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The Ricewind Trilogy: A Discworld Omnibus

Thief of Time

The Last Hero

Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Discworld Fool's Guild Diary and Yearbook

First British Edition Gollancz (2001)

The Ricewind Trilogy: A Discworld Omnibus
Rincewind is a wizard. At least, he is generally referred to as a wizard.
He is tall, thin and scrawny, with a raggedy beard that looks like the kind of beard that looks like the kind of beard worn by people who aren’t cut out by Nature to be beard-wearers.
`To call his understanding of magical theory “abysmal” is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice,’ said one of his tutors at the Unseen University.
He does have an innate gift for languages and can shout `Don’t kill me!’ and be understood in a hundred different countries. He is also good at practical geography, which means he always knows exactly where it is he is running away from.
The Rincewind Trilogy is a bumper volume containing the complete text of:
Sourcery
A sourceror is born - a wizard so powerful that by comparison, all other magic is just mucking about in pointy hats. And his very existence brings the Discworld to the brink of all-out thaumaturgical war.* All that stands in the way is Rincewind . . .
Eric
Eric is the Discworld’s only demonology hacker. Pity he’s not very good at it. Instead of calling up a nice tractable demon, he gets Rincewind and the extremely intractable Luggage . . .
Interesting Times
Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is Rincewind . . .
* A bad thing.

Paperback - Corgi (2002)

First British Edition Doubleday (2001)

Thief of Time
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.
And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there’s never enough time.
But the construction of the world’s first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone’s problems. Thief Of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).
`In a better world he would be acclaimed as a great writer rather than a merely successful one ... This is the best Pratchett I’ve read...ought to be a strong contender for the Booker Prize’ Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph
`Reads with all the polished fluency and sure-footed pacing that have become Pratchett’s hallmarks over the years’ Peter Ingham, Times On Saturday
`Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He is not derivative. He is too strong ...he has the real energy of the primary storyteller’ A.S. Byatt, The Times

Paperback - Gollancz (2007)

Paperback
Gollancz (2004)

The Last Hero
A Discworld Fable Illustrated by Paul Kidby
Now available in paperback with 16 pages of all-new illustrations

'The Last Hero is a 40,000 word, true Discworld novel that fits in with the other twenty-six books in the sequence. It's just that it has an extra dimension: some parts of it are written in paint!' Terry Pratchett

He’s been a legend in his own lifetime
He can remember the great days of high adventure
He can remember when a hero didn’t have worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation.
He can remember when people didn’t tell you off for killing dragons.
But he can’t always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . .
He’s really not happy about that bit.
So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends - and they’re very old friends - Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He’s going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn’t like the way they let men grow old and die.
The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That’ll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time . . .
`An awesome, yet comic, mission to save all Discworld’ Daily Telegraph
`A fable? Perhaps. Fabulous? Certainly’ The Times
`Those who get to know Terry Pratchett’s world soon understand why the likes of A. S. Byatt are fans. His characters are as eccentric yet richly human as any of Dickens’s . . . but he’s immensely funnier’ Waterstones Books Quarterly
`A hilarious return to the fantasy-satirising spirit of the earlier Discworld novels’ Dreamwatch

British Pbk Original - Corgi (2001)

Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
A useful and improving Almanack of Information including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

`They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach which just goes to show they’re as confused about anatomy as they gen’rally are about everything else, unless they’re talking about instructions on how to stab him, to which case a better way is up and under the ribcage. Anyway, we do not live in a perfect world and it is foresighted and useful for a young woman to become proficient in those arts which will keep a weak-walled man from straying. Learning to cook is also useful

Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld’s most famous witches, is passing on some of her huge collection of tasty and above all interesting recipes, since everyone else is doing it. But in addition to the delights of the Strawberry Wobbler and Nobby’s Mum’s Distressed Pudding, Mrs Ogg impart, thoughts on life, death, etiquette (`If you go to other people’s funerals they’ll be sure to come to yours’), courtship, children and weddings, all in a refined style that should not offend the most delicate of sensibilities. Well, not much.
Most of the recipes have been tried out on people who are still alive.
Nanny Ogg Gratefully Acknowledges the Assistance in this Literary Argosy of Mr Terry Pratchett, Mr Stephen Briggs, Mlle Tina Hannan and Master Paul Kidby.

First British Edition Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Discworld Fool's Guild Diary and Yearbook
With Stephen Briggs
Illustrated by Mr. Paul Kidby