4h 43m | Abridged |
Authors Martin Shaw reads
Portraits — J.R.R. Tolkien: Photo: Unknown photographer · 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.
See everything narrated by Martin Shaw on Audible → · All narrators