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'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday Times
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back…
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I must confess to being a late convert to Terry Pratchett’s hilarious Discworld.
As a younger man, I was disparaging of comic treatments of the fantasy genre. In short, I took myself too seriously! Since I got over myself, I have been romping through the Discworld canon, and particularly enjoy the books featuring Death as a character. This may sound morbid but he is one of the great fictional creations of the past fifty years.
Hogfather is a perfect Christmas read (although I read it in the unexpected heat of a Scottish highland September), the twists keep coming as Death…
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