A brand-new full-cast audio production of Good Omens, the internationally beloved novel and collaboration by best-selling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Starring Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, David Tennant as Crowley and Rebecca Front as the Narrator.

According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So, the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.

Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon - both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle - are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist....

Don't miss season two of Good Omens, coming soon to Amazon Prime Video.

Dramatis Personae:

Supernatural Beings:

Rebecca Front: Narrator

Michael Sheen: Aziraphale

David Tennant: Crowley

Humans:

Katherine Kingsley: Anathema Device

Arthur Darvill: Newton Pulsifer

Peter Forbes: Shadwell

Gabrielle Glaister: Madame Tracy and Agnes Nutter

Them:

Louis Davison: Adam

Pixie Davies: Pepper

Chris Nelson: Wensleydale

Ferdinand Frisby Williams: Brian

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Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Josh Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves and Lemn Sissay.

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Listening Length	12 hours and 14 minutes
Author	Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Narrator	Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Chris Nelson, David Tennant, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Gabrielle Glaister, Josh Hopkins, Katherine Kingsley, Lemn Sissay, Louis Davison, Michael Sheen, Peter Forbes, Rebecca Front, full cast
Audible.com.au Release Date	14 January 2022
Publisher	Headline
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Original recording
Language	English
ASIN	B09Q3GGH7Z
Best Sellers Rank	515 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 57 in Epic Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) 95 in Epic Fantasy (Books)

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Bruce Crawford

Glad I finally read it.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 October 2019

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I’ve known of Good Omens for decades. But I never got around to reading it. Having just seen the tv series and being stuck in a anonymous hotel in the dingy section of a regional Australian city, I picked up my kindle and began reading.

It’s a good natured book that’s not cynical or nasty and which likes its characters. It’s a joyful read and clever without being obnoxious about it. And it has a final paragraph that’s a perfect counterpoint to the ending of a far more dire piece of English literature.

Read it and don’t waste 27 years about it.

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Bibliophilia Eclectica

One of my favourite books of all time. Of. All. Time.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 August 2019

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A charming, funny story about the end of the world and the demon and angel who work together to prevent it. There are so many enjoyable things about this book. There's some inspired silliness, there is some philosophical perspective, there are a lot of quotable concepts (my husband and I often joke about "Best of Queen" and I can't hear the line in "Bohemian Rhapsody" about how "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for meeeeeee..." without thinking of this book, just as one example).

I re-read this book every few years and have done since about 1993.

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Just what you'd expect from 2 great writers

Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2018

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I've read this several times now and I still find it funny. Exactly what you'd expect after two great writers got together and created something very special. As the authors mentioned in their Intro to this book, I wont be surprised if there are copies of this floating around in the Vatican too.

The apocalypse will never be the same again.

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Fractal

A Clever, Funny and Enjoyable Read

Reviewed in Australia on 14 July 2021

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A good but not a great read, but the concept was original and it was exactly what I would have expected from the collaboration of these two excellent but slightly quirky authors. Lots of weird and flawed characters in an engaging yet slightly zany adventure. Well worth the read.

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The Man With no Name

Nice writing, no substance

Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2019

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The writing is very witty and the dialogue in particular is excellent. But the running joke of good/evil heaven/hell being the same thing, while funny, isn’t funny enough. The little jabs along those lines about freedom fighters/terrorists and politicians being in the pocket of both heaven and hell are neither funny or profound. The attempts at humorous moralism over the pollution, war and the environment are neither funny nor profound. Some characters are quite good, particularly the Crowley and Aziraphale. But I think there have just been too many crammed in to ensure both the coherence of the narrative and good characterisation.

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Paul

Average read with a dose of humour

Reviewed in Australia on 28 May 2021

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Really couldn't get too enthused by Good Omens. Both authors indicated their objective was to gain a chuckle or two from each other as they compared their drafts. They failed in my case with the finished product.

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Tony Peck

A delight by two of the greatest authors

Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2019

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Lovely mad book with an all but certain end to everything we know and love as well as hate.

So many flawed wonderful people, angels, demons, witches witch hunters and more. If you like either of the authors you’ll delight in reading this.

A nice afterward where each of them rave about the other. A
So worth reading!

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Darren Rathbone

Just brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 18 April 2019

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I loved every second of this book. I feel like I should have read it years ago, but am glad to have found it now. Very funny and clever. More importantly very engaging.

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David Beeson

Well-written and entertaining, with some lovely glimpses of Pratchett for those who are missing him

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 February 2016

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Like most fans of his works, I have felt the pain of a Pratchett-shaped hole in my reading life ever since his death. The gift of a new novel was a yearly gift I’d come to rely on, and now it’s gone for good. We shall miss it.

But on the urgings of a friend, I have now, and for the first time, read one of the novels that he wrote in collaboration with another writer. I’d always resisted that inclination in the past, driven by a sense that I wanted my Terry Pratchett unadulterated or not at all. Ask a Scotsman what the best thing is to add to a whisky and he’ll tell you, “another whisky.” Nothing mixes better with Pratchett than another Pratchett.

After <i>Good Omens</i>, I’ve had to revise that view. It isn’t a Pratchett novel. It isn’t set on the Discworld, for instance, but on Earth. Nonetheless, behind the wit that hums through the book, some of it no doubt down to the co-author Neil Gaiman, there are occasional gleams of pure Pratchett: in the ageing dominatrix, for instance, who is essentially motherly and decorates her boudoir of sin with fluffy toys, or the suggestion that nothing Hell could come up with as a torment would rival what mankind can dream up on its own.

