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Brought to you by Penguin. 'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need...

Lucifer is free, and it's my fault. Worse, he turned out to be every bit the manipulative, conniving, deceptive creature everyone always said he was. Then he tossed me into the Pit, without a second thought, and now I'm stuck down here. But I'm not alone. There are voices on the other side of the Pit's walls, people, life. I don't truly know what I'm about to get into, but if I don't find a way out of the Pit, then Earth is doomed, Heaven will burn, and Abaddon . . . I have to save him from Lucifer, or he truly will become the King of the Ashes.

Arthur's finally finding his place in the demon world. He has his own tea shop in a city that accepts him and a family that he's beginning to call his own. But when Milo's father sends word that he's returned from his latest expedition, Arthur is faced with an impossible choice. He could stay in the city and live his peaceful life, or he could go with Milo to the edges of the known world.

Terry needed a weapon. He got a sidekick. After he discovers a few hundred monster soldiers camping out in easy striking distance of his house…oh, and the town…Terry realizes that the trash swords he took from dead enemies won’t cut it. Figuratively or literally. Those monsters have armor! Unfortunately, fixing that problem requires him to face the ultimate horror. Talking to people.

Und hallöchen – da bin ich wieder. Max, der Auserwählte! Mit meiner Gruppe von chaotischen Trott… Ähm, ich meine, mit meiner Gruppe aus Sammlern, die den Namen „Die Auserwählten“ trägt. Übrigens sind wir inzwischen längst eine Große Gruppe. Ihr könnt mich also Lord Max nennen. Hätten Sie Angst, einem Großen Clan den Krieg zu erklären? Also ich jedenfalls nicht. Notfalls nehme ich es auch mit zweien von denen gleichzeitig auf. Nun ja, vielleicht … Auf jeden Fall ist immer der richtige Zeitpunkt für gute Taten und Gerechtigkeit.

Deep in the mountains, The Oncoming Storm finally finds the other Storm Casters. However, learning to control her powers turns out to be more difficult than she expected. In order to improve, she needs someone to train her but that comes at a cost. On the other side of the continent, the stars...

Chelby ist aus dem Gefangenenlager von Sektor Neun entkommen und der Hinrichtung entgangen, aber ihre Probleme fangen gerade erst an ... Ihr Schlaf wird von schrecklichen Albträumen gestört, in denen Fae-Attentäter einen blauen Drachen vom Himmel schießen. Als sich der Drache in Stein verwandelt und zerbricht, erwacht Chelby in ihrem Zimmer zu einem lodernden Inferno. Sie hat erneut die Kontrolle verloren, und das hat Konsequenzen.

Percival dreams of being a hero, but life as Northfall’s Dukeling leaves little opportunity for glory. Smothered by safety when he longs for adventure, he has lived vicariously through plays, books, and stories. But those days are over. He’s just turned eleven, and he’s running out of time to make a name for himself. Now, despite every warning, he’s going to become a hero.

Hysteria has been captured, and the dimensional kingdom of Closetland has been born. However, with the loss of everyone’s favorite hot spring, the victory is bittersweet. Now, Fortune’s Folly heads to their meeting with the Littan Empress, who makes them an offer they don’t want to refuse. Before they can accept, they’ll need to deal with some unwanted gifts that Hysteria left behind, and they’ll need to seek out the potential allies promised by the avatar Avarice. The kind of allies with wings, scales, and a compulsive hoarding disorder.

When Derek is accidentally summoned to another world alongside the chosen "Hero," and is framed by a fellow summoner, he's sent off to the world's most famous labyrinth with nothing but a deed to a notoriously dangerous tavern. So, Derek jumps right in. He decides to take up the mantle and open the tavern. When he chooses to mass-produce illegal health elixirs to help adventurers, he accidentally kick-starts a movement to transform his humble, lawless tavern into a powerful depot that follows him from monster-filled dungeon level to level.

Der Schwarzwald brennt. Überall verkohlte Bienennester! Kriegsverrückte Hornissen haben bereits Baden-Baden erobert. Jetzt wollen sich die tödlichen Biester auch noch Freiburg einverleiben. Die Bienenkönigin ruft zum Widerstand auf und ihre Bienendrohnen schießen zurück – bis zur letzten Raketenpollen. Vergebens. Dann fällt die Königin. Wer soll das Bienenvolk jetzt anführen? Ein Bienenkönig wird ausgerufen. Das gab es noch nie. Um den Feind zu schlagen, sucht er Rat – bei den Menschen.

In the distant past, a time of magic and swordplay, there lived Harold, the mightiest lich of all, a master of arcane sciences, and a challenger of gods. After reaching the pinnacle of his power and finding it surprisingly bland, Harold waged a cataclysmic war against the gods, aiming to shatter the very system that confined him.

Betrayed and left for dead by a group of slaving nobles, he thought there was nothing left but to bleed out as he counted the number of bricks on the ceiling. But fate had other plans.

