Terry Pratchett Books In Order

Discworld Books In Publication Order

  1. The Colour of Magic (1983)
  2. The Light Fantastic (1986)
  3. Equal Rites (1987)
  4. Mort (1987)
  5. Sourcery (1988)
  6. Wyrd Sisters (1988)
  7. Pyramids (1989)
  8. Guards! Guards! (1989)
  9. Eric (1990)
  10. Moving Pictures (1990)
  11. Reaper Man (1991)
  12. Witches Abroad (1991)
  13. Small Gods (1992)
  14. Lords and Ladies (1992)
  15. Men at Arms (1993)
  16. Soul Music (1994)
  17. Interesting Times (1994)
  18. Maskerade (1995)
  19. Feet of Clay (1996)
  20. Hogfather (1996)
  21. Jingo (1997)
  22. The Last Continent (1998)
  23. Carpe Jugulum (1998)
  24. The Fifth Elephant (1999)
  25. The Truth (2000)
  26. Thief of Time (2001)
  27. The Last Hero (2001)
  28. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001)
  29. Night Watch (2002)
  30. The Wee Free Men (2003)
  31. Monstrous Regiment (2003)
  32. A Hat Full of Sky (2004)
  33. Going Postal (2004)
  34. Thud! (2005)
  35. Wintersmith (2006)
  36. Making Money (2007)
  37. Unseen Academicals (2007)
  38. I Shall Wear Midnight (2010)
  39. Snuff (2011)
  40. Raising Steam (2013)
  41. The Shepherd’s Crown (2015)

Science Of Discworld Books In Publication Order

  1. The Science of Discworld (1999)
  2. The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
  3. The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch (2005)
  4. The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (2013)

Discworld Companion Books In Publication Order

  1. The Streets of Ankh Morpork (1993)
  2. The Discworld Companion (1994)
  3. The Discworld Mapp (1995)
  4. The Pratchett Portfolio (1996)
  5. Discworld’s Diary Unseen University Diary 1998 (1997)
  6. Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary (1998)
  7. A Tourist Guide to Lancre (With: Stephen Briggs) (1998)
  8. Discworld Assassins’ Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (1999)
  9. Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook (With: Stephen Briggs,Tina Hannan) (1999)
  10. Death’s Domain (1999)
  11. Discworld Fools’ Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 (2000)
  12. GURPS Discworld Also (With: Phil Masters) (2000)
  13. Discworld Thieves’ Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002 (2001)
  14. Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre’s Diary 2003 (2002)
  15. The New Discworld Companion (2003)
  16. The Art of Discworld (2004)
  17. The Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005 (2004)
  18. The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007 (With: Stephen Briggs) (2006)
  19. The Unseen University Cut-Out Book (2006)
  20. Lu-Tze’s Yearbook of Enlightenment (With: Stephen Briggs) (2007)
  21. The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007)
  22. The Folklore of Discworld (With: Jacqueline Simpson) (2008)
  23. The Illustrated Eric (2010)
  24. The Compleat Ankh-Morpork: City Guide (2012)
  25. Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion…So Far (With: Stephen Briggs) (2012)
  26. Discworld Diary: We r Igors 2015: First and Last Aid (2014)
  27. Mrs Bradshaw’s Handbook: To Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway (2014)
  28. Discworld 2016 Diary: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch (2015)
  29. The Compleat Discworld Atlas (2015)
  30. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Colouring Book (2016)
  31. Discworld Diary 2017 (2016)
  32. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Diary 2019 (2018)
  33. Death and Friends: A Discworld Journal (2019)

Discworld Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Colour of Magic (1992)
  2. Mort Big Comic (1994)
  3. The Light Fantastic (1998)
  4. Small Gods (2016)

Discworld Plays In Publication Order

  1. Mort: The Play (With: Stephen Briggs) (1996)
  2. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (With: Stephen Briggs) (2003)
  3. Going Postal (With: Stephen Briggs) (2005)
  4. Jingo (With: Stephen Briggs) (2005)
  5. Monstrous Regiment (With: Stephen Briggs) (2005)
  6. Hogfather (With: Vadim Jean) (2007)
  7. The Colour of Magic (With: Vadim Jean) (2009)
  8. Carpe Jugulum (With: Stephen Briggs) (2010)
  9. Guards! Guards! (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  10. Interesting Times (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  11. Men at Arms (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  12. Mort (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  13. Wyrd Sisters (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  14. Lords and Ladies (With: Stephen Briggs) (2011)
  15. The Truth (With: Stephen Briggs) (2014)
  16. Making Money (With: Stephen Briggs) (2015)
  17. The Rince Cycle (With: Stephen Briggs) (2015)
  18. All the Discworld’s a Stage (With: Stephen Briggs) (2015)
  19. Maskerade (With: Stephen Briggs) (2015)

Discworld Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Where’s My Cow? (2005)
  2. The World of Poo (2012)

Bromeliad Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Truckers (1988)
  2. Diggers (1990)
  3. Wings (1990)

Children’s Circle Stories Books In Publication Order

  1. Dragons at Crumbling Castle (2014)
  2. The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories (2016)
  3. Father Christmas’s Fake Beard (2017)
  4. The Time-Travelling Caveman (2020)

Dodger Books In Publication Order

  1. Dodger (2012)
  2. Dodger’s Guide to London: Based on Original Notes Penned by Jack Dodger Himself (2013)

Johnny Maxwell Books In Publication Order

  1. Only You Can Save Mankind (1992)
  2. Johnny and the Dead (1993)
  3. Johnny and the Bomb (1996)

Long Earth Books In Publication Order

  1. The Long Earth (2012)
  2. The Long War (2013)
  3. The Long Mars (2014)
  4. The Long Utopia (2015)
  5. The Long Cosmos (2016)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Carpet People (1971)
  2. The Dark Side of The Sun (1976)
  3. Strata (1981)
  4. Good Omens (With: Neil Gaiman) (1990)
  5. Nation (2008)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Abominable Snowman (2014)
  2. Shaking Hands with Death (2015)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Once More* with Footnotes (2004)
  2. A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
  3. Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Tales (2014)
  4. Seriously Funny (2016)
  5. The Ankh-Morpork Archives, Vol. 1 (With: Stephen Briggs) (2019)
  6. The Ankh-Morpork Archives, Vol. 2 (With: Stephen Briggs) (2020)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. Johnny and the Dead: The Play (With: Stephen Briggs) (1996)
  2. Nation (With: Mark Ravenhill) (2008)
  3. Johnny and the Bomb (With: Matthew Holmes) (2012)
  4. The Shakespeare Codex (With: Stephen Briggs) (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
  2. A Slip of the Keyboard (2014)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Hidden Turnings (1989)
  2. After the King (1991)
  3. Imagined Lives (2010)

