Hogfather

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‘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 . . .

‘Has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland‘ Sunday Times

Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. ‘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. ByattTerry 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 which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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