AuthorTerry Pratchett
NarratorNigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 17
Duration10h 1m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherTransworld
VersionUnabridged
'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 and armoured empire makes a faintly menacing request of a much smaller, infinitely more cowardly neighbour. It would be churlish, if not extremely dangerous, not to comply - particularly if all they want is a wizard, and they don't specify whether competence is an issue...
Discworld Series Book 23: Carpe Jugulum
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 23
Duration 9h 44m
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side. There's the witches - young Agnes who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying...
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Discworld Series Book 1: The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett
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...
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Discworld Series Book 34: Thud!
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 34
Duration 10h 20m
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer - he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace - and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirr...
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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 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 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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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 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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Discworld Series Book 24: The Fifth Elephant
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 24
Duration 10h 47m
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassador - to th...
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