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Terry Pratchett Books Overview

The Colour of Magic

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn’t mean that some things don’t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea…
The Colour of Magic‘ is the first novel in Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

The Light Fantastic

Published in Britain at the end of 1986, this and its ”prequel” The Colour of Magic, above were among the top five best selling books on the 1986 Andromeda list. Moreover, Pratchett was Andromeda’s best selling author for the same year. It was also chosen as a lead title for Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club. ”Pratchett excels in both slapstick comedy and tongue in cheek wit.” Library Journal. ”That rare event, a comedy sequel that is twistier, plottier, and funnier than its predecessor…
The most hilarious fantasy since come to think of it, since Pratchett’s previous outing.” Kirkus Reviews. ”If you want a couple of hours of unadulterated fun, this is the book for you.” Science Fiction Chronicle.

Equal Rites

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late.

Mort

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can’t refuse especially since being, well, dead isn’t compulsory. As Death’s apprentice, he’ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won’t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he’d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.

Sourcery

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he’s turned up again, and this time he’s brought the Luggage.

But that’s not all…
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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 squared that’s all the math, really. Who of course, was a source of magic — a sorcerer.

Wyrd Sisters

Terry’s Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. Meet Granny Weatherwx, the most highly regarded non leader a coven of non social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don’t get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can’t help it. As Granny Weatherwzx is about to discover, though, it’s a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you’ve got a few unexpected spells up your sleave.

Pyramids

It’s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn’t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he’s been trained at Ankh Morpork’s famed assassins’ school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there’s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad a pyramid to end all Pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal not to mention a headstrong handmaiden at the heart of his realm.

Guards! Guards!

Some night time prowler is turning the mostly honest citizens of Ankh Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that’s a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy foot long fire breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries. But there’s more now we get to see Ankh Morpork in all its glory; illustrations so vibrant you can practically smell and taste the denizens of this delightful city although with Corporal Nobbs, you might rather wish you didn’t have to. All rendered in painstaking detail by Graham Higgins who feels he now knows altogether far too much about the murky goings on inside Nobbs’ head.

Eric

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 fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin’ hot babe.

But Eric isn’t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric’s. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there’s only one thing Eric wishes now — that he’d never been born!

Moving Pictures

Discworld’s pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they’ve discovered how to get gold from silver the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would be wizard turned extra. He can’t sing, he can’t dance, but he can handle a sword sort of, and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ing nue from a little town where else? you’ve probably never heard of.

But the click click of Moving Pictures isn’t just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood’s magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could have beens, the might bes, the never weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It’s up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog a star if ever one was born! to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they’re definitely not ready for their close up!

Reaper Man

They say there are only two things you can count on…
But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH’s demise soon leads to chaos and unrest literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been there done that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh Morpork’s undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living and everybody else, of course.

Witches Abroad

Be careful what you wish for…

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills–which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other not quite so good and wise godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it’s up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn’t marry the Prince.

But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house well this is a fairy tale, after all. The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who’ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper ‘happy ending’–even if it means destroying a kingdom.

Small Gods

Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle DISCWORLD a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.

Lords and Ladies

Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature. It’s a dreamy midsummer’s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren’t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won’t be only champagne that’s flowing through the streets…

Men at Arms

It was a dwarf’s dream. Captain Vimes of the Watch was retiring. That put Corporal Carrot in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh Morpork, Discworld’s greatest city, from the Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It was a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf who was so homesick for the gold mines of Ramtop that he often locked himself in the dark room and hit himself on the head with an axe handle, just for fun. It was a young lord’s nightmare. Edward, the 37th Lord d’Eath, newly graduated from the School for Assassins the ideal institution for those whose rank is higher than their intelligence, had made an astonishing discovery. Ankh Morpork, kingless for generations, and ruled by Disorganized Crime, had a sovereign! The new king just had to be convinces that he was, in fact, a king. Corporal Carrot had a job. Lord d’Eath had a Task. And so began the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which good and evil, greed and honor, trolls and dwarves, dogs and bells and swamp dragons would clash, crash, toll, bark, shimmer, and simmer. The fate of a city, indeed a kingdom nay, a very universe! was to depend on a young man’s courage, an ancient sword’s magic, and three legged poodle’s bladder. Don’t look so surprised. This is Discworld, where anything can happen. Which means that everything always does.

Soul Music

When her dear old Granddad the Grim Reaper himself goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death’s adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart goes ‘twang.’ With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of lint, Imp the Bard lands in Ankh Morpork, yearning to become a rock star. Determined to devote his life to music, the unlucky fellow soon finds that all his dreams are coming true. Well almost. In this finger snapping, toe tapping tale of youth, Death, and rocks that roll, Terry Pratchett once again demonstrates the wit and genius that have propelled him to the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

Interesting Times

‘May you live in Interesting Times‘ is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a ‘Great Wizzard’ arrives in Ankh Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it’s he who’s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire’s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls. However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.

Maskerade

It’s true, there’s a ghost in the Opera House of Ankh Morpork. Sardonic, flamboyant and, well, ghostly, it wears a bone-white Mask and terrorizes the entire company, including the immortal Enrico Basilica, who eats continuously even when he’s singing. Mostly spaghetti with tomato sauce.

What better way to flush out a ghost than with a witch? Or even two! And Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg happen to be in Discworld’s capital city trying to recruit a third since three witches make a coven, and two make only an argument.

Enter the Opera’s newest diva, the alarmingly fetching Perdita X. Nitt, who has such an astonishing range that she can sing harmony with herself, and is so agreeably large that she hangs out with the elephants in the cellar.

They say that inside every fat women there’s a thin woman struggling to get out or at least dying for chocolate. In Perdita’s case, the thin woman is more ambitious, since she would also dearly love to be a witch.

