Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010.
A writer who had more titles on the BBC’s Big Read Top 100 than any other living author, only Charles Dickens matched him. At the start Pratchett was categorised comic fantasy for he sets his Discworld books in an alternative universe and peoples them with witches, wizards and the like. It is a stage upon which he places his players in situations that enables him to mirror our world and therefore pinpoint its faults, idiosyncratic traits, ludicrous bureaucracy or just plain prejudices, injustices, stupidity and the like, i.e.
he has developed into one of the most important satirists writing today. This astute masterpiece tears into the postal service. Truth did the same for the newspaper industry. Monstrous Regiment is one of the best books on war and gender you are likely to come across. He is a man who needs reading. His next Discworld, Thud, comes into hardback at the same time.
Comparison: Jasper Fforde, Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin.
Similar this month: None but try Haruki Murakami or Stephen Donaldson.
A special hardback gift edition of classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times'If you only read one Terry Pratchett book, read this one. You WILL be hooked' 5-star reader review
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A special hardback gift edition of classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times'If you only read one Terry Pratchett book, read this one. You WILL be hooked' 5-star reader review'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.'Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city's Postmaster General.It's a tough decision, but he's already survived one hanging and isn't in the mood to try it again.The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order.
Going Postal features in the following genres: Fantasy, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback, Hardback, Ebook, Paperback (a Format). £15.29, down from the £16.99 cover price. In Stock.
Going Postal was written by Terry Pratchett and published by Doubleday an imprint of Transworld
Going Postal has 490 pages
Yes it is part of The Discworld Series series
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. In Stock.
