TERRY PRATCHETT

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The Discworld Novels
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WITCHES SERIES

Equal Rites

Predicting his own death, the wizard Drum Billet sets out to pass on his power and his staff to his (also-predicted) successor, the eighth son of the eighth son. But there is a slight problem: the eighth son turns out to be a daughter, and women aren't supposed to be wizards. ("Where does it say women can't be wizards?" "It doesn't say it anywhere, it says it everywhere") But it's too late: Eskarina inherits the wizard's staff and with the reluctant help of Granny Weatherwax sets out to learn her new calling.

Wyrd Sisters
	Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly -regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...

Witches Abroad
	It seemed an easy job ...After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple... Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least - up until now...

Witches Trilogy
	The first three Witches Books in one edition. EQUAL RITES WYRD SISTERS WITCHES ABROAD HARDBACK

Lords and Ladies

The fairies are back--but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey- nonny-nonny and blood all over the place. And as if that wasn't enough, Magrat Garlick is going to become queen of Lancre - strange but true.

Maskerade

The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night... The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress... At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing. So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)

Carpe Jugulum
	Mighty Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure whether there is a right side. "Carpe Jugulum" is the 23rd Discworld novel.

GUARDS SERIES

Guards! Guards!
	This is where the dragons went. They lie...not dead, not asleep, but...dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...

Men At Arms

Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detrius (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...

Feet of Clay

There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in Ankh-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who's begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start... There's treason in the air. A crime has happened. He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions are he's going to want some answers.

Jingo
	Ankh-Morpork goes to war with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. As two armies march Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse.

The Fifth Elephant

Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves--and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck, and already out of breath...

DEATH SERIES

Mort
	Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice.

Reaper Man
	Death is missing - Presumed ... er ... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...

Soul Music

Some children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes: there's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe-- especially when you have to take over the family business and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's called Music With Rocks In. It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but... It's alive. And it won't fade away.

Hogfather

It's the night before Hogswatch and it's too quiet. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again. The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too). As they say: You'd better watch out...

OTHER DISCWORLD NOVELS

Moving Pictures

The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never heard of") to find out... Moving Pictures, the ninth Discworld novel, is a gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad.

Pyramids
	Being trained by the Assasin's 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 rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems...

Small Gods
	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was "Hey, you!". For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One, and all he wants is peace, justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please.

Eric

Eric is Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel known as the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time - that he'd never been born.

ALSO FROM TERRY PRATCHETT

Good Omens

By Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
There's a  bit of a mix up when the Antichrist is born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them.

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