Jim Butcher Audiobooks

Out Law is a novella-sized doorway into The Dresden Files, wizard noir at series length

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Who is Jim Butcher?

Jim Butcher, born in 1971, is an American author working in fantasy. He is the writer behind three separate series – the contemporary fantasy of The Dresden Files, plus Codex Alera and Cinder Spires – which marks him out as a series novelist through and through: a builder of worlds designed to be returned to rather than visited once.

Little else needs embroidering, and honesty serves him better than hype: Butcher is a working genre novelist whose stock in trade is sustained storytelling – recurring characters, escalating stakes, momentum kept up across many volumes. It is The Dresden Files, the series that heads that list, that brings him into our catalogue.

Jim Butcher in audiobooks

Series fantasy and audiobooks are natural partners: listeners who find a world they like tend to stay in it, one instalment after another. Our catalogue features Out Law: A Dresden Files Novella, a shorter entry in the Dresden universe and a sensible way in – novella length means a modest commitment, ideal for finding out whether the Dresden mixture suits you before you take on anything longer.

For UK listeners new to Butcher, that is exactly how we would suggest starting: small and sharp, with the option of a much longer road ahead if it takes.