Book description
'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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Sorceress Kringle
Everything you know about Santa Claus is a lie. And that’s just the way she likes it.
She remembers nothing of her real parents. She was abducted by fairies who taught her all she knows. Everyone calls her Key, but no one can tell her why.
Now, in the year…
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