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The Gods Trilogy The Truth Guards! Guards! Discworld Calendar 2001 City Watch Trilogy

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First British Edition Gollancz (2000)

The Gods Trilogy
The Discworld is, as everyone knows, and no one should now need to be told, flat. It rides through space on the back of four elephants* which, in turn, are standing on the shell of an enormous turtle.
But just because it is being borne through space on the back of a turtle, doesn't mean it doesn't need gods ...
The Gods Trilogy is a bumper volume containing the complete text of three of Terry Pratchett's celebrated novels:
Pyramids
It isn't easy, being a teenage pharaoh: you're not allowed to carry money; uninhibited young women peel grapes for you and the Great Pyramid has just exploded because of paracosmic instability ...
Small Gods
Brutha is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the shape of a tortoise; Brutha now has a mission.
Hogfather
It's the night before Hogswatch ... and it's too quiet.
There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys ...
He's gone.
*There used to be five, but that's another story entirely.
'You are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity' Financial Times
'A sequence of unalloyed delight' Guardian
'If he is not a Booker author, that is all the worse for Booker... his books fizz with ideas' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph

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Paperback - Corgi (2001)

The Truth
The 25th Discworld Novel
William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it’s only the third edition...
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.
`The Truth is an unmitigated delight and very, very funny.The pace is compelling but he never lets his tale descend into simple farce’ Peter Ingham, The Times
`Fluent, intricately plotted and sometimes very funny’ James Delingpole, Daily Telegraph
`He would be amusing in any form, and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction’ Mail on Sunday
`Pratchett fans are in for a treat with his 25th Discworld novel’ Maggie Pringle, Daily Express

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British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2000)

Guards! Guards!
Illustrated by Graham Higgins - Adapted by Stephen Briggs
Of all the cities in the world* it could have flown into, it flew into mine…
A seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon is wanted to help with enquiries into the identity of the night-time prowler who is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits, and the only thing that can prevent the inevitable destruction of the city are the drunken and world weary Captain Vimes and his forgotten police force - an overweight and cowardly sergeant, a corporal who just about qualifies as human, and the Discworld’s tallest dwarf.
Guards! Guards! has been astutely reduced from Terry Pratchett’s best-selling novel so it will fit into those nice little speech bubbles by Stephen Briggs and illustrated by Graham Higgins to make the pages look more interesting.
*The world, of course, being the Discworld, which, as everybody knows, is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle.

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British Pbk Original - Gollancz Millenium (2000)

Discworld Calendar 2001
Discworld Collector's Edition
Illustrated by Josh Kirby, Paul Kidby, Graham Higgins, Colin MacNeil and Jay Hurst
Terry Pratchett lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but they took over the greenhouse and he had to build them a new conservatory to placate them. He's decided not to worry about getting a life after all.
Josh Kirby is renowned for his work in fantasy, science fiction and horror art; his name has become synonymous with the Discworld since 1983 when his cover for The Colour of Magic first appeared. Collections include In the Garden of Unearthly Delights, The Josh Kirby Discworld Portfolio and A Cosmic Cornucopia, amongst others.
Paul Kidby, born in 1964 in Middlesex, cannot remember when drawing sis not play a large part in his life. The Pratchett Portfolio was published by Victor Gollancz in 1996 and since that time he has worked exclusively on Discworld projects, including The Discworld Diaries and the forthcoming illustrated novella The Last Hero. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children.
Drawing has taken Graham Higgins from underground comix to advertising, editorial illustration and teaching, from Murmansk to Gambia. He is co-founder of the Dogstar graphics partnership, and divides his time between Birmingham and Berlin. He illustrated Mort, the first Discworld graphic novel, and is currently working on Guards! Guards!
Colin MacNeil, who has a BA (Hons) in Illustration and Print Making, has won many prestigious awards for his outstanding work. As well as book jackets for publishers as diverse as Oxford University Press and Marvel Comics, he has worked extensively in graphic art, co-creating two Judge Dredd comics and drawing for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Manga Entertainment, amongst others.
Born in a cold Lancashire house in October 1971, Jay Hurst developed an early interest in writing and illustration, with his first illustrated story around the age of three. Equally adept in a wide range of media, he has produced images in diverse fields, from pure landscape painting and portraiture to science fiction and fantasy covers. He lives with his wife and three children.

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First British Edition Gollancz (1999)

City Watch Trilogy
Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (Or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or werewolves ...)
The City Watch is a bumper volume containing three of Terry Pratchett's celebrated novels in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history.
GUARDS! GUARDS!
Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries.
MEN AT ARMS
There's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. And it'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married.
FEET OF CLAY
Someone is murdering harmless old men and poisoning the Patrician. As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen, and the golems, who may know something, have started committing suicide. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the street and plotters in the dark and all the clues are pointing the wrong way!
*Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as everyone knows.
'Has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland ... an intelligent wit and a truly grim and comic grasp of the nature of things ... I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett' A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize-winning author
'If he is not a Booker author, that is all the worse for Booker ... his books fizz with ideas' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph
'One of the best and funniest English authors alive' The Independent

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