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The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Discworld Novels (Book 28)

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Maurice, an amazing cat who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart. Smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around - rats who have been eating wizards' rubbish and can now talk. Smart enough to get a pretty amazing idea when he spots a stupid-looking kid playing the flute...

Now Maurice has his very own 'plague of rats' - and his own Pied Piper. And his money-bags are getting fuller and fuller. Until the group reach the farflung village of Bad Blintz...

Critics Review

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy
The Guardian
Simply gripping story-telling
The Times
Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad
Daily Telegraph
An astonishing novel...I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places
Financial Times
Great yarn written in fairly simple text
Liverpool Echo
Will take you on a fantastic journey... wonderful, funny and gripping.
Kids Alive
Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.
Kirkus
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of... stuff one can find in a Terry Pratchett book
The Book Smugglers
Amazing Maurice has one of the most satisfying and effective endings in the series!
Reading Bug
Humour, humour and more humour, an utterly unpredictable plot, interesting rats - err, characters - and a profound denoument, this is Discworld at its best.
Speculation
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Tony Robinson
Series Discworld Novels
Duration 3 hours and 7 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781407031552
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Genre Adventure fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Comic (humorous) fantasy, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Satirical fiction and parodies
Availability AU, GB, IE

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