AuthorTerry Pratchett
NarratorNigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 20
Duration9h 47m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherTransworld
VersionUnabridged
There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses. Nowhere more so than in the Discworld where it's helped to maintain the status quo. Anything that undermines superstition has to be viewed with some caution. There may be consequences, particularly on the last night of the year when the time is turning. When those consequences turn out to be the end of the world, you need to be prepared. You might even want more standing between you and oblivion than a mere slip of a girl - even if she has looked Death in the face on numerous occasions...
Discworld Series Book 21: Jingo
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 21
Duration 10h 55m
Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn't. And in such pressing circumstances, you really shouldn't let small de...
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Discworld Series Book 33: Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 33
Duration 10h 57m
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk...
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Discworld Series Book 31: Monstrous Regiment
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 31
Duration 11h 37m
It begun as a sudden strange fancy . . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . .And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and he...
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Discworld Series Book 10: Moving Pictures
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 10
Duration 10h 10m
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the most important thing is to be important.' People might say that reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess weight. Sadly alchemists never really held with such a quain...
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Discworld Series Book 19: Feet of Clay
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 19
Duration 9h 38m
For members of the City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by periods of torpid inactivity. Now is one such troubling time. People are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene. Is there ever a circumstance in which you can blame the weapon not the murderer? Such philosophical questi...
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Discworld Series Book 16: Soul Music
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 16
Duration 10h 8m
There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of specific dimensions that needs to be occupied, particularly so when the...
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Discworld Series Book 36: Making Money
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 36
Duration 10h 55m
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar i...
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Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 4
Duration 7h 18m
"Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome." For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received...
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Discworld Series Books 18: Maskerade
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 18
Duration 8h 45m
'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...' Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera. Wher...
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Discworld Series Book 7: Pyramids
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 7
Duration 9h 8m
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed treasury - is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is a recently acquired qualification from th...
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