AuthorTerry Pratchett
NarratorNigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 18
Duration8h 45m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherTransworld
VersionUnabridged
'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. Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows, occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do...
Discworld Series Book 15: Men At Arms
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 15
Duration 9h 48m
Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the fr...
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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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Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree
SeriesDiscworld, Book 41
Duration 9h 22m
Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook of The Shepherd's Crown is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Mena...
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Discworld Series Book 5: I Shall Wear Midnight
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Tony Robinson
SeriesDiscworld, Book 5
Duration 4h 30m
It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past i...
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Discworld Series Book 29: Night Watch
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 29
Duration 10h 40m
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger...
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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 Book 17: Interesting Times
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 17
Duration 10h 1m
'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law' There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance between two informed partners, determined by an elaborate set of elegant and unwritten rules. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. Like when a large, heavily fortified...
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Discworld Series Book 22: The Last Continent
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Tony Robinson
SeriesDiscworld, Book 22
Duration 3h
There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour. Who is this hero striding across...
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Discworld Series Book 11: Reaper Man
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 11
Duration 8h 25m
But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, partic...
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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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