Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the fourth book in the Death series, part of the Discworld novels.
'Our best comic novelist' New Scientist
тАШA great Christmas tale that's as silly as it is deep in the way few authors cam achieveтАЩ 5-star reader review
'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 . . .
Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[PratchettтАЩs] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
тАШPratchett is a master storytellerтАЩ Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyoneтАЩ Daily Express
тАШOne of the most consistently funny writers aroundтАЩ Ben Aaronovitch
тАШMasterful and brilliantтАЩ Fantasy & Science Fiction
тАШPratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
тАШThe best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
тАШNothing short of magicalтАЩ Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
тАШ[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like itтАЩ Evening Standard
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