• ISBN13: 9780552166591
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: June 21, 2012
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: GBP 10.99
• Language: N/A
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• Item Weight: 202 grams

<span>In the beginning there was ...a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.</span>

<h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>One of the best and funniest English authors alive ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Independent</span><span><br><br>Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readable ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Times</span><span><br><br>He would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Mail on Sunday</span> </div> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <p><span class="a-text-bold">Terry Pratchett</span><span> was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Colour of Magic, </span><span>was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any</span><span class="a-text-italic">.</span><span><br><br> www.terrypratchettbooks.com</span></p> </div>