"Engaging, surreal satire. . . nothing short of magical."--Chicago Tribune
What would happen without Death? The denizens of the Discworld are about to find out in this captivating entry in New York Times …
"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. At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, …
"On an incandescent Midsummer Night in the Kingdom of Lancre, the Discworld celebrates the wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Margrat Garlick. But music and romance aren't the only things fil…
Every world has its rules?even a flat onecarried by four elephants riding on a giant turtle. That's why a dying wizard is searching for an eighth son of an eighth son to bestow his wizardly powers upon be…
"Being sixteen is always difficult, but it's even more so when there's a Death in the family. An orphan with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe, Susan hasn't exactly had a …
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madl…
"No one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason . . . such as a "strategic" piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere known as Leshp. It isn't much of an island that rises up one mo…
The third tale in a gloriously inventive fantasy sequence of tales about Tiffany Aching - young witch - and the Nac Mac Feegle - the Wee Free Men.
'Crivens!'
Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just…
"Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour."--Daily Mail
When the guy in…
Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz . . . has the energy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland . . . brilliant. A. S. Byatt
When war, magic…
"Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard sq…
"Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again. It's old news to Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch. But this time, somet…
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of…
"Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad . . . at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulf…
"One moment Commander of the City Watch Sam Vimes is chasing a murderer across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying in the street below, naked-and back in his own tough past thanks to a ligh…
"Corporal Carrot has been promoted and is now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and other dangerous Discworld denizens…
""The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it." Time is a resource that must be managed. It can be allowed to move quickly or slowly, but it must nev…
It's just one of those days when nothing seems to go right - and a most inopportune time for the first tourist ever to set foot in Discworld - accompanied by the carnivorous Luggage - to extend his alread…
Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchetts affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. . . . The prose crackles with wit and charm, and the sendups of league football, aca…
"For Commander Sam Vimes, Head of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life consists of trouble: a werewolf with pre-lunar tension, a dwarf with attitude, a golem who's begun to think for itself. Now he's got the…
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