If not Terry Pritchett, then who...?

[BlackAlys]

Posting here for sheer traffic.

I am a desperate woman. I know there's a HUGE fan base here so please please help.

I read and listen to TP Discworld audio books almost constantly - when cooking, cleaning, walking and driving to work.

I'll always be his No.1 fan but I wouldn't mind branching out.

I've read Neil Gaiman.
Have tried to get into The Red Rising series (recommended by a friend) and I simply can't resonate with it at all). And that's the issue - Sir T was just an incredible observer and iconic writer of human traits and falling in love with his characters has truly stunted me from exploring others.

What can I move on to?!

Help!

@AnneFuckingKirrin and @BlackAlys
I came back to say that you are all wrong and Nanny Ogg plainly has a broad Lancashire accent.

Douglas Adam's has a similar nack of making outlandish characters and situations hugely relatable to our real world in a funny way.

Not a fantasy series, but I’d suggest giving the Falco books by Lindsay Davis a try. Roman private detective series. Witty and wry and great characters.

The audiobook version of Dianne Wynn Jones Howl’s Moving Castle is brilliantly done by John Sessions and definitely worth listening too.

The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills. Nothing really in common except if you like TP you must be intelligent and interested in how society works.
Otherwise look into self-published authors if you like series, many are good these days and publishing at a professional level. The book 1s of many series are free so you can easily see if you like the style. A lot do audiobooks too. (I don’t have specific recommendations unfortunately, but you could start at TP on Goodreads and see where you get to.)

I definitely recommend Rivers of London, and I'm also glad to see that Charles Stross' Laundry files has had a mention. Jasper Fforde is also great. I have also found Wilkie Martin's Inhuman series good, and Paul Cornel's London triology is also quite gripping, but also really dark.

Has anyone said Brendan Sanderson yet? I don't know if they're audio or not but anything by him is fab.

Oh I'd you like wizards and sarcasm you could try the Belgariad by David Eddings. Can be a bit earnest but some good humour between the characters.

Paul Cornel's London triology is also quite gripping, but also really dark.

Oh that series is so good. I think he's stopped writing them though. Maybe too close to RoL in content. I'm really gutted not to find out what happens next! I even posted on his blog to say please please finish the series, which I never do!

Off topic for STP, but what I love about the various "mystic London" type books is how they define magic in their respective universes. Each very different, but each a convincing framework.

One I just remembered is the Soddit by Adam Roberts. It starts out as a Hobbit parody but ends up riffing on itself and becoming its own story in a very satisfying way.