Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett

Rincewind is a wizard, but frankly he's not very good at wizardry. The letters on his hat spell WIZZARD and even on Discworld that's a misspelling. But Rincewind has one great talent: surviving. This will come in handy when he's hired by Twoflower, Discworld's first tourist and owner of the many-footed, cranky and carnivorous Luggage.

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Rincewind and Twoflower are back along with the Luggage. Back when he was a student, Rincewind had sneaked a look at a book in the Unseen University Library. One of wizardry's eight most powerful spells escaped from the book and took up residence in Rincewind's head, and now that spell is needed to prevent Discworld's destruction as the Great A'tuin appears headed for a malevolent red star.

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Just before dying, a wizard passes on his staff to what he thought was the eighth son of an eighth son. The only problem is Eskarina is a daughter. Wizardry has been an all-male profession, but Esk is determined to change all that.






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Death comes to us all, they say, and when he came to Mort, the hapless son of a farmer, in the closing minutes of a hiring fair, he offered Mort a job. As Death's assistant, Mort is sent out one day to usher the soul of Princess Kelirehenna of Sto Lat into the netherworld. Instead, he saves her from being assassinated. This upsets reality somewhat, which insists she must be dead.

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The eighth son of an eighth son becomes a wizard. The eighth son of a wizard becomes a sourcerer, far more dangerous and power-hungry than any wizard. The young Coin is such a person. He's guided by a staff imbued with the spirit of a deceased wizard who tries to keep things in line. Coin takes over Unseen University, burns the library and a battle of powerful magic is waged.

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Cranky and cantankerous Esme "Granny" Weatherwax makes a second appearance as part of a small coven consisting of her, old Nanny Ogg and young Magrat who seems to have a definite New Age mindset (and a mother who wasn't a great speller). The king of Lancre has been murdered by the Duke, who just can't seem to wash the blood off his hands. The king's son is 15 years away from being old enough to rule. The kingdom itself is very unhappy with the Duke in charge. Witches don't usually get involved in royal politics, but it seems like some heavy-duty boiling, bubbling, toiling and troubling may be needed.

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Teppic, son of King Teppicymon XXVII of Djelibeybi, a 7,000-year-old kingdom that's only a few miles wide but very long, leaves for the city of Ankh-Morpork to become an Assassin. At the end of seven years he graduates and becomes a member of the Assassin's Guild, but then his father dies and Teppic returns to become, quite reluctantly, the new king. Against his and his father's wishes, the largest of many pyramids is constructed to house his father in the netherworld. Pyramids have magical powers, and the new one is so big things get out of hand.

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The Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night have a plan to overthrow the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork and install a king. They've managed to pinch a book, "The Summoning of Dragons," from the library of Unseen University, which really ticks off the Librarian. Meanwhile, Carrot Ironfoundersson, a six-foot, six-inch human who thinks he's a dwarf because he was raised among them, travels to the city to volunteer for the City Watch, a small and ineffectual group led by Captain Sam Vimes. The Watch is more interested in avoiding trouble than fighting crime, until Carrot, full of enthusiasm and armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of the city's laws, arrests the head of the Thieves' Guild. This surprises everyone from the Patrician to Captain Vimes and especially the head of the Thieves' Guild. Just when Vimes thinks things couldn't get much worse, enter the dragon.

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13-year-old demonologist Eric Thursley doesn't want much from life, only mastery of all kingdoms, to meet the most beautiful woman who ever lived and, of course, to live forever. His attempt to summon up a demon to grant these wishes nets him Rincewind, the wizard of extraordinary incompetence, and the Luggage. From there, things pretty much go to Hell.

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After the death of a guardian in a little sunny land of a hill and sand dunes known as Holy Wood, an idea escapes, travels the thirty miles to Ankh-Morpork, and gets into the heads of some alchemists, who invent a rather explosive product a lot like film and begin to use it to record rapid series of pictures that appear, when projected on a sheet, to move. They decide, although they're not sure why or how, to move out to Holy Wood where the light's better. They're soon followed by a lot of people who decide they want to be part of what's happening. Among them are Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, seller of sausages and anything else, who wangles his way into becoming a producer of "clicks" as the one- and two-reel films are called. Also drawn to the action are Victor Tugelbend, a student of Unseen University determined to never graduate, and Theda "Ginger" Withel, a small-town girl determined to escape the life of a milkmaid. Stars are born and Reality is distorted.

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Whenever a wizard dies on Discworld, Death always comes to usher him to the netherworld. But when 130-year-old wizard Windle Poons dies, Death isn't there. Death has been informed his own time will be up soon. So Poons becomes one of the undead and the absence of Death leads to a buildup of life force in the world, which causes all sorts of strange effects (strange even for Discworld, that is) leaving wizards and priests alike puzzled. And how do mysteriously-appearing snow globes and shopping trolleys figure into it all?

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The small coven of Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick are back. In the far-off land of Genua, an evil witch is turning the entire country into a fairy tale. Part of her plan is to have Ella, her godchild and a servant girl, marry the Duc, the country's puppet ruler. Ella's other godmother, who is dying in Lancre, home of the coven, wills her magic wand to Magrat. The three witches travel to Genua, a journey fraught with adventure, and must battle the evil witch to stop the marriage. Several classic fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella figure into this story, and it is revealed that the Duc is knee deep in his own fairy tale.

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When the great god Om manifests himself in time for the revelation of his eighth prophet, he finds himself in the body of a tortoise with no divine powers. In the city Omnia, he finds the novice Brutha in a garden. Brutha is the only person who can hear him, and Brutha's not terribly bright. Vorbis, head of the Quisition, takes Brutha along on a diplomatic mission to Ephebe, where Brutha's eidetic memory aids Omnian raiders in attacking the palace through the Labyrinth. Vorbis, Brutha and Om, fleeing the ensuing unpleasantness, end up shipwrecked and stranded in a desert, where they meet the Small Gods, pale shadows yearing for someone to believe in them so they can regain power.

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Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax and Magrat Garlick return from their adventures in Witches Abroad to find amateur witchcraft practitioners have weakened the fabric of fantasy. Elves have broken through and the three must defeat them. Magrat's having misgivings about her impending wedding to King Verence II of Lancre. The plot includes many references to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This novel really requires the reader to have read Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad for full appreciation.

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Ankh-Morpork's Patrician faces another challenge to his rule as Edward d'Eath, an Assassin, sets out to track down the lost heir to the city's throne. Captain Sam Vimes of the City Watch is about to marry Sybil Ramkin, swamp dragon trainer and the richest woman in Ankh-Morpork, but he also has to deal with some new recruits to the Watch, to wit, a dwarf, a troll and a werewolf. He's also got to find out who stole a mysterious device, a "gonne," and solve some grisly murders that seem random.

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Imp Y Celyn (that's welsh for Bud of the Holly) sings and plays guitar. He forms "The Band with Rocks In." On percussion is Lias Bluestone, a troll who has learned the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. Glod Glodsson is a Dwarf who plays horn and he's in it for the money. Unseen University's Librarian joins on piano but leaves before the band gets famous. C.M.O.T. Dibbler sees a profit in the band, so he becomes Discworld's first band manager. Then there's the troll roadie named, of course, Asphalt. When Death takes a holiday, his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit (the only daughter of Ysaball and Mort from Mort is forced to take over for him. Complications arise when she falls in love with Buddy, as Imp Y Celyn likes to be called.

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The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork gets a letter from the Agatean Empire on the Counterweight Continent saying "send us the Great Wizzard." With a spelling like that, it can only mean Rincewind. The wizards of Unseen University send him on his way by exchanging him with a live cannon. The Luggage follows but it has to walk. Rincewind's destination resembles China in many ways. "May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse. Things certainly get interesting as the capital of the Agatean Empire, Hunghung, is under threat from several sources: Cohen the Barbarian's Silver Horde, the empire's five most powerful feudal lords (Hong, Tang, Fang, Sung, and McSweeney) and the Red Army.

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Anges Nitt of Lancre has a great voice for opera but not the looks. She travels to the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork and gets hired. She ends up singing for Christine, a beauty with no voice or brains. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg travel to Ankh-Morpork both to get some money Nanny Ogg is owed by the publisher of her books and to get Agnes to return home. The Opera House has a ghost or maybe two. Finances are very shaky and people keep turning up dead. Granny and Nanny get involved in finding out what's up with Ankh-Morpork's phantom of the opera.

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This book parodies detective novels and introduces golems from Jewish mythology. Once again someone's trying to get rid of Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork's Patrician. A cabal of guild leaders want to replace him with City Watchman Nobby Nobbs, who they think will be easy to control. The cabal order Meshugah, the newly made golem king, to make poisoned candles which are sent to the Patrician's palace. Meshugah goes crazy and starts killing people. The City Watch, along with their new forensics expert Cheery Littlebottom, are called on to solve the murders and Vetinari's poisoning.

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The Hogfather is Discworld's version of Father Christmas/Santa Claus. The Auditors, previously seen in Reaper Man have decided he doesn't fit their view of the universe. They commission the services of Mr. Teatime, an insane genius well qualified for the job of assassinating the Hogfather. Death takes over for the Hogfather, which causes complications when he takes children's wishes too literally. Death's granddaughter must find out what happened to the Hogfather and for this she enlists the help of Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers and the Tooth Fairy.

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When the island of Leshp rises out of the sea after being under water for centuries, war between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch looms as each lays claim to the new land. When Samuel Vimes finds signs of a conspiracy, the City Watch tries to stop the oncoming conflict. The Patrician drafts Sgt. Fred Colon and Cpl. Nobby Nobbs, getting them to travel to Klatch in the experimental Going-Under-the-Water-Safely Device to do some reconaissance.

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Since the events of Interesting Times Rincewind has been on the continent of XXXX (so called because nobody has a clue about what its real name is), having been sent there thanks to a miscalculation by the Unseen University wizards. He's been stranded there for some years now. The university's Librarian, who was quite happy being an orangutan after a spell went wrong, has contracted a magical malady which causes him to turn into different objects depending on where he is. The senior wizards think Rincewind might be able to help because he'd worked with the Librarian, but first they have to find the continent of XXXX, which bears some similarities, albeit in a Discworldian fashion, to Australia.

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Vampires, horror and Goth culture all get the Discworld treatment in this novel with the title that can be loosely translated as "Go for the throat." Count Magpyr and his vampire family aren't too keen on returning home to Überwald after attending the naming ceremony of Magrat and King Verence's daughter. They use a hypnotic charm to prevent people from realizing they're taking over Lancre. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Agnes Nitt, also known as Perdita, need to battle the vampires.

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Samuel Vimes, who is both Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Duke of Ankh, travels to Überwald on a diplomatic mission. His traveling companions are the troll Detritus,dwarf Watch Corporal Cheery Littlebottom and Inigo Skimmer, who is attending the Assassins Guild on a scholarship. Vimes soon finds himself being chased by werewolves and mixed up in a plot to ignite a holy war, dwarf style. He also finds a large piece of dwarf bread known as the Scone of Stone, an obvious takeoff on the coronation stone of Scottish and now British monarchs, the Stone of Scone.

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Discworld's latest technological marvel is movable type. In Ankh-Morpork, William de Word starts the first newspaper and invents investigative journalism. There's a plot afoot to discredit Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician, by using a double to make it appear he's guilty of embezzlement and attempted murder. deWorde and his reporter Sacharissa Cripslock are on the story.

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The Auditors are back and this time they're concerned about the messy unpredictability caused by the actions of humans. They get a young clockmaker to build a perfect glass clock. They don't tell him this will imprison the personification of Time which will in turn freeze time itself on the Discworld. Death finds out, but he's got an agreement with the Auditors, so he sends his granddaughter Susan to to foil the plot. Two History Monks, a student and his teacher, also become aware of the clock and travel to Ankh-Morpork to prevent it from being built.

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This is a short novel published in a larger format than the others and featuring illustrations by Paul Kidby, who has been working on the Discworld series since 1995. Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde embark on a quest to return fire to the gods with interest in the form of a large sled laden with explosives. Lord Vetinari learns of the quest and opposes it since it would destroy Discworld. He sends Leonard of Quirm, Rincewind and City Watch Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson off on Discworld's second spaceship to stop the Horde. Somehow the Librarian manages to get aboard. Needless to say, things don't go according to anyone's plans.

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This is the first of the Discworld novels to be classified as Young Adult and so far it is the only one not featuring Tiffany Aching who is introduced in the 30th book. This twist on "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" won Terry Pratchett his first major award, the Carnegie Medal in a unanimous decision by the judges. Maurice is a talking cat who leads the Educated Rodents, a group of talking rats. Maurice and the rats travel from town to town along with a boy piper. The con is that the rodents infest the town and Maurice brings in the piper and collects money when the boy pipes the rats away. But there's a lot of dissension in the ranks of the Educated Rodents. Hamnpork, the leader, hates Maurice, while Dangerous Beans, the nearly blind guru, forsees a future of humans and rats living in harmony. They decide to do one last job together in the Überwald town of Bad Blintz, where rat catchers have been passing off shoelaces as rat tails to collect the bounty.

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Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork, gets caught in a time storm. This sends him back to a time before the beginning of the Discworld series where he meets his younger self. He gets arrested for breaking curfew, but before his younger self can interrogate him, History Monk Lu-Tze freezes time and tells him he must assume the identity of his hero and mentor, Sergeant-at-Arms John Keel. Keel had been murdered earlier that day by Carcer Dun, a criminal Vimes was pursuing when he was caught in the storm. Things get even more confusing after the Ankh-Morpork revolution starts.

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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, with the help of the Nac Mac Feegle, learns that her grandmother used to be the witch of the Chalklands, and she has inherited the trade. The Nac Mac Feegle are six-inch-tall faeries, but definitely not the romanticized fae of the Victorian era. They're closer to the tricky Pictsies of older legends. They speak in a form of Scots Glaswegian dialect. Tiffany and her small allies are up against the Queen of the Elves, who has once again decided to invade Discworld. When Tiffany's baby brother is stolen by the Elves, she and the Nac Mac Feegle enter the Elves' world to get him back. This is the second of Pratchett's Discworld books aimed at younger readers, but it has gained popularity among adults as well.

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The title is taken from a 16th century John Knox tract referring to a "mostrous regiment of women." The 19th-century English folk song "Sweet Polly Oliver," about a woman joining the army to find her lover, is the basis for the story. Polly Perks dresses up as a man, stuffs a pair of socks down her pants, calls herself Oliver Perks and joins the army of Borogravia, a very bellicose little country, to find her missing brother. A shortage of troops leads to Polly serving with a vampire, a werewolf, a troll and an Igor. Sam Vimes, now a duke but still thinking like a city watchman, gets involved when Borogravia's latest war interferes with Ankh-Morpork's commerce, and William de Worde, newspaperman, changes things when he popularizes Polly's regiment after they win an unexpected victory.

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It's two years after the events of The Wee Free Men and Tiffany isn't too thrilled with her witchcraft studies, which have led her to believe the work of witches is thankless, dull and pointless. A mysterious creature, a Hiver, enters Tiffany's mind and causes her to act as if she had no conscience. Her fellow witches, worried by her behavior, try to bring her back to herself and her wee boisterous friends the Nac Mac Feegle arrive to help.

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Moist von Lipwig, skilled con artist, is saved from hanging and offered a choice by Patrician Lord Vetinari. He can either walk out a door and fall to his death or take over the Ankh-Morpork post office, which hasn't functioned well in decades. When Lipwig reluctantly takes up his duties he finds the post office's problems include employees more concerned with following regulations than doing their jobs and a ghost reality fueled by the power of words, of which their are plenty stacked up in undeliverd mail in every nook and cranny of the building. Several postmasters were killed by the ghost reality in just the two months Lipwig was waiting to be hanged. His postal reforms lead to introducting postage stamps and finding himself in competition with the Grand Trunk Clacks line, a system of semaphore towers, and its powerful chairman.

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Thud! is the sound that begins this City Watch novel and it's also the name of a game similar to chess that recreates the long-ago battle between trolls and dwarves known as The Battle of Koom Valley. Leaders of each side in the present day are spoiling for a rematch, something Commander Sam Vimes must prevent. In addition, Vimes must deal with the addition of a vampire to the Watch and find out who stole a fifty-foot painting depicting the Koom Valley battle, a painting said to contain secrets concerning what really happened. Through it all, Sam Vimes struggles to get home at six each evening to read Where's My Cow? to his young son.

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Tiffany Aching, now 13, travels to the woods on the last day of Autumn to witness the Black Morris. Caught up in dancing to the music, she collides with the Wintersmith himself. He's fascinated by her and proceeds to produce Tiffany-shaped snowflakes and icebergs. His ardor leads him to bring on a Winter that threatens the shepherds of the Chalk lands. The Mac Nac Feegles join with Granny Weatherwax, Annagramma and Miss Tick, plus a lively cheese named Horace, to save the day.

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Moist von Lipwig, reformer of Ankh-Morpork's post office, is tasked by Patrician Lord Vetinari with taking over the Royal Mint, which the aristocratic families in charge are running into the ground. Von Lipwig transforms not only the mint, but the way the people of Ankh-Morpork think about money. The fantasy city and its people once again hold up a funhouse mirror to society out here in what readers think of as reality.

