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The Truth

Discworld, Book 25

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The Truth

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Mathew Baynton, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
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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 listened to in any order but The Truth is a standalone novel.

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

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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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As always, Pratchett is a master of words and twisting them just enough not to break them, but so as they can look the other way.

Wordsmith exemplar

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Frankly the best reading of Terry Pratchett's work so far. I acknowledge that others have been amazing - from Nigel Planer to Stephen Briggs and Tony Robinson - but Mathew Baynton sets a new standard. Accents, comic timing, perfect characterisation and a deep love and understanding of the text just shine through on every level - flawless. Thank you!

A new bar has been set!

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A wonderful performance of this very funny story by Mathew Baynton. Really enjoyable listen from start to finish.

So funny

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Loved the performance and voices. Funny, with Terry’s usual social commentary. Wanted more of The Watch, but still an awesome book!

Brilliant book, brilliantly read

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Loved it. Mathew Baynton did a brilliant job with the voice acting, and I could imagine him playing William de Worde if it was filmed. Also loved the cameos by the Watch!

Very enjoyable

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