Witches are odd. That much is clear to Tiffany. But she likes them... in an odd sort of way. Just as she likes Roland... in a friend sort of way (which most certainly isn't odd). But Tiffany hasn't really got time to think about Roland, because she has... Zobraziť viac
Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have consequences. When Death realizes that belief in the Hogfather is dangerously low, he decides to take on the job. But it's just not right to find a seven-foot skeleton creeping... Zobraziť viac
Transworld Publishers Ltd: The Guardian, September 29, 2007 ...the finest satirical series running. If you've never read... Zobraziť viac
Corgi: They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. The... Zobraziť viac
Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, ... Zobraziť viac
Corgi: 'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and... Zobraziť viac
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 of a giant turtle, that is... Zobraziť viac
So when a request for a ;Great Wizzard; arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's the endlessly unlucky Rincewind who's sent as emissary... Zobraziť viac
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse... Zobraziť viac
Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing . . . a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He's got the scythe already, after all... Zobraziť viac
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there... Zobraziť viac
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing... Zobraziť viac
Corgi: Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or... Zobraziť viac
A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: moving pictures. Created by the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork, the growing 'clicks' industry moves to the sandy land of Holy Wood... Zobraziť viac
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 of a giant turtle, that is... Zobraziť viac
On the Discworld’s last continent, it’s hot. It’s dry. . . very dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one... Zobraziť viac
[Terry Pratchett] makes us laugh a lot.' The Sunday Times As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone - or something - is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmu Zobraziť viac
In the city of Ankh-Morpork, tension is rising between dwarf and troll communities. A dwarven fanatic has been stoking the flames of an old hatred born of the Battle of Koom Valley -an ancient war between the races that neither side has quite got over... Zobraziť viac