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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 26/12/2008
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ISBN: 9781407034669
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Length: 384 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.'
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.
He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 26/12/2008
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ISBN: 9781407034669
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Length: 384 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'"
Guardian
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"'As funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'"
Independent
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"'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatologically-minded and J.R.R. Tolkien on speed'"
Daily Telegraph
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"'The best kind of parody - funny and smart and still a good story'"
Mail on Sunday
