The Colour Of Magic (Discworld Novel 1) by Terry Pratchett

The Colour Of Magic (Discworld Novel 1) by Terry Pratchett'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS 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 . . . In the beginning there was a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the

author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King 'Rapturous

In the past few years

a trio of women compete to win the heart of the slick guest of honour

The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time

Plato sets out a plan for the day-to-day rule of Magnesia

'A tale worth re-telling

resolute writings that resist despair at all times

instead collectively presenting a distinctive

sharply observed

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

deeply reported and impeccably even-handed

And how do we survive when we lose it