A sourcerer is born – a wizard so powerful that by comparison all other magic is just mucking about in pointy hats – and his very existence brings the Discworld to the very verge of all-out thaumaturgical war.*
All that stands in the way is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants …

Mort is an unpromising, gangling teenager who becomes an apprentice to Death, but proves less than gifted at his new task of ushering souls out of the world. In fact, when it comes to the rather attractive Princess Keli (due to be assassinated), Mort fluffs if completely. He kills the …

The last thing that the wizard DrumBillet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately he failed to check on the new-born baby’s sex. This is a story about magic and …

Great A’Tuin, the star turtle, who supports the weight of the Discworld, labours through the galactic night, the only creature in the entire universe that knows exactly where it is going.
Philosophers have debated where this is – they are due to find out in about two months. And then they …

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but that looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by …

The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like…well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former …

An Englishman’s continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea.
Arthur Dent’s accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled …

In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (published in 1984), Arthur returns home to Earth, rather surprisingly since it was destroyed when he left. He meets and falls in love with a girl named Fenchurch, and discovers this Earth is a replacement provided by the dolphins in their …

In Life, the Universe and Everything (published in 1982), Ford and Arthur travel through the space-time continuum from prehistoric Earth to Lord’s Cricket Ground. There they run into Slartibartfast, who enlists their aid in preventing galactic war. Long ago, the people of Krikkit attempted to wipe out all life in …

This box set contains all five parts of the’ trilogy of five’ so you can listen to the complete tales of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Bebblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android! Travel through space, time and parallel universes with the only guide you’ll ever need, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to …