Jodi Taylor audiobooks

A guide to listening

For a first trip through the central time-travel sequence, begin with the unabridged recording of Just One Damned Thing After Another and continue through the St Mary’s novels in order. Zara Ramm narrates the main run, giving the series a steady voice from book to book. Her performance is character-led and brisk, with clear shifts in dialogue that help the busy ensemble stay distinct. That suits the books’ quick changes between research, workplace conversation and historical action. Short stories can be fitted around the novels using the site’s reading-order notes, or saved for later as extra visits.

The other series use a broader set of voices. The listed UK recordings credit Lucy Price-Lewis, Kate Scarfe, Anna Bentinck, Piers Wehner and Jodi Taylor on various UK recordings, alongside Zara Ramm. Open an individual title to see the narrator attached to that edition: credits can vary by series and format, so a familiar voice should not be assumed for every book. The voice listed here comes from the specific sourced audiobook listing, rather than a prediction based on neighbouring titles.

There are two different ways to hear the opening St Mary’s novel. Its unabridged recording is a single-narrator performance by Zara Ramm, running for 9 hours 30 minutes. A separate Audible Original is a full-cast adaptation, dramatised with multiple performers and running for 7 hours 10 minutes. They are distinct productions, not a long and short version of the same recording. Choose the unabridged edition to follow the regular audio series format, or the cast adaptation for a more theatrical retelling. This guide marks the adaptation separately so the two runtimes are not confused.

The duration figures below add the individually listed UK recordings in each family. They are useful for planning a series-sized listening project, but are not deduplicated story totals: collections may gather material already available elsewhere, and a missing standalone runtime is not guessed. Each book’s listing gives its own length and narrator. Availability and regional editions can change, so retailer pages remain the final reference when choosing a copy.

When comparing recordings, check whether a listing is unabridged, adapted or part of a collection. Unabridged editions preserve the complete text in a single performance; the full-cast release of the first St Mary’s novel is adapted for multiple voices and dramatic presentation. A shorter runtime therefore does not simply mean a faster reading. Story order also matters for the connected books: continuing with the numbered novels helps keep the recurring cast and references in view, while the optional shorts make good in-between listens when their placement is clear. The listings give each recording’s source and runtime so a listening plan can be built from editions rather than guessed from book length.

For long journeys, St Mary’s offers the largest sequence of sustained recordings; the other shelves range from the Time Police’s connected adventures to the shorter Farm and Smallhope sequences. Collections are a convenient way to hear several stories together, especially seasonal pieces, but their combined running time can overlap with standalone editions. The per-book links below make it possible to plan in smaller stages: choose a series, check each runtime, and decide whether to include its side stories as you go.

For a quick sense of scale, current recorded time by family is:

• St Mary’s: 190 hr 3 min across 32 recordings
• Time Police: 82 hr 14 min across 7 recordings
• Smallhope & Pennyroyal: 23 hr 35 min across 2 recordings
• Elizabeth Cage: 45 hr 12 min across 4 recordings
• Frogmorton Farm: 22 hr 56 min across 5 recordings
• Standalone & collections: 30 hr 38 min across 3 recordings