Maskerade

(Discworld Novel 18)

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

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The audiobook of Maskerade 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.

'There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness....'

The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics and a harmless masked Ghost who lurks behind the scenes. But now a set of mysterious backstage murders may just stop the show.

Agnes Nitt has left her rural home of Lancre in the hopes of launching a successful singing career in the big city. The only problem is, she doesn't quite look the part. And there are two witches who would much rather she return home to join their coven.

Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg have travelled to Ankh-Morpork to convince Agnes that life as a witch is much better than one on the stage. Only now they're caught up in a murder mystery featuring masks and maniacal laughter.

And the show MUST go on . . .

'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer

Maskerade is the fifth 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.

©1995 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'

'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'

'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'

'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy...Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'

'Entertaining and gloriously funny'

Fantastic

I loved this book. All of the books in the Discworld series about the witches are wonderful.

The witches are amazing as usual

Loved the story telling. The story itself is marvelous. Narrator is skilled and engrossing. The witches are just some of my favorite in discworld

Always great

Great production value & great source material.. makes you think if Andrew Lloyd Webber would get hold of this 🤪

Fantastic

Fantastic story as can be expected from any Discworld novel and the and performance of the narrator is stellar.

great fun story

As all discworkd stories are. Simple is sometimes better, and stories are fun simple fun