Published by Corgi, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Terry Pratchett
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552153164
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EAN: 9780552153164
Published: 1 Aug 2005
'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'
Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world...
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Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year
- Sunday Express
Pratchett's most intriguing yet
- The Times
This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive
- Daily Telegraph
The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences
- New York Times
Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd
- The Sunday Times
His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction
- Mail on Sunday
Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable
- The Times
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
www.terrypratchett.co.uk
