Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
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Witches Abroad
(Discworld Novel 12)

Author: Terry Pratchett

Series: Discworld Novels #12

Narrator: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2022


Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before

The audiobook of Witches Abroad 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 Menace; Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

'You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise, it's just a cage.'

There's power in stories. The Fairy Godmother is good. The servant girl marries the Prince. Everyone lives happily ever after... don't they?

The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick are travelling to far-distant Genua to stop a wedding and save a kingdom. But how do you fight a happy-ever-after, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a power-hungry Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse?

It's hard to resist a good story, even when the fate of the kingdom depends on it...

'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect' Daily Mail

'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin

Witches Abroad is the third book in the Witches series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

© Dunmanifestin Ltd 1991 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on July 26, 2020

Watch the abyss behind the seemingly harmonic fairy tales while Magrat Garlick starts earning her reputation as one of the tightest young witches beside Tiffany Aching. Pratchett uses postmodernism [URL not allowed] to deconstruct, satirize, and exaggerate many of the stereotypic......more

Goodreads review by Lena on August 09, 2022

Brilliant as always, although if you read at least one Discworld book you already know that.......more

Goodreads review by Nikola on October 27, 2025

Niepopularnie: póki co najsłabsza w podcyklu......more

Goodreads review by Trish on December 31, 2018

This is the 3rd adventure with my favourite witches starring a colourful cast of characters such as the here introduced Mrs. Gogol as well as Mr. Casanunda (yes, it is who you fear) in addition to the almost always cheerful Nanny, the always grumpy but ultimately "good" Granny and the always disheve......more

Goodreads review by Elena Rodríguez on January 20, 2022

4.5 “-Gytha Ogg, ¿qué estás haciendo? - Comer algo - ¿Es que no puedes dormir? -No cojo el sueño, Esme- se quejó Tata Ogg-. No entiendo el porqué. -¡Oye, estás comiendo una salchicha de ajo! ¡Comparto la cama con alguien que está comiendo salchichas de ajo! -¡Eh que es mía! ¡Devuélvemela! (…) Creía que te......more


Quotes

'A true orginal among contemporary writers' The Times

'His jokes are the best thing since Wodehouse. His comic footnotes are still glorious' The Times

'Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No-one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour' Daily Mail