Hogfather

#20 Discworld

Terry Pratchett

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Corgi
01 August 2013

Fantasy; Humorous Fantasy; Mythological Creatures, People & Places

Series: Discworld Novels

The twentieth Discworld novel

A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the fourth book in the Death series, part of the Discworld novels.

'Our best comic novelist' New Scientist

'A great Christmas tale that's as silly as it is deep in the way few authors cam achieve' 5-star reader review

'Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.'

'Twas the night before Hogswatch and all through the house . . . something was missing.

Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have consequences.

When Death realizes that belief in the Hogfather is dangerously low, he decides to take on the job. But it's just not right to find a seven-foot skeleton creeping down your chimney and trying to say 'ho, ho, ho'.

It's the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, gothic governess and Death's granddaughter, doesn't sort everything out by morning, there won't be a morning. Ever again . . .

Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

Praise for the Discworld series-

' Pratchett's

spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday

'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian

'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin

'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express

'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch

'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction

'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times

'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph

'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune

'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX

' Discworld is

compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...

There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard

By: Terry Pratchett
Imprint: Corgi
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 20
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9780552167581
ISBN 10: 0552167584
Series: Discworld Novels
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 01 August 2013
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 75 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages. www.terrypratchett.co.uk

Reviews for Hogfather (#20 Discworld)

'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland...It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things' * The Sunday Times * 'Our best comic novelist' * New Scientist * I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett' * A.S. Byatt *