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Terry Pratchett
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.
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The second Discworld novel in a special collector’s edition hardback - the funniest and most unorthodox fantasy series in this or any other galaxy.
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They don’t have much time for the givers of this world - except perhaps mealtimes - and even less for priests. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to…
The endemic politics of the place have ensured that it has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Unless of course one inept wizard…
A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs, who’s about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong? Yes .
‘Incredibly funny, compulsively readable’ The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of…
‘Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre’ Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat…
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for…
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…
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It’s an offer you can’t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It’s a job for…
"A master of laugh-out-loud fiction . . . Pratchett has created an alternate universe full of trolls, dwarfs, wizards, and other fantasy elements, and he uses that universe to reflect…
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"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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"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…
In the beginning there was …a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much…
"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…
"Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett's affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. . . . The prose crackles with wit and charm, and the…
"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…
"Patchett demonstrates just how great the distance is between one- and two-joke writers and the comic masters whose work will be read into the next century." --Locus
Magic, mayhem, and…
"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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"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…
"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…
The phenomenal SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller - twenty one rediscovered early short stories from the legendary global bestselling author, Sir Terry Pratchett.
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A must-have collection of shorter fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld novels
'Clever, neatly constructed and funny ... Pratchett…
Three fantastical and funny tales with full colour illustrations, the perfect introduction for younger readers to the world of master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett.
Three fantastical and funny tales of…
"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…
"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…
"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…
When you’re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long. After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to…
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…
Sir Terry Pratchett
The Illustrated Edition of the hilarious fantasy, co-written by Terry Pratchett, at age seventeen, and Terry Pratchett, at age forty-three
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then…
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Neil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett
They don’t let you go around again until you get it right'People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to…
It’s not easy being a teen witch, and it’s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that…
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an…
‘Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before him. It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of…
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First book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC’s The Watch ‘Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before him.
When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. As Death’s apprentice he’ll…
‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.