Fantasy audiobooks

Truckers - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people.
They are four inches tall, brave, stubborn and resourceful.
They are the nomes.

The nomes in this story live under the floorboards of a large Department Store and have never been Outside. In fact, they don't even believe in Outside. But... Read more

Wings - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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.... Read more

Johnny and the Dead - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sell the cemetery?

Over their dead bodies . . .

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since... Read more

Equal Rites - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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... Read more

Mort - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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... Read more

Reaper Man - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'

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... Read more

The Light Fantastic - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still... Read more

Interesting Times - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'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... Read more

Maskerade - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'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.... Read more

Men At Arms - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.'

Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another... Read more

Small Gods - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.'

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... Read more

Soul Music - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.'

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... Read more

Witches Abroad - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of modern endeavour' Daily Mail

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .... Read more

Eric - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.

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... Read more

Feet Of Clay - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit... Read more

Hogfather - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys... He's gone.

Susan the governess has got to find him before morning, otherwise the sun won't rise. And unfortunately her only helpers are a raven with an... Read more

Guards! Guards! - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor I don't know who is.'

An aura of mean-minded resentfulness is thick in the streets of Ankh-Morpork. Insurrection is in the air. The Haves and... Read more

Melting Stones

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Grace Kelly

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestselling Author Tamora Pierce has done something unprecedented for an author of her stature—written the newest novel in her Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio. There will be no print version for at least a year! It’s the story of Evvy, the young stone mage introduced in Pierce’s bestselling Street Magic, who... Read more

Out of the Silent Planet

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (also known as the Cosmic or Space Trilogy), which is considered his chief contribution to science fiction. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for... Read more

The Mischief Monster

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Ryan Sparkes

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Moongobble has completed his three Mighty Tasks, and Edward begins to fear that their adventures might be over. But before life can become too quiet an annoying little monster named Snelly comes bounding into their lives. As if Snelly wasn’t trouble enough, Moongobble’s magic has gone wrong again, causing his faithful toad, Urk, to undergo a... Read more

The Will of the Empress

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Tamora Pierce

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tamora Pierce returns to the world of Circle of Magic for this smashing novel that brings the four young mages back together as teens. Suspense! Court intrigue! Romance! Fights! All the things that you love about Tammy’s books are here in abundance. Read more

Dark Demon

By: Christine Feehan

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly calls the Dark Carpathian novels a "sex- and magic-filled treat." Dark Destiny and the dozen other books in this New York Times best-selling series sizzle with superhuman passions and paranormal powers. With Dark Demon, the realm of the mighty Carpathians is shaken by a powerful and perilous union. A shape-shifter, Natalya... Read more

Warriors: The New Prophecy #6: Sunset

By: Erin Hunter

Narrated by: Nanette Savard

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series continues with the sixth book in the New Prophecy series!The sixth book in this second series, Warriors: The New Prophecy #6: Sunset, brings more adventure, intrigue, and thrilling battles to the epic world of the warrior Clans.As shadows of the past continue to plague the forest,... Read more

The Night Kitchen Radio Theater Presents: Pinocchio

By: Night Kitchen Radio Theatre

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Night Kitchen Radio Theater performance is based on the classic story Pinnocchio--a talking wooden puppet who yearns to become a real boy. Read more