Truckers

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Truckers
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Audio read byTony Robinson (abridged)
Stephen Briggs (unabridged)
IllustratorMark Beech (illustrated edition only)
Cover artistJosh Kirby (original)
Mark Beech (current)
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Bromeliad
Release number
1
GenreFantasy
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
1989-09-25
Followed byDiggers 

Blurb

‘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 plan that will take all the Nomes into the danger of the great Outside...

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this book.

Date Show Episode External link
2018-07-08 Pratchat “Upscalator to Heaven” pratchatpodcast.com
2022-02-07 The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret “A Whoomph and a Whiff” (1/3)[1] thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2023-03-13 Bookanieri - Libri & Rum “Il piccolo popolo dei Grandi Magazzini con Dottor Pira!”[2] spreaker.com

Other appearances

To be added.

External links

Footnotes

  1. This is the first of three episodes covering the Bromeliad. The other episodes are listed under Diggers and Wings.
  2. In Italian. The podcast’s name is “Bookanieri - Books & Rum”, and the Italian title for Truckers is Il piccolo popolo dei Grandi Magazzini - “The Little People of the Department Store”.