Beginning to get the picture? One would hope so. For this isn’t cheese. It’s opera, which runs on a Catastrophe Curve. And to further complicate matters, there is a backstage cat named Greebo who occasionally becomes a person just because it’s so easy. Not to mention Granny Weatherwax’s old friend, Death, whose scythe arm is sore from so much use.

And who has been known to don a Mask…

Feet of Clay

It’s murder in Discworld! which ordinarily is no big deal. But what bothers Watch Commander Sir Sam Vimes is that the unusual deaths of three elderly Ankh Morporkians do not bear the clean, efficient marks of the Assassins’ Guild. An apparent lack of any motive is also quite troubling. All Vimes has are some tracks of white clay and more of those bothersome ‘clue’ things that only serve to muck up an investigation. The anger of a fearful populace is already being dangerously channeled toward the city’s small community of golems the mindless, absurdly industrious creatures of baked clay who can occasionally be found toiling in the city’s factories. And certain highly placed personages are using the unrest as an excuse to resurrect a monarchy which would be bad enough even if the ‘king’ they were grooming wasn’t as empty headed as your typical animated pottery.

Hogfather

Better watch out…
It’s that time of year again. Hogswatchnight. Tis the season to be jolly, to hang mistletoe and holly, and other stuff ending in olly. Tis the season when the Hogfather himself dons his red suit and climbs in his sleigh pulled by of course! eight hogs and brings gifts to all the boys and girls of Discworld. But this year, there’s a problem. A stranger has taken the place of the Hogfather. Well, not exactly a stranger. He’s actually pretty well known. He carries a scythe along with his bag of toys, and he’s going to SLEIGH everyone he sees tonight. Ho ho ho. Even the laugh is wrong. The switch has been arranged by the Auditors, mysterious superbeings who want our universe to be a collection of rocks swinging in curves through space. Life is messy. Why not get rid of it? And who better than you know who?Somebody has to rescue the real Hogfather before this morbid impostor tracks soot on the world’s carpets. It’s up to Ankh Morpork’s intellectual elite, the assembled wizards of Unseen University with the help of a monster bashing nanny, the world’s worst inventor, plus a bona fide, honest to god god the oh god of hangovers, to be precise to come up with a plan to save the universe. And they’d better hurry. The bogus Hogfather is asking the wrong questions. Like: How come rich kids get all the nice toys? How come the poor kids are left with the cheap stuff?’That’s life,’ he is told. Which cuts no ice with Death.

Jingo

Something new has come up between the Discworld’s ancient rival cites of Ankh Morpork and Al Khali. Literally It’s up island, rising out of Discworld’s sea, uninhabited and claimed by both cities. Under International Law this situation clearly falls under the ancient doctrine of Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis ‘You Get What You Grab’. And everyone wants to grab. Besides, the Al Khalians may have invented algebra, astronomy and alcohol, but hey don’t have a word for lawyer, and how can you talk to people like that? Since there’s no basis for negotiation, it’s down to the long suffering Commander Vimes of the City Watch to deal with a crime as awful that there’s no law against it. It’s called war. Ankh Morpork has been at peace for a century, and so has Al Khali. But now there are people on both sides who think it’s time to give was a chance, and will happily help it on its way with a few murders…
Modern war needs modern weapons. Unfortunately, Ankh Morpork got rich making and selling them to Al Khali. But it’s just possible that salvation lies in the hands of the great inventive genius Leonard of Quirm, whose sketchbooks are filled with devices for killing people, flying through the air, and weighing cheese. Maybe it’s in his boat tat travels under water Leonard calls it a ‘Going Under The Water Safely Device’, or ‘metal sinking fish thing’ for short. Just because he’s an inventor doesn’t mean he’s good at naming stuff. But this is carrying something else a device that so powerful that it can finish any war. But don’t be alarmed. It’s fantasy. It all happens on Discworld, where greed and ignorance influence human behavior, politicians pursue was for selfish ends, and perfectly ordinary people occasionally act like raving idiots. A world, in short, totally unlike our own.

The Last Continent

Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh Morpork’s most prestigious i.e., only institution of higher learning. A professor is missing and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted you know how things change! into an ape a handy configuration for a librarian, don’t you think? so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name, least of all himself. But fear not, the search is on! The Lecturer in Recent Runes and the Chair of Indefinite Studies, as well as the Dean and the Archchancellor, will follow the trail wherever it leads even to the other side of Discworld, where The Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land as bald as a baby’s bottom, where there are no trees; where rain is but a myth; where there are precious few animals and few of them precious. You have just imagined Fourecks EcksEcksEcksEcks where even the ordinary is strange the four legged duck, for example, as though evolution is being hurried up with the intention of sorting things out as soon as possible. Experience the terror as the University’s bold would be rescuers encounter the cowardly Wizard Rincewind, a Mad Dwarf armed with a crossbow, Death, Death of Rats, and even a Creator or two. Feel the passion as the bizarre denizens of The Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls out of the sky and rivers actually fill with water. It utterly spoils regattas, for one thing. Thrill to the promise of next year’s regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It’ll be absolutely gujeroo.

Carpe Jugulum

It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England’s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.

Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett’s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld ‘more complicated and satisfying than Oz.’

His latest satiric triumph, Carpe Jugulum, involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.

Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there’s only one way to fight.

Go for the throat, or as the vampyres themselves say…

Carpe Jugulum

The Fifth Elephant

Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren’t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?…

When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn’t want to. He’s been ‘invited’ to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops even those clad in tights go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. It’s up to the dauntless Vimes bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. Which of course he does. After all, solving mysteries is his job. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants, but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels that feature the hard bitten captain of the Ankh Morpork City Watch, Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, iron, and fat but never silver he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves, and vampires in the theft of the Scone of Stone a particularly important piece of dwarf bread and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating.

Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is combined with a real sense of jeopardy that even favorite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always, the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story:

They say that The Fifth Elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains.

No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it philosophically speaking make a noise?

As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it.

All this, the usual guest appearances, and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. Roz Kaveney, Amazon. co. uk

The Truth

The denizens of Ankh Morpork fancy they’ve seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde’s upper crust, newsletter turned Discworld’s first paper of record.

An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating well, what else would it be? tabloid that conveniently interchanges what’s real for what sells.

