Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett

Equal Rites, Terry PratchettNew Paperback The Discworld is very much like our own if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but its not half so bad as a lot of ignorance. The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son.

previously unpublished

and Klarissa Velasco

When trying to slim down

and the menacing rise of fascism abroad

As the nights draw in and the cold descends

shining with detailed insight and attentive understanding

this volume covers the rise of the European dictatorships on the one hand

AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE

and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia

Sam Vimes is also a man on the run

Their defeat doomed a way of life

attraction and repulsion