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Carpe Jugulum

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree
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The audiobook of Carpe Jugulum 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. Steven Cree (Outlander; A Discovery of Witches) voices the Nac Mac Feegles. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

''Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's...well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'

'Go for the throat....''

Vampires have come to Lancre, but they're not what you'd expect. Sure, they drink blood and view humans as dinner, but they're modern and sophisticated. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. And they're not a bit afraid of garlic.

The Magpyr family are out of the casket and want a bite of the future. But they haven't met the neighbours yet.

Between them and Lancre stand a coven of four - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat and young Agnes - and they don't take kindly to murderous intruders....

Carpe Jugulum is the sixth 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.

©1998 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2022 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"An enduring, endearing presence in comic literature." (Guardian

"Incredibly funny...compulsively readable." (The Times

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Excellent 🙂

Indira Varma's take on Granny Weatherwax approached my own mental picture of her from an unexpected direction, but hits perfection nevertheless.

Overall an excellent production of one of my favourite books.

A few notes: It's Perd-I-ta.
This is why P-er-ditax is funny. (Yes that's a different book but, lets get it right.)

The guy who does the Nac Mac Feegle is excellent, but needs to understand the sources of some of their exclamations. 'There can be only one thousand!' is a joke based on Highlander, and should be spoken with the same emphasis as 'There can be only one!'
Also 'Verra comp-lic-ated documents.' isn't quite right :/

I reckon the Death of Rats should also be voiced by Peter Serafinowicz.

What his name who does the annotations sounds as though he's reading them in his sleep. Wake up and try harder.

These are just silly niggles though.

Isn't it a shame subtle text based jokes are lost? There's no way to put across the bit where the Count substitutes 'prey' for 'pray'.

Indira Varma is perfect though, can't fault any of her voices, spot on 🙂

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Spectacular

Just brilliant!!
I loved every word.
Indra Varma is an absolute genius! It's brought the books back to life.

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Beautifully read by Indira Varma

I enjoyed this immensely. A brilliant choice of reader. Her interpretation of the characters was excellent as well timing, pace and delivery of lines. I think I could listen to any book read by this reader.

The story I felt in places had a sort of uplifting quality. I selected this book because it was the next Pratchett and had no idea it would have such an interesting take on the subject matter. It was good to catch up with the witches again.

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Don't go spilling allegory down your shirt

A wonderful new recording of one of my favourite books.
There is a great YouTube video where the actors etc discuss the venture of retelling of these legendary tales.

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voice acting was great

the story, the voice acting, the creativity. the entire story had me gripped from start to finish. would highly recommend it.

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Best from the Witch series

I've been working my way through the Witch stories and I think this has to be the best one so far for me. It's story was the most attention capturing. Was nice to see Maggret involved again as well as the newest addition/s to the coven 😉 It's always interesting to see how Granny is going to whoop-ass and come out on top in each story and there was a really good good build up to it. The other main characters new to this story also didn't disappoint, a good few moments that made me smile too.

I love listening to how Indira Varma makes this series her own, she's got such a good range of convincing voices and keeps me listening 🙂

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Refreshing.

Great story for young and old alike. 👍
Recommend as a follow up to other Pratchett novels of this ilk.

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Fun listen

Easy to listen to and enjoyable. Terry Pratchett is a great author that can’t be replicated

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Terry Pratchett once again unputdownable

Terry Pratchett does it again. His witches get involved in another escapade. Unable to put down untill finished.

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The witches return…

… it has been some years since I read this one and I still chortled in all the appropriate places - good narration and characterisation and quality of the recording was good as well…

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