But de Worde’s got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh Morpork’s leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don’t always tell the whole story. There’s that pesky little thing called The Truth

Thief of Time

It was only a matter of time before Terry Pratchett would win the minds and hearts of America. Already a worldwide sensation and Great Britain’s indisputable number one author, this intellectually audacious and effortlessly hilarious writer sold more hardcover books in the United Kingdom during the previous decade than any other living novelist. His novels have reigned supreme on English bestseller lists since before the Iron Lady left Downing Street, and though some things have changed since then, Pratchett, thankfully, continues to pen insightfully irreverent tales set in a world a lot like our own only different.

Celebrated as one of the keenest practitioners of satire and parody at work today alongside Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen Terry Pratchett commands a loyal and ever increasing number of readers and appreciative critics from coast to coast in our own country. As he skewers all aspects of modern life and especially our sacred cows Pratchett makes us laugh and challenges us to think. And he’s at his sharpest, most uproarious best in Thief of Time.

Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld its management is entrusted to the experts: the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it’s wasted, like underwater after all, how much time does a codfish really need? to places like cities, where harried citizens are forever lamenting, ‘Oh where does the time go?’

And while everyone always talks about slowing down, one clever soul is about to stop. Stop time, that is. For good. Going against everything known and the nine tenths of everything that remains unknown, a young horologist has been commissioned to build the world’s first truly accurate clock. It falls to History Monk Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd to find the timepiece and stop it before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, Time as we know it will stop. And then the trouble will really begin.

A superb send up of science and philosophy, religion and death after all, isn’t that where time stops, for most of us, anyway?, and a host of other timely topics, Thief of Time provides the perfect opportunity to kick back and unwind. So don’t put off till tomorrow what you could do today. Read Thief of Time. Right this minute. Because tomorrow may not come. You’ll have to read the book to find out why. This is a Terry Pratchett novel, after all.

Tick…

The Last Hero

A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, The Last Hero is an essential part of any Discworld collection. It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can remember when a hero didn’t have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn’t tell you off for killing dragons. But he can’t always remember, these days, where he put his teeth…
So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends — and they’re very old friends — Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He’s going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. The Last Hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That’ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal

One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.

They’d have been really amazed if they’d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.

The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets…
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Set in Terry Pratchett’s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world’s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper — or rats — the same way again!

Night Watch

This morning, Commander Vimes of the City Watch had it all. He was a Duke. He was rich. He was respected. He had a silver cigar case. He was about to become a father.

This morning he thought longingly about the good old days.

Tonight, he’s in them.

Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must get a new name and a job, and there’s only one job he’s good at: cop in the Watch. He must track down a brutal murderer. He must find his younger self and teach him everything he knows. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force fast. Because Sam Vimes knows what’s going to happen. He remembers it. He was there. It’s part of history. And you can’t change history…

But Sam is going to. He has no choice. Otherwise, a bloody revolution will start, and good men will die. Sam saw their names on old headstones just this morning but tonight they’re young men who think they have a future. And rather than let them die, Sam will do anything turn traitor, burn buildings, take over a revolt, anything to snatch them from the jaws of history. He will do it even if victory will mean giving up the only future he knows.

For if he succeeds, he’s got no wife, no child, no riches, no fame all that will simply vanish. But if he doesn’t try, he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes.

And so the battle is on. He knows how it’s going to end; after all, he was there. His name is on one of those headstones. But that’s just a minor detail…

The Wee Free Men

‘Another world is colliding with this one,’ said the toad. ‘All the monsters are coming back.’ ‘Why?’ said Tiffany. ‘There’s no one to stop them. There was silence for a moment. Then Tiffany said, ‘There’s me.’ Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch to be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnaped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk’s local Nac Mac Feegle aka The Wee Free Men a clan of sheep stealing, sword wielding, six inch high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream spinning dromes, and grimhounds black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone…
. In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.

Monstrous Regiment

War has come to Discworld…
again.

And, to no one’s great surprise, the conflict centers on the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on it’s ability to beat up on its neighbors for even the tiniest imagined slight. This time, however, it’s Borogravia that’s getting its long overdue comeuppance, which has left the country severely drained of young men.

Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess,her family’s inn even though the revered national deity Nuggan has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination with, among others, oysters, rocks, and the color blue. To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man’s army.

Despite her rapid mastery of belching, scratching, and other macho habits and aided by a well placed pair of socks, Polly is afraid that someone will immediately see through her disguise; a fear that proves groundless when the recruiting officer, the legendary and seemingly ageless Sergeant Jackrum, accepts her without question. Or perhaps the sergeant is simply too desperate for fresh cannon fodder to discriminate which would explain why a vampire, a troll, a zombie, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close ‘friends’ are also eagerly welcomed into the fighting fold. But marching off with little read: no training, Polly now called ‘Oliver’ finds herself wondering about the myriad peculiarities of her new brothers in arms. It would appear that Polly ‘Ozzer’ Perks is not the only grunt with a secret. There is no time to dwell on such matters, however. Duty calls. The battlefield beckons. There’s a tide to be turned.

And sometimes in war as in everything else the best man for the job is a woman.

A Hat Full of Sky

The Hero*ine: Tiffany Aching, incipient witch and cheese maker extraordinaire. Once saved world from Queen of the Elves. Is about to discover that battling evil monarchs is child’s play compared to mortal combat with a Hiver see below. At eleven years old, is boldest hero*ine ever to have confronted the Forces of Darkness while armed with a frying pan.

The Threat: A Hiver, insidious disembodied presence drawn to powerful magic. highly dangerous, frequently lethal. Cannot be stopped with iron or fire. Its target: Tiffany Aching see above.

The Nac Mac Feegle: A.k.a. the Wee Free Men. Height: six inches. Color: blue. Famed for drinking, stealing, and fighting. Will attack anything larger than themselves. Members include: Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie, and Awfully Wee Billy Bigchin. Allies to Tiffany Aching see above.

The Book: Hilarious, breathtaking, spine tingling sequel to the acclaimed Wee Free Men.

The Author: Terry Pratchett, celebrated creator of the internationally best selling Discworld series. Carnegie Medalist and writer extraordinaire.

Going Postal

Arch swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into…
a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it’s Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t…
Inspiring words admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen, and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what’s called for, he’ll do it in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem requires: hope.

