The Discworld's first train comes steaming into town and causes Moist von Lipwig all sorts of problems in this, the final, glorious adult novel in Terry Pratchett's legendary, multi-million-selling sequence.
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling
Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was
published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty
bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies
worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and
screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to
literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his
greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
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Laugh-out-loud funny...A chuffing wonderful book.
*SFX*
Terry Pratchett’s creation is still going strong after 30 years as
Ankh-Morpork branches into the railway age…There are sly nods to
the history of railways and a cheeky reference to The Railway
Children. Most aficionados, however, will be on the look-out for
in-jokes and references from previous novels – of which there is no
shortage…It is at the level of the sentence that Pratchett wins his
fans.
*The Times*
The genius of Pratchett is that he never goes for the straight
allegory. . .he remains one of the most consistently funny writers
around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun and the
deflationary three-part list. . .I could tell which of my fellow
tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts
of spontaneous laughter.
*The Guardian*
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