The theme is a parody of the film <i>Omen</i>. A son has been born to Satan. His agents, notably the demon Crowley who is coordinating the whole venture, have arranged that an American diplomat’s wife will give birth that very night to a son in an obscure hospital in the English countryside, which happens to be staffed by nuns from a Satanist order. This will allow a switch to be performed, leading to the devil’s child being brought up in a family which will provide him with the opportunity to plunge the world into the chaos that leads to Armageddon.

Alas, however, even infernal agents, like humans, are inclined to err. The switch is mishandled. So, eleven years later, as the forces of hell and those of heaven prepare to fight their last battle to the destruction of the Earth and the human species, nothing goes to plan.

Which isn’t such a bad thing for Crowley, and his opposite number, the angel Aziraphale. The two of them have grown used to life on earth and have come to enjoy it. No more antique bookshops? No more elegant cocktail bars? (I leave it to you to decide which is to the taste of which of these two). The prospect leaves them both distraught and, having come close to being friends down the centuries through which they have competed with each other, they collaborate to see if they can find a way of preventing Armageddon while avoiding the likely retribution of their respective heavenly and infernal hierarchies.

Throw into the mix a modern witch, who happens to be a descendant of Agnes Nutter, author of some “nice and accurate prophecies” which, are indeed, astonishingly accurate though sadly not always comprehensible until after the events have happened, and then include a misfit of a young man who becomes a witchfinder, and you have all the ingredients for a rollicking, funny and engaging tale. Since the ending is both satisfying and pointed, with the destruction of an object we might have expected to be treated as sacred, the novel has everything one could hope for to amuse and entertain.

Well worth it if you’re at a loose end and want some entertainment written with talent. And, like me, you're regretting the loss of Terry Pratchett. Enhanced, far from diminished, by Neil Gaiman.

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S.Wn

A one-off

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2017

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I read this book when it first came out - bought this to replace the black-covered original paperback that got lost over multiple house moves. Perhaps it's ended up in Aziriphale's bookshop. What can I say? It's still a great, light-hearted take on Armageddon and the Eternal Battle Between Good and Evil. I'm still at a loss why this has never made it to the screen, but I guess it means we can all keep a cast of characters in our heads.

You might think a collaboration between two authors, particularly two with such distinctive styles, would read like cut-and-paste, but the story flows along like a Lennon-McCartney composition. Knowing there can now never be anything quite like it again makes it all the more poignant.

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Mr. A Weston

I didn’t stop grinning from beginning to end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2018

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Plans for the apocalypse are well under way and – according to the most accurate guide to the future in existence: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (written in 1655) – the world will end next Saturday . . . just after tea.
Things really do look dire. Except, someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. And the angel and demon who have been keeping an eye on things since mankind were evicted from Eden? Well, they’ve become rather comfy with the way things are. And as they countdown continues, mayhem on an earth-shaking scale begins to unravel their best laid plans.
As familiar as an old pair of gloves; or perhaps the walking boots you’ve used for years.
That’s what it feels like to read this gem of a story from two of the most eccentric writers you will ever meet. Inventive; out there; wickedly funny; heavenly.
A superb recipe for disaster. I didn’t stop grinning from beginning to end.

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An Irreverent Take On Armageddon - Laughter is Good For The Soul

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2019

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If you’re a fan of either Messrs. Pratchett or Gaiman you’ll have heard of and probably read this book. If all this is new to you then oh boy, you are in for a real treat. I almost envy you this new journey but not quite because this has to be one of my favourite books of all time. So I’ve bought it again in e-format because I got Amazon vouchers for Christmas and this is a treat to myself.
The story is a rather irreverent take on Armageddon, at a surface inspection it’s clearly a parody of a very well known film but it’s easily arguably so so very much better than the film...isn’t that always the way? What the story is actually about is the eternal battle between good and evil as seen from a child’s point of view, it’s about human nature, immortal forces, life and hope.

I don’t leave reviews often, only when it really matters. Hand on heart I’m telling you that if you haven’t already then you need to discover these authors who mesh so well together in this book. Sir Terry Pratchett is sorely missed by millions but his legacy continues in print. I hope you find the review helpful, I wrote it from memory, now I’m off to reread this book.....

Armageddon approaches rapidly in a quiet unchanging idyllic corner of the British countryside, the AntiChrist has risen or Adam to his friends is accompanied by his faithful adorable Hellhound and it’s almost teatime. The end times are nigh, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse meet up in a motorway cafe but an Angel; Aziraphael and a Demon; Crowley (of M25 infamy) are giving their all to stop that which was writ in Revelations as well as in The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter (Witch). The Witchfinder Army (both of them) are on the move but this time they’re working alongside a witch who not coincidentally happens to be a descendant of Agnes Nutter.

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Zara McAspurren

Because Ineffability.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2016

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Good Omens , by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is one of those books that once read you will always find yourself - sooner or later - going back to have another read of it. Technically speaking this is a re-read that I'm writing my review on but you know what? This is absolutely one of my favourite stories ever.

A short summary? An angel and a demon team up to try to stop the Apocalypse from happening when the Anti Christ reaches the correct age. Basically, it's a bit of a spoof on the movie The Omen except can you still consider a work in that parody category when it's arguably better written that it's source? Pratchett and Gaiman's styles of writing complement each other beautifully, bringing out the best in both and removing any perceived weakness someone could somehow relate to either. The characters are incredibly well rounded, and the humor of the book is such that it stands up to multiple re-readings and you will still find yourself gigging over sections.

The story is more than simply engaging, it's enveloping. The pace moves along at the correct speed, keeping you engrossed with each new word. You can't help but care about these characters, about the stakes that they are going through. Not just because the stakes are the end of the world but because we care about the characters and that is far more important, really.

Honestly? Good Omens is one of those books that I recommend to everyone. Because it is simply that good. It's a forever favourite and more people need to read it, really. Because Ineffability.

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