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Thief Of Time

  • Imprint: Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552148405

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 26mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 229g

  • RRP: £6.99

Thief Of Time

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.

And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.

But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.

THIEF OF TIME comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).

  • Imprint: Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552148405

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 26mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 229g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • "'Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He is not derivative. He is too strong...He has the real energy of the primary storyteller'"

    A. S. Byatt, The Times

  • "'In a better world he would be acclaimed as a great writer rather than a merely successful one...This is the best Pratchett I've read...Ought to be a strong contender for The Booker Prize'"

    Charles Spencer, Sunday Telegraph

  • "'Reads with all the polished fluency and sure-footed pacing that have become Pratchett's hallmarks over the years'"

    Peter Ingham, The Times On Saturday

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About the Author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

Terry Pratchett

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