Terry Pratchett
41) The long earth
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English
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2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to the burned-out home of one Willis Linsay where she finds an invention that would change the way mankind viewed his world forever.
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Doubleday Children's
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different? Turkey and carols, presents and crackers - they all start to feel a bit samey. How about a huge exploding mince pie, a pet abominable snowman, or a very helpful partridge in a pear tree? What if Father Christmas went to work at a zoo, or caused chaos in a toy store, or was even arrested for burglary? Dive into the fantastically funny world of Terry Pratchett, for a festive treat like no other.
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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For safety's sake, you need a guide to lead you through the highways and byways of the extraordinary world that is Discworld. How else will you find out where to get the best curry in Ankh-Morpork or if rumours about XXXCX, the lost continent, are true?
44) The long utopia
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2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a normal life in New Springfield - they even adopt a child - but it seems they have been guided there for a...
45) Moving pictures
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A Discworld novel volume 10
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Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Cameras roll on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? As the alien cliches of Tinsel Town pour in, it's up to Discworld's first film stars to find out.
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'A Slip of the Keyboard' brings together the finest examples of Pratchett's non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from musings on mushrooms to what it means to be a writer (and why banana daiquiris are so important); from memories of Granny Pratchett to speculation about Gandalf's love life, and passionate defences of the causes dear to him. With all the humour and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection...
47) The Long Mars
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany...
48) Judgement day
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The science of Discworld volume IV
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Ebury Press
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English
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Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against...
49) The long cosmos
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2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth receives a signal from the stars. A signal that...
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English
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An exclusive collection of 20 early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors - these are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst none of the stories are set in the Discworld, they hint towards the world he would go on to create in his award-winning and globally bestselling series, containing all of his trademark wit, satirical wisdom and fantastic imagination. These...
54) Pyramids
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The Discworld volume 7
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Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is Discworld's most incompetent wizard! Terry Pratchett's take on the Faust legend stars many of Discworld's most popular characters in an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more - this time, quite fervently - that he'd never been born.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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This is the city, Ankh-Morpok, celebrated in Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series as you've never seen it before. A stunning map and comprehensive street directory covering each and every district from Unseen University to the Shades, major landmarks like the Patrician's Palace to little-known nooks like Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley.
59) Diggers
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The nomes volume 2
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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A bright new dawn is in prospect for the tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. But soon, strange things are happening - not only that, but the humans reappear and decide to re-open the quarry. This is the tale of a race of little people struggling to survive in a human world.
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The Discworld volume 2
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.