Published by Corgi, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Terry Pratchett
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780552166652
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EAN: 9780552166652
Published: 11 Oct 2012
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.'
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.
He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...
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'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'
- Guardian
'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'
- Independent
'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatologically-minded and J.R.R. Tolkien on speed'
- Daily Telegraph
'The best kind of parody - funny and smart and still a good story'
- Mail on Sunday
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 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, 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.
