EPISODE · Aug 29, 2013 · 13H 29M
The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Written by Diana Wynne Jones)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dark Lord of Derkholm Author: Diana Wynne Jones Narrator: Jonathan Broadbent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: A humorous fantasy adventure from the Godmother of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999. A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés – Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc. The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master – and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/316175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dark Lord of Derkholm Author: Diana Wynne Jones Narrator: Jonathan Broadbent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: A humorous fantasy adventure from the Godmother of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature in 1999. A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés – Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc. The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master – and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?
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