Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was a long time ago, but if Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, he's going to...
Discworld (Imaginary place)
- Author:PRATCHETT, TerrySummary:
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
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 slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the...
- Author:PRATCHETT, TerrySummary:
It's hot. It's dry...very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? It's discworld's...
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Sam Vimes is 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.
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
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 ... Collected together for the first time are...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
A satirical comedy on the subject of death. It begins when Death decides to take a holiday and turns over the shop to his granddaughter, Susan, with the assistance of Death of Rats, a rat skeleton. Unfortunately, Susan does not have the...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
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. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck ... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess, her family's inn, even though the revered national deity, Nuggan, has decreed that female ownership of a business is an...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.' Fate is a...
- Author:PRATCHETT, TerrySummary:
A new Discworld novel. A small, uninhabitable island rises from the sea, and Solid Jackson thinks he's discovered it first. But so too do the Klatchain fishermen Akhan and Arif. There's only one answer - war!!
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his crimes were hanging offenses until he found himself with a noose around his neck, dropping through a trap door, and falling into ... a government job? Getting the moribund Postal Service...
- Author:Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Tiffany Aching, the boldest heroine ever to swing a frying pan against the forces of evil, is beginning her apprenticeship in magic. She expects to work hard, learn spells, and become a witch. She doesn't expect to find herself...