‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . he is a satirist of enormous talent’ The 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

‘His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction’ Mail on Sunday 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 stan

‘Look after the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the dead will look after you.’ Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasu