Listen to a sample
Men At Arms
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- Narrator
- Tony Robinson
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 4 January 2007
- Run Time
- 3 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 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 frame for the big job, like saving the world...
Critics Review
-
'Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'
Sunday Express
-
'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'
The Times
-
'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'
Mail on Sunday
-
'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences'
New York Times
See more reviews See fewer reviews
-
'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd'
Sunday Times
-
'This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive'
Daily Telegraph
-
'Pratchett's most intriguing yet'
The Times
User Reviews
No reviews yet.
Details
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- Narrator
- Tony Robinson
- Duration
- 3 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 January 2007
- ISBN
- 9781407032139
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Comic (humorous) fantasy, Epic fantasy / high fantasy, Satirical fiction and parodies, Adventure / action fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
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 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 frame for the big job, like saving the world...
About xigxag
xigxag is an independent, UK-based audiobook platform and the UK's only B Corp certified audiobook company. We offer nearly 150,000 audiobooks, all with professional human narration. No AI-generated voices. xigxag is rated an Ethical Consumer Best Buy for audiobooks and a top-rated ethical bookshop.
There is no subscription. You buy the audiobooks you want, you own them permanently, and prices start at $13.95. The more you listen over the year, the less you pay per book, and there is always a selection in Listen for Less from $7.95. You can also send audiobooks as gifts using our audiobook gift cards or in-app gifting.
Every audiobook on xigxag has honest reviews covering both the book and the narration, and our community features make it easy to share what you are listening to, discover what others recommend, and find your next listen.
Download or stream on iOS, Android, or in your browser. Browse the full catalogue at xigxag.co.uk.