Thud!

Once, in a gods forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh Morpork’s more diminutive citizens a volatile situation made far worse when the pint size provocateur is discovered bashed to death…
with a troll club lying conveniently nearby.

Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the importance of solving the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. Vimes’s second most pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six p.m. sharp to read Where’s My Cow? to Sam, Jr. But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh Morpork’s streets. And the deadly puzzle is pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself.

Wintersmith

At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you’re thirteen…
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But the Wintersmith isn’t exactly a boy. He is Winter itself snow, gales, icicles all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.

Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She’ll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. They

Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She’ll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland whether she wants it or not.

It’s going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn’t survive until Spring

Spring won’t come.

Making Money

Postmaster general Moist von Lipwig, former arch swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations in running the Ankh Morpork Post Office. So it’s somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, ‘Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?’ Vetinari isn’t talking about wages. He’s referring to the Royal Mint of Ankh Morpork that has run on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds, who do make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counter intuitive. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari’s question, fate answers it for him. Now he’s not only Making Money, but enemies, too; he’s got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face and, above all, find out where all the gold has gone otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short…

Unseen Academicals

The wizards at Ankh Morpork’s Unseen University are renowned for many things wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city’s benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive an erstwhile tradition and once again put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff, the wizards of UU find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport soccer with a bit of rugby thrown in so popular with Ankh Morporkians of all ages and social strata. Then they have to learn how to play it. Oh, and on top of that, they must win a football match without using magic. Meanwhile, Trev a handsome street urchin and a right good kicker falls hard for kitchen maid Juliet beautiful, dim, and perhaps the greatest fashion model there ever was, and Juliet’s best pal, UU night cook Glenda homely, sensible, and a baker of jolly good pies befriends the mysterious Mr. Nutt about whom no one knows very much, including Mr. Nutt, which is worrisome…
. As the big match approaches, these four lives are entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about football the most important thing about football is that it is never just about football.

I Shall Wear Midnight

It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer…
. Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren t sparkly, aren t fun, don t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. Chilling drama combines with laughout loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.

Snuff

For nearly three decades, Terry Pratchett has enthralled millions of fans worldwide with his irreverent, wonderfully funny satires set in the fabulously imaginative Discworld, a universe remarkably similar to our own. From sports to religion, politics to education, science to capitalism, and everything in between, Pratchett has skewered sacred cows with both laughter and wisdom, and exposed our warts, foibles, and eccentricities in a unique, entertaining, and ultimately serious way. At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city born and bred copper. Yet a policeman will find a crime anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and it’s not long before a body is discovered, and Sam out of his jurisdiction, out of his element, and out of bacon sandwiches thanks to his well meaning wife must rely on his instincts, guile, and street smarts to see justice done. As he sets off on the chase, though, he must remember to watch where he steps…
. This is the countryside, after all, and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold. Hailed as the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse Washington Post Book World, with a satirist s instinct for the absurd and a cartoonist s eye for the telling detail Daily Telegraph, London, Terry Pratchett offers a novel of crime, class, prejudice, and punishment that shows this master at his dazzling best.

The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a dozy Neanderthal village. The Renaissance is given a push. The role of fat women in art is developed. And one very famous playwright gets born and writes The Play. Weaving together a fast paced Discworld novelette with cutting edge scientific commentary on the evolution and development of the human mind, culture, language, art, and science, this is a book in which ‘the hard science is as gripping as the fiction’. The Times

The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch

The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history. Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures that lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it s all gone wrong Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won t be time for anyone to invent space flight, and the human race will be turned into ice pops. Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale s dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin whose bestselling Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures?Can the God of Evolution come to humanity s aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place?From the Hardcover edition.

The Streets of Ankh Morpork

A full-colour fold-out map A1 size detailing the streets of the Discworld’s most important city, Ankh-Morpork. It includes all the landmarks of the novels, including the Unseen University, the Shades and the Mended Drum.

The Discworld Mapp

By the author of The Streets of Ankh Morpork and The Discworld Companion, this pack contains a detailed color map of the Discworld, plus a booklet with lots of wacky facts and figures.

The Pratchett Portfolio

Terry Pratchett’s incredible Discworld, floating through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle, supports some of the most popular characters ever imagined in the world of fantasy fiction. But the Discworld people are real, and here they are, warts except, of course, in the case of Granny Weatherwax and all, from Rincewind the incompetent wizard to Greebo, the rather too human cat. once there were five, but that’s another story

A Tourist Guide to Lancre (With: Stephen Briggs)

Between Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Widdershins Ocean, lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain in all Discworld. This is a map of Lancre, where Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick live.

Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook (With: Stephen Briggs,Tina Hannan)

They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach which just goes to show they’re as confused about anatomy as they gen’rally are about everything else, unless they’re talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. Anyway, we do not live in a perfect world and it is foresighted and useful for a young woman to become proficient in those arts which will keep a weak willed man from straying. Learning to cook is also useful. Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld’s most famous witches, here pas*ses on some of her huge collection of tasty and interesting recipes. In addition to such dishes as Nobby’s Mum’s Distressed Pudding, Mrs. Ogg imparts her thoughts on such matters as life, death, and courtship, all in a refined style that should not offend the most delicate of sensibilities. Well, not much. Most of the recipes have been tried out on people who are still alive.

Death’s Domain

This discworld map reveals the house and garden that Death built. It shows the golf course that’s not so much crazy as insane, as well as the dark gardens. You can also find out the reason why Death can’t understand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.

GURPS Discworld Also (With: Phil Masters)

In GURPS Discworld, gamers visited the strange and wonderful setting of Terry Pratchett’s best selling novels. Everyone had such a good time that we’ve booked a second trip! Our guide for GURPS Discworld Also will again be Phil Masters; he promises that the Dungeon Dimensions are not on the itinerary, and Mr Dibbler’s meat pies are not on the menu.
You will, however, visit the Lost Continent of X*XX and its Cart Wars, meet the Hermit Elephants and a very big troll, and go on a mission for Unseen University to find out why the Librarian’s supply of bananas has dried up…

The New Discworld Companion

The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across if they weren’t so knobbly, rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety’s sake, you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition, the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published 1997, covers the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards, including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS, as well as the Diaries, the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.