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of Mort is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford (Fleabag; Vanity Fair; Quiz). BAFTA and Golden Globe...

3,000-year-old demon grim reaper, Aiden Finn has been in trouble with Management before. Back in 79 A.D., he did some serious time in Hell for disobeying the orders of his boss. He just wants to do his job and stay off of Management's radar, but all that's about to change when he tries to get his latest Charge, Carol, to board the ferry and cross the River Styx after she becomes the latest victim of a serial killer targeting witches.

In the magic lands of the Fae Wild, the Goblin King's virility is the lifeblood of the realm. But an insidious curse has put the kingdom on the precipice of a population panic. Enter Thomas Stone: architect, engineer, and unknowing half-blood heir to the goblin throne. Whisked away to a world where baby-making makes the world go round, Thomas finds himself in a pickle thicker than goblin stew. Birth rates are dropping faster than a fairy on a bad flight path, and it’s up to Thomas to save the fae from themselves.

Sergey just can't catch a break! His enemies keep getting smarter and smarter. Remember the brain-dead zombies he used to fight? Man, those were the days.

Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life. As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree, he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate. But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change. Cassidy's home is broken into and ransacked. When he enters he is assaulted by a former professor wanting to know where the alien artifact known as the star stone is. Cassidy manages to escape, only to discover that he is also being pursued by hired criminals, Anglophile zealots, government agents, and aliens.

Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job. She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion - especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job....

Acting jobs don't grow on fire escapes, so struggling actress Esther Diamond is outraged when her guest role as a hooker on controversial TV drama The Dirty Thirty is jeopardized by zombies, angry spirits, and a voodoo curse. Meanwhile, the talented teens Esther is coaching at a Harlem cultural center are also being attacked by the sinister supernatural power that's spreading through Manhattan. 

Walter Moers' Bestseller: Wolpertinger Rumo auf großer Fahrt durch Zamonien. Rumo, der junge Wolpertinger aus "Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär", macht sich selbstständig und geht seinen Weg durch den gefährlichen Kontinent Zamonien. Er folgt einer Geruchsspur, die nur er wittern kann. Auf seiner abenteuerlichen Reise durch Oben- und Untenwelt verschlägt es ihn in den geheimnisvollen Nurnenwald und in das Theater der Schönen Tode. Er begegnet Teufelszyklopen und Mondlichtschatten, den Kupfernen Kerlen und den Toten Yetis - und endlich findet Rumo zu Rala, die ihm die Wunder im Dunkeln zeigt.

'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence...

Ignoring all past experience with the term "adventure", Millie and Daavi have signed on for one. Not quite neglecting the fact she is preparing for a big promotional event at her restaurant, which dignitaries and other very important people are likely to attend, Millie dons a rather charming straw hat and joins Daavi as he runs off to a deserted, rocky, sun-bleached isle, neighboring her own.

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award. Until Doc and Constance Rabbit move in next door, upsetting the locals (many of them members of governing political party United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population), complicating Peter's job as a Rabbit Spotter, and forcing him to take a stand, moving from unconscious leporiphobe to active supporter of the UK's amiable and peaceful population of anthropomorphised rabbits.

Walter Tye is the best friend any adventurer needs. He is the smiling shopkeeper next to your local dungeon, the one who sells you these cheap healing potions. When you need information, Tye always knows. He wants to help; you can trust him. He is also the undead necromancer ruling said dungeon, getting paid to solve problems that he caused in the first place. But don't tell anyone that.

Billy the Barbarian is an Isekai adventure story about a normal man from our Earth whose destiny changes when he gets snatched up by the gods of a magical world. He then wakes up to find himself in a strange, cruel land known as Thune to the locals. It turns out the gods of Thune have pretty big plans for Billy, and before he knows it he's swept up into an adventure the likes of which you've never seen before.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . ____________________ 'Sorry?'...

After surviving countless perils and dangers, including an examination by the Blood Council, Fred is preparing to take on his most important adventure to date: marrying Krystal. That is, if he can get everything handled in time. Visiting Boarback, hiring new staff, clearing out his schedule for a honeymoon; there’s no shortage of tasks to check off before the big day arrives. But not everyone views the occasion in such a happy light. With new dangers looming, old debts raised, and grudges rekindled, it’ll take everything Fred has to finally make it down the aisle.  

As they blunder towards doom, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves inconvenienced by a variety of eldritch beings. Christmas brings a goose that doesn't let being cooked slow it down; they meet an electricity demon, discover why being a redhead is even trickier than one might imagine, and Holmes attempts an Irish accent. And, naturally, Moriarty is hanging around...in some form or other.

Warlock Holmes may have demons in his head, but now Dr. John Watson has a mummy in his bloodstream. Specifically that of the sorcerer Xantharaxes, who when shredded and dissolved in an 8 percent solution, results in some extremely odd but useful prophetic dreams. There's also the small matter of Watson falling for yet another damsel-du-jour, and Warlock deciding that his companion needs some domestic bliss....