There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amass...more
Carpe Jugulum is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onwards. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Non-fans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that's something difficult to put into a few words...more
The oldest empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise "What I Did on My Holidays." Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, and warlords are struggling for power.
Sam Vimes is cast back to the Ankh-Morpok of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time pursuing him, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so he has the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive in the process. A stage adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels have sol...more
Being trained by the Assassins' Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi earlier than expected, but that was only the beginning of his problems.
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured and discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time from 1996 to 1941 England.
In the second title in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, the 12-year-old hero finds himself tangled up in the fortunes of the town’s dead. With a real estate deal threatened to flatten their cemetery, the dead are desperate for help, and Johnny’s the unfortunate boy they turn to.