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The Truth

(Discworld Novel 25)

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The Truth

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Mathew Baynton, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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

'A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on'

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper.

Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.

William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Truth is a standalone novel.

'An unmitigated delight . . . very, very funny' The Times

© Terry and Lyn Pratchett 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

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Critic Reviews

The 25th Discworld novel
'Other writers are mining the rich seam of comic fantasy that Pratchett first unearthed, but what keeps Pratchett on top is - quite literally - the way he tells them.'
'One of the funniest English authors alive'
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A wonderful way to revisit Terry Pratchett’s fantastical take on the development of the press. Great narration brought the book back to life for me.

Great Tale

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loved Matt Baynton's narration. Wish he'd do more of these. STP/Discworld awesome as usual

awesome

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The story is pretty good, but it is the first one in Ank morpork that has a different speaker and when you have the same characters performed differently (Vines, Carrot, Colon, Nobby etc.) it jars

Story feels different to some of the others

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Well produced, this is brilliant storytelling of a deep, compelling and fascinating story. Total enjoyment.

Brilliant story

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Mathew Baynton is a fantastic choice for this book. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Loved this SO MUCH

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