Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett

Narrated By: Stephen Briggs

Duration: 6 hours and 38 minutes

What to expect

IT’S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD . . .

Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice – a streetwise tomcat – leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money.

Until they run across someone playing a different tune.

Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .

Genre

Children's / Teenage fiction: Nature & animal stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children's / Teenage fiction: Action & adventure stories

Listen to a sample

Simply gripping story-telling

Great yarn written in fairly simple text

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy

An astonishing novel...I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places

Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad