It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first cor...
A brand-new street directory of Discworld city Ankh-Morpork complete with a beautifully illustrated pull-out map. "'There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.'" Ankh-Morpork City of One Thousand Surprises (according to the famous publication by the Guild of Merchants) All human life is here Although, if it walks down the wrong alley, often quite briefly This is the city celebrated in Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series as you've never seen it before....
A brand-new street directory of Discworld city Ankh-Morpork complete with a beautifully illustrated pull-out map. "'There's a saying that all road...
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you'. Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed treasury - is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is a recently acquired qualification from the Guild of Assassins where running a kingdom and basic financial acumen were not prerequisites for course entry...
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you'. Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become...
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. H...
The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork, a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it' s soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear. Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work -- as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank...
The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. To the consternation of the patrician, Lord ...
The fantastic first book in the The Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series, fully revised and updated. When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Through this original Terry...
The fantastic first book in the The Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series, fully revised and updated. When a wizardly experi...
The sequel to the bestselling Science of Discworld. 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...
The sequel to the bestselling Science of Discworld. The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizard...
The latest instalment in the"Sunday Times"-bestselling Science of Discworld series. 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 who 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...
The latest instalment in the"Sunday Times"-bestselling Science of Discworld series. Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. ...
Published as 'Discworld' celebrates its 25th anniversary, these are the first two volumes of the popular series in graphic novel form. Here are the bizarre misadventures of Twoflower, the Discworld's first (and possibly last) ever tourist, and his guide Rincewind, the spectacularly inept wizard.
Published as 'Discworld' celebrates its 25th anniversary, these are the first two volumes of the popular series in graphic novel form. Here are the bi...