Going Postal (Discworld Novel) [Hardcover]

" You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realizing that you are in the presence of a true original among contemporary writers."
- "Times"

"From the Paperback edition."

'This darkness and concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English Absurd school of comic fantasy.'

'Pratchett...is the missing link between Douglas Adams and J.K. Rowling...Wit and imagination have gained him a fanatical readership.'

'Terry Pratchett is one of the great makers of what Auden called 'secondary worlds'. His inventiveness...is seemingly inexhaustible.'

The 29th Discworld novel, re-released to tie-in to the fantastic Sky 1 miniseries --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision.

But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there' s a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...

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.