Now published in the Discworld Collectors Library hardback, the penultimate adult Discworld novel from the master, Terry Pratchett, sees Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder.
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. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.
[Discworld is] Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically
inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just
about any aspect of our world... Where other writers are delighted
if they come up with just a handful of comic figures with
self-sustaining life in them - Don Quixote and Sancho, the three
men in the boat, Pooh and Piglet and Eeyore - Pratchettt breeds
them by the score...There's never been anything quite like it
*Evening Standard*
Pratchett is a master storyteller. He is endlessly inventive... a
master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a
kind of insidious wisdom about human nature... I read his books at
a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted
*Guardian*
To keep it fresh into the 39th volume of a series deserves a
knighthood... Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on
display. He still makes you care about his creations and, amid all
the funnies, he can turn on the pathos
*Sunday Express*
[Pratchett] is now so good at skewering the banalities and
injustices of our world through his fantasy creation balanced on
the back of a giant turtle that he could probably do it in his
sleep... As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can
be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life
either. A worthy addition to the Discworld canon
*Sunday Times*
Is there any sign of a falling-off in Sir Terry's extraordinary
abilities? No. Not one. This is another brilliant, bravura command
performance of comic fantasy. Terry Pratchett with Alzheimer's is
still up there with PG Wodehouse. Amazing. Wonderful. Fantastic
*Daily Mail*
The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of
comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies... Pratchett has
been rightly praised for comic invention and whimsy; he does not
always get enough credit for the psychological comedy of
embarrassment which makes us blush with self-recognition... at once
hilariously cynical and idealistically practical
*Independent*
Terry Pratchett's Discworld remains a joy... [Snuff is] seriously
funny... A highly readable, mature comedy, far from the rapid-fire
quipping of early Discworld
*Independent*
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