The thirty-third Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library.
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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'His world, increasingly subtle and thoughtful, has become as
allegorical and satirical as a painting by Bosch ... Pratchett's
joy in his creations, in jokes, puns, the idea of letters and
language itself makes GOING POSTAL one of the best expressions of
his unstoppable flow of comic invention.'
*The Times*
'Like many of Pratchett's best comic novels, it is a book about
redemption ... There's a moral toughness here, which is one of the
reasons why Pratchett is never merely frivolous.'
*Time Out*
'With all the puns, strange names and quick-fire jokes about
captive letters demanding to be delivered, it's easy to miss how
cross about injustice Terry Pratchett can be. This darkness and
concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English
Absurd school of comic fantasy.'
*Guardian*
'Terry Pratchett is one of the great makers of what Auden called
'secondary worlds'. His inventiveness - with people with plots,
with things - is seemingly inexhaustible ... Pratchett can make you
giggle helplessly and then grin grimly at the sharpness of his wit.
Twelve-year old boys love him, but he himself is grown up. He knows
that terrible things exist and happen, and he invents a benign
otherworld in which we can face them, and laugh.'
*A.S. Byatt, DAILY MAIL*
'Pratchett ... is the missing link between Douglas Adams and J.K.
Rowling. To non-initiates his work is gobbledygook, but dig deeper
and you find the wit and imaginationthat have gained him a
fanatical readership - among them is A.S. Byatt.'
*FT MAGAZINE*
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