The Art of Discworld

In The Art of Discworld, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following on from THE LAST HERO, The Art of Discworld is a lavish 112 page large format, sumptuously illustrated look at all things Discworldian. Terry Pratchett provides the written descriptions while Paul Kidby illustrates the world that has made Pratchett one of the best selling authors of all time. Here you will find favourites old and new: the City Watch, including Vimes, Carrot and Angua, the three witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick and the denizens of the Unseen University Library, not forgetting the Librarian, of course: they’re all here in sumptuous colour, together with the places: Ankh Morpork, Lancre, Uberwald and more…
No Discworld fan will want to be without this beautiful gift book.

The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007 (With: Stephen Briggs)

The Post Office: this musty, dusty and sh y organisation was jolted back into life in GOING POSTAL. Hidebound and rulebound, the Post Office is creaking towards a brave new world of efficiency and it may even deliver the mail, too. But like all bureaucracies, the Ankh Morpork Post Office has its rules and regulations and these, together with the history of this once great department, are highlighted and parodied in the Ankh Morpork Post Office Handbook. How do you send eggs through the Post Office? What size envelope is banned? And what happens when snails start eating the mail? It’s all here in the Ankh Morpork Post Office Handbook and Diary 2007. that’s of the pigeon guano type, of course.

The Unseen University Cut-Out Book

A must have accessory for the most dedicated Pratchett fans a Discworld cut out book for adults. The phenomenal Discworld series has a new addition to its growing ho*ard of artifacts a cut out book for adults. An extraordinary feat of paper engineering, the cut out book contains the makings of a detailed 3 D model of the Unseen University, Discworld’s most ancient and complex building. Colourful and intricate, this paper sculpture will provide hours of fun for the true Discworld aficionado.

Lu-Tze’s Yearbook of Enlightenment (With: Stephen Briggs)

Lu Tze is a senior History Monk, also known as Sweeper. Although thought to be 800 years old, there are some who claim he is older yet…
5,200 years older, in fact, because for the History Monks, time is a resource to manipulate, and they do…
Lu Tze, a bald, yellow toothed little man with a wispy beard, has a faintly amiable grin, as if constantly waiting for something amusing to happen, and a handy epithet for every occasion. In his life, Lu Tze has done everything, and his past deeds are legend amongst the History Monks. He is a follower of The Way of Mrs Marietta Cosmopilite. He also grows Bonsai mountains. LU TZE’S YEARBOOK OF ENLIGHTMENT including The Way of Mrs Cosmopilite is the ideal companion for those seeking truth and harmony and, well, the meaning to life though he doesn’t guarantee it will be the right meaning…

The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld

For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp as tacks witches, by tired policemen and devious dictators, by reformed thieves and vampires who have sworn to drink no blood. It is a world that is vastly different from our own…
except when it isn’t. Now, in The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld, various nuggets of Pratchett’s witty commentary and sagacious observations have been compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs, a man who, they say, knows even more about Discworld than Terry Pratchett. Within these pages, you’ll find musings on: Interior decorating: ‘It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow, or surgical appliance pink. By some little understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.’ Equal Rites Travel: ‘Any seasoned traveler soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a ‘regional speciality,’ because all the term means is that the dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their own legs rather than eat it. But hosts still press it upon distant guests anyway: ‘Go on, have the dog’s head stuffed with macerated cabbage and pork noses it’s a regional speciality.” The Last Continent Young men: ‘And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self defense against all those other big boys out there. I’m bad, I’m fierce, I’m cool, I’d like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine.’ Monstrous Regiment Class: ”Old money’ meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds that had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that; a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave taking pirate for a great great great grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bast*ards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.’ Making Money…
and more! Culled from all the Discworld novels, The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld confirms Pratchett’s place in the pantheon of great satirists and proves why the Chicago Tribune has praised his Discworld as ‘entertaining and gloriously funny…
an accomplishment nothing short of magical.’

The Folklore of Discworld (With: Jacqueline Simpson)

Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth. Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, and fairy tales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got here. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings, which on Earth are creatures of the imagination like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods are real, alive and, in some cases kicking, on the Disc. In The Folklore of Discworld, Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to take an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld. From the Hardcover edition.

The Illustrated Eric

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 fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin’ hot babe.

But Eric isn’t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric’s. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there’s only one thing Eric wishes now — that he’d never been born!

The Colour of Magic

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn’t mean that some things don’t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea…
The Colour of Magic‘ is the first novel in Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

Mort Big Comic

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can’t refuse especially since being, well, dead isn’t compulsory. As Death’s apprentice, he’ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won’t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he’d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.

The Light Fantastic

Published in Britain at the end of 1986, this and its ”prequel” The Colour of Magic, above were among the top five best selling books on the 1986 Andromeda list. Moreover, Pratchett was Andromeda’s best selling author for the same year. It was also chosen as a lead title for Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club. ”Pratchett excels in both slapstick comedy and tongue in cheek wit.” Library Journal. ”That rare event, a comedy sequel that is twistier, plottier, and funnier than its predecessor…
The most hilarious fantasy since come to think of it, since Pratchett’s previous outing.” Kirkus Reviews. ”If you want a couple of hours of unadulterated fun, this is the book for you.” Science Fiction Chronicle.

Small Gods

Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle DISCWORLD a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy as Hell.

Mort: The Play (With: Stephen Briggs)

Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, this tells the story of Mort, who has been chosen as Death’s apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn’t even need time off for his grandmother’s funeral. The trouble begins when instead of collecting the soul of a princess, he kills her would be assassin, and changes history.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (With: Stephen Briggs)

Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal

One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town.

They’d have been really amazed if they’d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money.

The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets…
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Set in Terry Pratchett’s widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world’s most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper — or rats — the same way again!

Going Postal (With: Stephen Briggs)

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud, and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision.

With the help of a golem who has been at the bottom of a hole in the ground for over two hundred years, a pin fanatic, and Junior Postman Groat, he’s got to see that the mail gets through. In taking on the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company and a midnight killer, he’s also got to stay alive.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

In the mad world of the mail, can a criminal succeed where honest men have failed and died? Perhaps there’s a shot at redemption for a man who’s prepared to push the envelope…

Going Postal is the stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett‘s latest best selling Discworld novel.

