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The Bromeliad Series Book 2: Diggers
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesBook of the Nomes, Book 2
Duration 3h 36m
A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things begin to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits. Then humans appear and they really mess everything up. The quar...
View BookThe Bromeliad Series Book 1: Truckers
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesBook of the Nomes, Book 1
Duration 5h
To the thousands of the tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Maskin, one of the last nomes to come in...
View BookThe Bromeliad Series Book 3: Wings
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesThe Bromeliad, Book 3
Duration 2h 45m
Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home - back to wherever they came from. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means getting to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impo...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 28: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 28
Duration 6h 37m
Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .
View BookDiscworld Series Book 1: The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 1
Duration 6h 52m
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to s...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 3: Equal Rites
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Celia Imrie
SeriesDiscworld, Book 3
Duration 7h 28m
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard - by mistake. Everybody knows that there...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 9
Duration 3h 34m
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted.Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 17: Interesting Times
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
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...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 14: Lords and Ladies
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 14
Duration 8h 59m
'When you start believing in Spirits, you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are, you're believing in Gods. And then you're in trouble.' Reality is all very well in small doses. It's a perfectly conventional and convenient way of neutralising the imagination. But sometimes when there's more than one reality at play, imag...
View BookDiscworld Series Books 18: Maskerade
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
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. Whe...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 5: Sourcery
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 5
Duration 7h 54m
All this books and stuff, that isn't what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry. All is not well within the Unseen University. The endemic politics of the place have ensured that it has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And the world is...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 25: The Truth
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 25
Duration 10h 24m
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a s...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 12: Witches Abroad
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 12
Duration 8h 23m
'Things have to come to an end, see. That's how it works when you turn the world into stories. You should never have done that. You shouldn't treat people like they was characters, like they was things. But if you do, then you've got to know where the story ends.' That's the problem when you let real life get in the way of a good story. You should...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 37: Unseen Academicals
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 37
Duration 12h 18m
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. This is not going to be a gentleman's game. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 26: Thief of Time
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 26
Duration 10h 51m
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish n...
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