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 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 14: Lords and Ladies
Author: Terry Pratchett
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...
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Discworld Series Book 39: Snuff
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 39
Duration 11h 29m
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an anci...
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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 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 37: Unseen Academicals
Author: Terry Pratchett
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...
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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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Discworld Series Book 13: Small Gods
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 13
Duration 9h 55m
Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation...
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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 35: Wintersmith
Author: Terry Pratchett
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 35
Duration 8h 1m
Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake . . .And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're 13, but also just a little bit . . . cool.And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglect...
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