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Terry Pratchett
There’s a Death in the family.It’s hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the…
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Although the scythe isn’t pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants’ revolt will know that in skilled hands it…
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Thief of Time is the 26th novel in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the…
The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so old that it had magically become new again. You can call them nostalgic, but there are still people…
The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. Can handle a sword a little. ) and Theda Withel ( I come from a little town…
"Start with Douglas Adams's comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien's alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy's gritty realism and Jonathan Swift's unflinching satire and…
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Terry Pratchett's masterpiece - a desert island story of epic and hilarious proportions. Now available in this brand-new, stunning edition.
Widely thought of as the best book Terry Pratchett ever…
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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist…
What shall we do? said Twoflower. Panic? said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with…
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A dying wizard tries to pass on his power to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son…
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we’d better not go into), he…
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three…
‘Look after the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the dead will look after you.’ Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become…
Things have to come to an end, see. That’s how it works when you turn the world into stories. You should never have done that. You shouldn’t treat people like…
‘What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the…
Susan had never hung up a stocking. She’d never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn’t that…
With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld’s last continent needs a saviour. Who is this…
Koom Valley, the ancient battle where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago. But if he doesn’t solve the murder of…
The Discworld Christmas novel - with a new introduction by Tony Robinson ‘Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house…something was missing. The stockings are hanging ready, the…
Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthur’s knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. . Fourteen fantastically funny stories from master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett…
Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who’ll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he’s sober. In fact, it’s Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can’t even spell…
A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam…
Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats .
"Unadulterated fun."--San Francisco Chronicle
The fate of Ankh-Morpork rests on the unlikely shoulders of newly promoted Corporal Carrot and his hapless charges in the City Watch in this wildly wacky…
"Pratchett cheerfully takes readers on an exuberant tale of mystery and invention. Along the way, he skewers everything from monarchy to fascism, as well as communism and capitalism, oil wealth…
An interplanetary tourist called Twoflower joins up with a drop-out wizard whose spells only seem to work half of the time. Together they undertake a chaotic voyage through a crazy…
"Humorously entertaining. . . subtly thought-provoking. . . . Pratchett's Discworld books are filled with humor and with magic, but they're rooted in--of all things--real life and cold, hard reason."--Chicago…
"Delightful. . . logically illogical as only Terry Pratchett can write." --Anne McCaffrey
Will the most unlikely hero in all of Discworld save the universe once again…
"Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz . . . has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland…
"If you are unfamiliar with Pratchett's unique blend of philosophical badinage interspersed with slapstick, you are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity." --Financial Times
Chaos ensues when Discworld's deliciously…
"As traumatic as it is to only choose one Pratchett, this first entry in his Guards sub-series encompasses everything that is brilliant about his writing: terrific characterization and plotting, a…
"This is fantasy served with a twist of Monty Python, parody that works by never taking itself too seriously." --Publishers Weekly
Murder! Mahem! Bacon sandwiches! People are dying suspiciously in…
"Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavor." --Daily Mail
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"Night Watch turns out to be an unexpectedly moving novel about sacrifice and responsibility, its final scenes leaving one near tears. . . Terry Pratchett may still be pegged as…
"A lively outing, complete with sly shout-outs to Jane Austen and gritty police procedurals."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In Terry Pratchett's delightful New York Times bestselling tale of crime, class, prejudice…
"Pratchett's humor is international, satirical, devious, knowing, irreverent, unsparing, and above all, funny." --Kirkus Reviews
Determined to create a wish granting demon, an inept young demonologist instead conjures the Discworld's…
"If you read just one of Pratchett's books, you'll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen." -- Washington Post
A delightfully funny, fantastically…
"One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest."--George R. R. Martin
A trio of witchy godmothers discovers just how difficult it can be to prevent a servant…
‘Just because you can’t explain it, doesn’t mean it’s a miracle.’ In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: Hey, you! This is the Discworld, after all, and…
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A hilarious fantasy, perfect for ages seven and up, by master storyteller Terry Pratchett - the first book he ever wrote! In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness.
"Unadulterated fun. . . witty, frequently hilarious."--San Francisco Chronicle
Chaos and hilarity ensue when a young woman becomes the first female wizard, upending the Discworld in this bitingly funny tale…
"Superb."--Washington Post Book World
A cauldron of fun is brewing when a trio of the Discworld's witches, led by the delightfully iconoclastic Granny Weatherwax, turn their wands to royal politics…
"His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction."--Mail on Sunday (UK)
An invasion of elves threatens to disrupt a perfectly dreamy Midsummer Night…
"Terry Pratchett is the most fascinating teacher you ever had."--Harlan Ellison
Masks, magic, and murder take center stage in this Discworld comedy of operatic proportions from internationally bestselling author Sir…
"The novel exudes the curious feel of old-fashioned vampire and Frankenstein legends. . . . Pratchett lampoons everything from Christian superstition to Swiss Army knives here, proving that the fantasy…
Sir Terry Pratchett
The Discworld’s most inept wizard has been sent to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help overthrow the Emperor. He’s aided by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax…
