Brother Cadfael audiobooks in order
Twelfth-century monastic mysteries, and one of the most confusing listings on the store: full-length readings and a much shorter abridged set side by side, one more than twice the length of the other.
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Which order should you listen in?
Publication order. Mostly self-contained mysteries, so you can dip in, though the monastery cast develops across the run. IMPORTANT: check the runtime before you buy. Sir Derek Jacobi's Cadfael recordings are abridged, at less than half the length of the complete readings.
Before you buy a run: The Confession of Brother Haluin, The Heretic's Apprentice, The Potter's Field, The Summer of the Danes, The Holy Thief and Brother Cadfael's Penance have no complete UK audiobook on sale; all but The Confession of Brother Haluin and The Holy Thief can be bought only as Jacobi's abridgements.
On screen: ITV series, 1994–1998. Every series here that has been adapted for the screen →
Brother Cadfael in publication order
- 1
A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)Read by Stephen Thorne · 7h 19m unabridged - 2
One Corpse Too Many (1979)Read by Stephen Thorne · 8h 4m unabridged - 3
Monk's Hood (1980)Read by Stephen Thorne · 7h 47m unabridged - 4
St Peter's Fair (1981)Read by Johanna Ward · 7h 52m unabridged - 5
The Leper of Saint Giles (1981)Read by Johanna Ward · 7h 14m unabridged - 6
The Virgin in the Ice (1982)Read by Vanessa Benjamin · 8h 23m unabridged - 7
The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983)Read by Vanessa Benjamin · 8h 18m unabridged - 8
The Devil's Novice (1983)Read by Vanessa Benjamin · 8h 27m unabridged - 9
Dead Man's Ransom (1984)Read by Roe Kendall · 7h 32m unabridged - 10
The Pilgrim of Hate (1984)Read by Roe Kendall · 7h 58m unabridged - 11
An Excellent Mystery (1985)Read by Roe Kendall · 8h 13m unabridged - 12
The Raven in the Foregate (1986)Read by Vanessa Benjamin · 7h 7m unabridged - 13
The Rose Rent (1986)Read by Wanda McCaddon · 6h 36m unabridged - 14
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1987)Read by Roe Kendall · 7h 47m unabridged - 15
The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 16
The Heretic's Apprentice (1989)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 17
The Potter's Field (1989)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 18
The Summer of the Danes (1991)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 19
The Holy Thief (1992)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 20
Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994)No unabridged UK audiobook found