Jingo (With: Stephen Briggs)

Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid, and at least one very camp follower. As two armies march, Commander Vimes faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him and that’s just the people on his side. A great stage adaptation by Stephen Briggs of Terry Pratchett’s best selling novel.

Terry Pratchett has sold 27 million books worldwide. Stephen Briggs is his chosen stage adaptor.

Monstrous Regiment (With: Stephen Briggs)

War has come to Discworld…
again.

And, to no one’s great surprise, the conflict centers on the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on it’s ability to beat up on its neighbors for even the tiniest imagined slight. This time, however, it’s Borogravia that’s getting its long overdue comeuppance, which has left the country severely drained of young men.

Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess,her family’s inn even though the revered national deity Nuggan has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination with, among others, oysters, rocks, and the color blue. To keep The Duchess in the family, Polly must find her missing sibling. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and sets out to join him in this man’s army.

Despite her rapid mastery of belching, scratching, and other macho habits and aided by a well placed pair of socks, Polly is afraid that someone will immediately see through her disguise; a fear that proves groundless when the recruiting officer, the legendary and seemingly ageless Sergeant Jackrum, accepts her without question. Or perhaps the sergeant is simply too desperate for fresh cannon fodder to discriminate which would explain why a vampire, a troll, a zombie, a religious fanatic, and two uncommonly close ‘friends’ are also eagerly welcomed into the fighting fold. But marching off with little read: no training, Polly now called ‘Oliver’ finds herself wondering about the myriad peculiarities of her new brothers in arms. It would appear that Polly ‘Ozzer’ Perks is not the only grunt with a secret. There is no time to dwell on such matters, however. Duty calls. The battlefield beckons. There’s a tide to be turned.

And sometimes in war as in everything else the best man for the job is a woman.

Hogfather (With: Vadim Jean)

Hogswatchnight is fast approaching, and the Hogfather that jolly fat man who delivers presents to the kiddies is missing. But it’s vital that all the presents are delivered, otherwise the sun won’t rise tomorrow. However, there is another supernatural entity who can be everywhere at once and, most importantly, knows where everybody lives. And Death reckons that with a false beard and a few cushions, it might just work. And while Death is busy working out the mysteries of climbing down chimneys and drinking sherry, it’s up to Susan to track down the real Hogfather. It’s a dark time of the year. There are monsters afoot. And some of them look just like us. HO HO HO. You’d better watch out…
Terry Pratchett’s bestseller, adapted and directed by Vadim Jean, is a two part live action/CGI film for Sky One starring David Jason and a host of other great British character actors.

The Colour of Magic (With: Vadim Jean)

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn’t mean that some things don’t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea…
‘The Colour of Magic’ is the first novel in Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

Carpe Jugulum (With: Stephen Briggs)

It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England’s best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.

Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.

Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett’s intricate and delightful fictional Discworld ‘more complicated and satisfying than Oz.’

His latest satiric triumph, Carpe Jugulum, involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.

Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there’s only one way to fight.

Go for the throat, or as the vampyres themselves say…

Carpe Jugulum

Guards! Guards! (With: Stephen Briggs)

Some night time prowler is turning the mostly honest citizens of Ankh Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that’s a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy foot long fire breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries. But there’s more now we get to see Ankh Morpork in all its glory; illustrations so vibrant you can practically smell and taste the denizens of this delightful city although with Corporal Nobbs, you might rather wish you didn’t have to. All rendered in painstaking detail by Graham Higgins who feels he now knows altogether far too much about the murky goings on inside Nobbs’ head.

Interesting Times (With: Stephen Briggs)

‘May you live in interesting times’ is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a ‘Great Wizzard’ arrives in Ankh Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it’s he who’s sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to follow the impending demise of the Agatean Empire’s current ruler. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the war and wholesale bloodletting that will surely ensue. Carnage is pretty much a given, since Cohen the Barbarian and his extremely elderly Silver Horde are busily formulating their own plan for looting, pillaging, and, er, looking wistfully at girls. However, Rincewind firmly believes there are too many heroes already in the world, yet only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.

Men at Arms (With: Stephen Briggs)

Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, in this book the Ankh Morpork City Night Watch find their services are once more needed to tackle a threat to their city. A threat deadly as a 60 foot dragon, but mechanical and heartless it kills without compunction.

Mort (With: Stephen Briggs)

Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, this tells the story of Mort, who has been chosen as Death’s apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn’t even need time off for his grandmother’s funeral. The trouble begins when instead of collecting the soul of a princess, he kills her would be assassin, and changes history.

Wyrd Sisters (With: Stephen Briggs)

Terry’s Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. Meet Granny Weatherwx, the most highly regarded non leader a coven of non social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don’t get involved in anything, mush less royal intrigue. but then there are those times they can’t help it. As Granny Weatherwzx is about to discover, though, it’s a lot harder to stir up trouble in the castle than some theatrical types would have you think. Even when you’ve got a few unexpected spells up your sleave.

Lords and Ladies (With: Stephen Briggs)

Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature. It’s a dreamy midsummer’s night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren’t the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won’t be only champagne that’s flowing through the streets…

The Truth (With: Stephen Briggs)

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett’s best selling novelsThere’s been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld’s first investigative journalist. He didn’t mean to be it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh Morpork’s society are plotting to overthrow te city’s ruler, Lord Vetinari.

Making Money (With: Stephen Briggs)

Postmaster general Moist von Lipwig, former arch swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations in running the Ankh Morpork Post Office. So it’s somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, ‘Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?’ Vetinari isn’t talking about wages. He’s referring to the Royal Mint of Ankh Morpork that has run on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds, who do make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counter intuitive. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari’s question, fate answers it for him. Now he’s not only making money, but enemies, too; he’s got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face and, above all, find out where all the gold has gone otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short…

Maskerade (With: Stephen Briggs)

It’s true, there’s a ghost in the Opera House of Ankh Morpork. Sardonic, flamboyant and, well, ghostly, it wears a bone-white Mask and terrorizes the entire company, including the immortal Enrico Basilica, who eats continuously even when he’s singing. Mostly spaghetti with tomato sauce.

What better way to flush out a ghost than with a witch? Or even two! And Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg happen to be in Discworld’s capital city trying to recruit a third since three witches make a coven, and two make only an argument.

