A Game of Thrones cover art

A Game of Thrones

Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

A Game of Thrones

By: George R.R. Martin
Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £21.99

Buy Now for £21.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

One of The Times’ 25 Best Audiobooks.

HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A Game of Thrones is the first volume in the series.

Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.

It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues, to the vast and savage eastern lands, all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and honest men...all will play the Game of Thrones.

Winter is coming....

©2011 George R. R. Martin (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Dark Fantasy Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Royalty Mythology Game Funny Feel-Good Scary

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Dune cover art
The Silmarillion cover art
First King of Shannara cover art
Jurassic Park cover art
New Spring cover art
Unfinished Tales cover art
The Fall of Númenor cover art
Virgins cover art
Elantris (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation] cover art
Storm Front cover art
Many Are the Dead cover art
The Sum of All Men cover art
Macbeth: A Novel cover art
Lancelot cover art
Vlad: The Last Confession cover art
Deverry: Books 1-4 cover art

Editor reviews

Game of Thrones Book One: A Song of Ice and Fire written by George R. R. Martin is an immensely popular fantasy series audiobook narrated by veteran British actor Roy Dotrice. Now also a leading Sky Atlantic TV series by HBO. Listeners are introduced to an addictive plot and unforgettable characters in this first installment. Time feels lost in the harshness of endless brutal seasons, impenetrable landscapes and the constant, unwavering battle for the Iron Throne. The Throne means survival. Dark forces, lust and bloodshed will be used to get to it. Available from Audible now.

Critic reviews

"A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s brilliant." (Robert Jordan)

"Colossal, staggering... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world...one of the greats of fantasy literature." (SFX)

"Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads.... Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias." (Guardian)
All stars
Most relevant
A Game of Thrones is one of the most enjoyable books I've listened to in years so much so I completed it very quickly. Without giving any of the story away, it's worth pointing out that the plot can initially be a little confusing as it switches between different characters but as the book progresses you soon gain a greater understanding of the world that the author has created. Another point is that the storyline may seem slow at first but this is essential so as to establish the characters and set the scene, for not just the rest of the book but the rest of the series. And once it gets going, believe me, it really does get going.

Now for a word on the narrator. If you consider the number of different characters there are in this story, and how he has to make them all slightly different to distinguish them for the listener, I think he does an outstanding job. Of course it's natural you won't like all of his characterizations but his ability as a narrator really fits the the story and brings it to life.

This novel is well crafted full twists and intrigue. I cannot enthuse enough about how good this book is and encourage everyone to download it and enjoy this epic story.

A truly brilliant fantasy novel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The readers bizarre portrayal of Drogo and Tirion makes for hard listening at times. Overall it is just about bareable!

Great Book, Not So Great Reader

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I started this series having watched the Game of Throne series on TV and it has not disappointed.  It does take time to get into the stories as there are so many characters, plot lines and background history.  What really helped me to follow what is happening was a website called Tower of the Hand, which has summaries of each chapter and links to biographies of all the characters. 

A great ranges of interesting characters with most showing shades of good and bad in their actions.    Tyrion the dwarf is a great literary creation.  The author is a natural  story teller,  packing the narrative with sparkling dialogue, inventive action, and most chapters end on cliffhangers.  Unusually for a fantasy series many of the early battles are only described to us in the third person, although later books start to describe the battles as first person encounters.

Best fantasy around if you have the time

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Why has Roy Dotrice decided to voice Tyron (one of the most articulate, intelligent and interesting characters) as a cross between Alan Bennett / Compo from last of the summer wine and a Chuckle brother?

Jon Snow is not much better....it's such a shame as it is massively distracting.

A great review but.......

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It is a shame to condemn the poor man and as an overal narrator he is not bad... except for the dialogue. Is it possible to get past the fact everyone, especially the young people, sound like like they are in their 70s and that the various regional accents appear so randomly chosen , but it is unfathomable how significant characters suddenly change accents part way through... most notably turning Welsh?

perhaps it is time to re-record

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews