Death's apprentice Mort thwarts Death's attempt to finish off the rather attractive Princess Keli. He kills the assassin and undermines Death so much so that he starts drinking, gambling and having fun.

A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper. An important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassador - to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Today, Sam Vimes is also a man on the run. He has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya. It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. There are...

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.

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now, he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, and more people who want him dead in a different way. William just wants to get at the truth.

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.

The Hogswatchnight yuletide season is disrupted by the evil deeds of the Auditors, who replace the red-suited Hogfather with a scythe-bearing demon, prompting the Unseen University wizards and their monster-bashing nanny to launch a rescue plan.

Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation, is a hot, dry place where everything is poisonous. All that stands betwen this place and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, an inept wizard who is the only hero left.

It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpok's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life, but, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

The Opera House is a huge, rambling building full of masked figures and hooded shadows, and in the wings are the Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, who fancy a night at the opera. But there's trouble ahead.

Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. Anyway, it was far away and a long time ago. But if Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the case of a murdered dwarf, he could see the whole battle again, fought right outside his office.