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The wizards of Unseen University are faced with calamity. A bequest which funds 7/8ths of the university's huge food budget - those wizards can really pack it away - has the requirement that the wizards take part in the violent street game called foot-the-ball. Wizard Ponder Stibbons introduces rules and other innovations such as having referees use a whistle instead of a poisoned dagger and using a ball that, instead of going "clunk" goes "gloing." Sub-plots abound, as usual, with one involving romance in the university's Night Kitchen between two people from rival foot-the-ball clans.

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In the fourth and final novel of the Tiffany Aching series, Tiffany is on her own as "The Hag O' the Hills," a good witch tending to the needs of the people. In spite of her efforts, she finds the people beginning to distrust witches thanks to the evil ghost of an ancient witch-burner. The Nac Mac Feegles are back along with Granny Weatherwax to help out as Tiffany tries to decide what her future should be.

I Shall Wear Midnight won the Andre Norton Award for 2010 at the Nebula Awards weekend in Wahington, DC on May 21, 2011.

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This full-color foldout map will show you where such noted Ankh-Morpork landmarks as Unseen University, the Shades, the Broken (or Mended) Drum, and the Patrician's palace are located, and the course of the Ankh as it glurps its way through the city.





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"I said there would never be a map of the Discworld. This is it." Pratchett didn't start the series with locations all mapped out. Instead, he let the series develop for ten years before the map was developed. Along with the map, which unfolds to poster size, you get a small book with biographies of some of the Discworld's explorer.



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The small kingdom of Lancre lies between Überwald, Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Widdershins Ocean. It's the home of Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and her extensive family and Magrat Garlick.





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This map shows the house and dark gardens created by Death, who speaks in ALL CAPITALS and rides a horse named Binky. Included are the insane golf course and text that explains why Death doesn't understand rockeries and the fate of garden gnomes.





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This is really two books in one. Chapters featuring the wizards of Unseen University alternate with entertaining real science writing. The wizards, it seems, were doing an experiment in the university's squash court and started a chain reaction (I don't know about you, but fermi this sounded familiar) which releases an unprecedented amount of thaumic energy. The result is a min-universe containing a spherical world. The explanation for this Roundworld makes up the science part of the book.

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Amazon reviewer Stephen A. Haines writes, "Try enlivening a party with this question: 'What's on your mind?' When the babble has become truly raucous, ask another: 'How did it get in there?' This book is about those questions...." It continues the parallel fantasy/science order from the first book, only this time the focus is narrowed to humanity, its development and how we think about the world around us.

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Things have gone very wrong on Roundworld. In Victorian England, the pace of progress is glacial and Charles Darwin has written Theology of Species, not exactly the book he was supposed to write. The wizards intervened before and may have to again. In this third book, the narrative concerning the wizards is more integrated with the science writing.



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Nanny Ogg's recipes are by Tina Hannan and Stephen Briggs and there's much more: "items of Antiquarian Lore, Improving Observations of Life, Good Advice for Young People on the Threshold of the Adventure That is Marriage, Notes on Etiquette & Many Other Helpful Observations that will Not Offend the Most Delicate Sensibilities" according to the description in the bibliography maintained by Pratchett's agent, Colin Smythe. Illustrations are by Paul Kidby.

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This is the encyclopedia of Discworld. All the things, place and people are listed and presented in a more ordered way than might be possible in a narrative, even one with the ample footnotes found in the Discworld novels. It's not a dry work, either. Terry Pratchett's humour is on display as always, along with wonderful illustrations by Stephen Briggs. If you've been touring through Discworld, or you're about to start, you need this guide.

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In Thud!, Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch has to make time in his busy investigations to get home each night at six o'clock to read Where's My Cow? to his son. According to Amazon, "This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. But it all ends happily!"

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After discovering Terry Pratchett's Discworld in 1993, Paul Kidby has devoted his professional life to it, producing book covers after Josh Kirby's death, plus artwork for The Terry Pratchett Portfolio, The Last Hero, maps, cards, T shirts and mugs. The 112-page book is in a large format showing the people and places much loved by Discworld fans.


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Myths, legends and fairy tales have been with us for ages, although these days they are beginning to be neglected. It's often very easy to recognize the folklore of our part of the multiverse as its presented in Discworld terms, but only if you're familiar with them in the first place. In this book, Pratchett teams up with noted British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to look at our folklore in an illuminating and irreverent fashion.

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This is a collection of many, though certainly not all, of the witty and insightful comments, sayings, jokes and musings from the novels, arranged as one chapter per novel. This would not be a good place for a beginning Discworld reader to start. It would be best to probably have read a majority of the books before reading this in order to have a better developed sense of the Discworld and its people.


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