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Terry Pratchett
Keynote
The first Discworld novel - and now the tie-in edition to the Sky miniseries.
Description
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.
Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the
Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very
much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by
different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion
that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.
But just because the Disc is different doesn’t mean that some things
don’t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a
strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose
survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person
charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers,
mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little
logic might turn out to be a very good idea...
The Colour of Magic
is the first novel in Terry Pratchett’s acclaimed Discworld series,
which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in
English literature.
Sales Points
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Total Pratchett sales are in excess of 24 million copies. |
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The Mob Film Company and Sky One, who triumphantly brought Hogfather to the screen in 2007, have teamed up again for The Colour of Magic,
a miniseries based on Terry Pratchett's first two novels to star Sean
Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee and David Jason and directed by Vadim
Jean showing on Sky in March 2008. |
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Sunday Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett has more books in the BBC Big Reads Top 100 than any other living author. |
Reviews
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'One of the best and funniest English authors alive' - Independent |
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'Like
Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting
mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous
talent...incredibly funny...compulsively readable.' - The Times |
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'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 |
Author Biography
Terry
Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives
behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life,
because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was
appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful
Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is
scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first
Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED
RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.
Market
Pratchett/Discworld fans.
Biblio Back Cover Text - The Colour Of Magic
THE FUNNIEST AND MOST UNORTHODOX FANTASY IN THIS OR ANY OTHER GALAXY
The Colour of Magic
On
a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a
gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an
avaricious but inept wizard, a naïve tourist whose luggage moves on
hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in
them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet…
The Light Fantastic
As
it moves towards a seeemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent
red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately,
this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called
Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...
‘One of the best, and one of the funniest English authors alive’
Independent
‘He is a satirist of enormous talent..Incredibly funny, compulsively readable’
The Times
‘He
would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes
the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction’
Daily Mail
| Publication date |
Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| Price |
£7.99 |
| ISBN-13 |
9780552157278 |
| BIC Subject |
Fantasy (FGK)
Modern Fiction (FBC)
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| Binding |
Paperback |
| Format |
B Format (TW) |
| Depth |
0mm |
| Extent |
576 pages |
| Territorial Rights |
UK C/Wealth ex Can |
| In-House Editor |
Bill Scott-Kerr |
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| Drama |
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| Film Option |
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| US |
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Transworld Publishers.
A Random House Group Company
www.rbooks.co.uk
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