Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
    Unavailable
    Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
    Unavailable
    Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes

    Written by Terry Pratchett

    Narrated by Tony Robinson

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    'Outside! What's it like?'
    Masklin looked blank
    'Well,' he said. 'It's sort of big -'
    To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends.

    Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. And it's up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside...


    Brought to life by Tony Robinson, successful writer, actor and documentary-maker. Star of radio, TV and theatre. Well-known for the popular TV series Time Team and his role as Baldrick in Blackadder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House UK Audio
    Release dateJan 4, 2007
    ISBN9781407031736
    Unavailable
    Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
    Author

    Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

    Related to Truckers

    Related audiobooks

    Children's Fantasy & Magic For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Disneyland's Difficult Birth

      Mar 19, 2020

      Disneyland's Difficult Birth
      9 min read

    • Article

      Resuited And Rebooted

      Aug 30, 2020

      Resuited And Rebooted
      9 min read

    • Article

      Children’s TV For Life

      Jun 25, 2021

      Children’s TV For Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Mayhem Factory

      Aug 2, 2020

      The Mayhem Factory
      10 min read

    • Article

      First Contact

      Sep 7, 2022

      First Contact
      1 min read

    • Article

      When Scotland Struck Oil

      Mar 8, 2023

      There's much about it I don't like. We take too long getting to Scotland. The Houston scenes are a shambles – Burt Lancaster's tycoon snoring in a board meeting; the unfunny appearances of the angermanagement psychotherapist; the business executives

      4 min read

    • Article

      The God Delusion

      Mar 25, 2020

      The God Delusion
      9 min read

    • Article

      Reel Life

      Feb 22, 2021

      Reel Life
      7 min read

    • Article

      Re-vamped: British Horror Film-makers Hammer And Amicus Are Back From The Dead

      Oct 29, 2023

      Think of a classic horror film with an archetypal character such as Frankenstein or Dracula, or a movie with a name that does what it says on the tin, like Tales from the Crypt or Beyond the Grave, and the chances are you are thinking of a product by

      4 min read

    • Article

      Worst Films Ever

      Mar 8, 2023

      Worst Films Ever
      4 min read

    • Article

      Radio

      Dec 14, 2022

      Richard Morrison, Times columnist, recently wrote about the 65th anniversary of the Today programme, which has lost 600,000 listeners in a year. Morrison tried listening for two hours, ‘a masochistic way to start the day’. He fondly recalled the 1960

      2 min read

    • Article

      Deep Trouble

      Jun 15, 2023

      Deep Trouble
      14 min read

    • Article

      Daniel Radcliffe Wanders Around Comic-Con Pretending to Be Spider-Man

      Jul 26, 2014

      This article is from the archive of our partner . If going to Comic-Con is your idea of a dream excursion then you would also probably hyperventilate at the news that Daniel Radcliffe (neé Harry Potter) was ambling around the convention hall pretendi

      1 min read

    • Article

      Dialogue

      Mar 3, 2022

      totalfilm.com twitter.com/totalfilm facebook.com totalfilm totalfilm@futurenet.com I couldn’t agree more with Russ Tribe’s Star Letter [TF320]. Film snobbery, entitlement and the desire for likes and retweets are destroying the celebratory nature of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Noid Vs. Noid

      Aug 13, 2020

      Noid Vs. Noid
      5 min read

    • Article

      Comment

      May 31, 2020

      What do Tarantino, Scorsese, PTA, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, George Miller, the Coen brothers, David Fincher and Wes Anderson have in common? They all scored spots in your 100 Greatest Movies of the 21st century (Empire, February) based on reputati

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Miracle of Dunkirk

      Jul 31, 2017

      The Miracle of Dunkirk
      12 min read

    • Article

      Candyman Review – BLM Horror Reboot Is Superb Confection Of Satire And Scorn

      Aug 25, 2021

      Candyman, in its first incarnation, stepped daintily out of the mirror in 1992, in writer-director Bernard Rose’s US-set version of the Clive Barker novella The Forbidden, a parable of English class shame set in a Liverpool housing estate. Rose shift

      2 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Nov 17, 2021

      SIR: I must applaud William Cook (Who was Blackie the donkey?, October issue) in maintaining the tradition of never allowing the facts to mar a good story. Don Mackay arrived at Jarandilla de la Vera first, not in the wake of Hugh Whittow of the Sun.

      5 min read

    • Article

      What To Watch On Disney+: A Critic's Guide

      Nov 11, 2019

      Once upon a time, there was a magic kingdom called Disney - more of a magic empire, really - which, having annexed ABC television, the Muppets, Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox, set its sights on streaming media. Welcome to Disney+, a wo

      7 min read

    Reviews for Truckers

    4/5

    360 ratings10 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      This is my second time reading this book - the first was in my teenage, this time I was reading it to my 11 year old son - and it is still as hilarious as it ever was; we both laughed so much.

      Terry Pratchett has a unique ability to relate every day things and turn them into something different in another world, like in Truckers with the Nomes creating a whole religion based on the selling signs in a store, and believing there was a monster called 'Prices Slashed'. He creates such brilliant characters, so easy to envisage and engage with, and enables us to see our world world through a new set of eyes.

      This was my son's first Terry Pratchett book, and he is keen to move onto Diggers now, as am I.
    • 3/5
      Hmmm. A complicated book. The beginning just felt silly and cute and childish, even with literal life-and-death events going on. And even at the end, there were cute bits where the bickering overrode the story - a child could read the book and enjoy it. But somewhere in there, some important ideas started to grow - about beliefs and how they can blind you, about the responsibilities of leadership, about what you can accomplish even if it looks impossible...about the meaning of "help". I definitely want to read the next two books.
    • 4/5
      After reading the Ramona books and Narnia together, by youngest son and I decided to read these. They were ok... but then he didn't want to have our special reading time together anymore... :(
    • 5/5
      This is an excellent 'cross-over' book - intended for children, but all the more enjoyable for adults.

      Pratchett at his best, in my view, creating a world of 'nomes' who live in the human world, modifying it a little, yet at the mercy of the larger, slower creatures who make things happen.

      Lots of subtle humour - first in the 'Bromeliad' trilogy, and very enjoyable. I first read this about fifteen years ago, then read aloud to my sons when they were around seven or eight. Makes an excellent read-aloud for children this age.
    • 4/5
      TRUCKERS should be compulsory reading for all children up to the age of 99. A detailed study would also bring a lot of religious wing-nuts down to earth.......If they still had any thinking powers.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this satirical children's series from Terry Pratchett. The first book makes fun of religion, which made me laugh out loud a few times.
    • 4/5
      Engaging little gnomes discover theres more to the world than they can see, and even if they are quite literal about it theres more than one meaning to what they do see.
    • 5/5
      I'm really loving Terry Pratchett's work! [i]Truckers[/i] is the first book in [i]The Bromeliad Trilogy[/i]. That it was written for children does not diminish the fact that it's a highly entertaining comic fantasy that even grown-ups will enjoy. The book is very witty and clever, and there were many laugh-out-loud moments for me. Once begun, I found it hard to put down. Highly recommended!
    • 3/5
      Classic, highly enjoyable, always recommended Pratchett. Not Discworld, this time, but our own, which we apparently share with a race of 4-inch high gnomes that just want a safe place to call home.
    • 2/5
      The first Terry Pratchett book I didn't enjoy