Enter the Opera’s newest diva, the alarmingly fetching Perdita X. Nitt, who has such an astonishing range that she can sing harmony with herself, and is so agreeably large that she hangs out with the elephants in the cellar.

They say that inside every fat women there’s a thin woman struggling to get out or at least dying for chocolate. In Perdita’s case, the thin woman is more ambitious, since she would also dearly love to be a witch.

Beginning to get the picture? One would hope so. For this isn’t cheese. It’s opera, which runs on a Catastrophe Curve. And to further complicate matters, there is a backstage cat named Greebo who occasionally becomes a person just because it’s so easy. Not to mention Granny Weatherwax’s old friend, Death, whose scythe arm is sore from so much use.

And who has been known to don a Mask…

Where’s My Cow?

This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily!

Truckers

They’re four inches tall in a human sized world. Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four inch tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: ‘Everything Under One Roof.’ Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense. That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside, talking about Day and Night and Snow and other crazy legends. And they soon uncover devastating news: The Store is about to be demolished. It’s up to Masklin, one of the Outside nomes, to devise a daring escape plan that will forever change the nomes’ vision of the world…
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Diggers

The nomes are ready for their Bright New Dawn! But the trouble with Bright New Dawns is that they’re usually followed by cloudy days. With scattered showers. Life Outside the Store is much colder than the four inch tall nomes expected. And there aren’t any walls…
it’s all very unsettling. Still, the nomes are finally adjusting to their new home at the abandoned quarry, when a Sign arrives announcing the quarry is to be reopened. The humans are coming to mess things up as usual, but this time the nomes might just fight back if they can find a way to rouse the mysterious Dragon in the Hill.

Wings

Somewhere out there, the ship is waiting to take them home…
Here’s what Masklin has to do: Find Grandson Richard Arnold a human!. Get from England to Florida possibly steal jet plane for this purpose, as that can’t be harder than stealing the truck. Find a way to the ‘launch’ of a ‘communications satellite’ whatever those are. Then get the Thing into the sky so that it can call the Ship to take the nomes back to where they came from. It’s an impossible plan. But he doesn’t know that, so he tries to do it anyway. Because everyone back at the quarry is depending on him and because the future of nomekind may be at stake…

Only You Can Save Mankind

The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind. Suddenly: We wish to talk. Huh? We surrender. The aliens aren’t supposed to surrender they’re supposed to die! Now what is Johnny going to do with a fleet of alien prisoners who know their rights under the international rules of war and are demanding safe conduct? It’s hard enough trying to save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It’s even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it’s just a game, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Master storyteller Terry Pratchett leaves readers breathless with laughter, and with suspense in a reality bending tale of virtual heroism.

Johnny and the Dead

Post life citizens
Breath challenged
Vertically disadvantaged
buried, not short

Johnny Maxwell’s new friends not appreciate the term ‘ghosts,’ but they are, well, dead.

The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren’t about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn’t mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn’t speak up, who will?

In Johnny Maxwell’s second adventure, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett explores the bonds between the living and the dead and proves that it’s never too late to have the time of your life even if it is your afterlife!

Johnny and the Bomb

Twelve year old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!

An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It’s history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable and drastic effects on the future.

But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?

Mixing nail biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell’s third adventure.

The Carpet People

In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet…
That’s the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there’s a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power hungry mouls and of two Munrung brothers, who set out on an amazing adventure. It’s a story that will come to a terrible end if someone doesn’t do something about it. If everyone doesn’t do something about it…
Co written by Terry Pratchett, aged seventeen, and master storyteller, Terry Pratchett, aged forty three.

Strata

THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS. Kin Arad is a high ranking official of the Company. After twenty one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, End Nuclear Testing Now , doesn t dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high spirited youth. But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new First published in 1981, Strata is an early exploration of the idea that was to become the bestselling Discworld series.

Good Omens (With: Neil Gaiman)

There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world’s last two remaining witch finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring…
. Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast living demon each of whom has lived among Earth’s mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they’ve got to find and kill the Antichrist which is a shame, as he’s a really nice kid. There’s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him…
. First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind’s final judgment is back and just in time in a new hardcover edition which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.

Nation

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his Nation. He’s also completely alone or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She’s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, all she has for company is the boy and the foul mouthed ship’s parrot. As it happens, they are not alone for long. Other survivors start to arrive to take refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good thing and start to forge a new Nation. As can be expected from Terry Pratchett, the master story teller, this new children’s novel is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of death and Nationhood, while being extremely funny. Mau’s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone’s lives!

Johnny and the Dead: The Play (With: Stephen Briggs)

Post life citizens
Breath challenged
Vertically disadvantaged
buried, not short

Johnny Maxwell’s new friends not appreciate the term ‘ghosts,’ but they are, well, dead.

The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren’t about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn’t mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn’t speak up, who will?

In Johnny Maxwell’s second adventure, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett explores the bonds between the living and the dead and proves that it’s never too late to have the time of your life even if it is your afterlife!

Nation (With: Mark Ravenhill)

Following the National Theatre’s success with plays based on novels by well loved children’s writers like Philip Pulman ‘His Dark Materials’, Jamila Gavin ‘Coram Boy’ and Michael Morpurgo ‘War Horse’, the National now stages Mark Ravenhill’s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau’s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other’s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe’s fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.

The Unadulterated Cat

The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass produced cats the ad men sell us the pussies that purr into their gold plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they’ve been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars…
or appear on Christmas cards…
or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away…

After the King

After the King presents an outstanding collection of new fantasy stories by an extraordinary assemblage of some of the very best writers to ever continue the tradition Tolkien began with The Lord of the Rings. Stephen R. Donaldson, Peter S. Beagle, Andrew Nortong, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, Judith Tarr, Gregory Benford, Jane Yolen, Poul and Karen Anderson, Mike Resnick, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, John Brunner, Harrr Turtledove, Dennis L. McKiernan, Karen Haber, Barry M. Malzberg, and Charles de Lint contribute to a dazzling anthology that captures the spirit and originality of Tolkien’s great work. The millions whose lives have been touched by J.R.R. Tolkien will find the same primal storytelling magic here, undiluted an running ever on.

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