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The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007 (Gollancz S.F.) (Hardcover)

by Terry Pratchett (Author), Stephen Briggs (Author), Paul Kidby (Illustrator)
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  • Hardcover: 158 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (31 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575077239
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575077232
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,916 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Post Office: this musty, dusty and sh***y organisation was jolted back into life in GOING POSTAL. Hidebound and rulebound, the Post Office is creaking towards a brave new world of efficiency - and it may even deliver the mail, too. But like all bureaucracies, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has its rules and regulations and these, together with the history of this once-great department, are highlighted and parodied in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook. How do you send eggs through the Post Office? What size envelope is banned? And what happens when snails start eating the mail? It's all here in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook and Diary 2007. * that's of the pigeon guano type, of course.

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Stephen Briggs lives in Oxford. As well as compiling THE DISCWORLD COMPANION and THE NEW DISCWORLD COMPANION, he has also co-authored the Discworld DIARIES, the MAPPS and has dramatised most of the Discworld novels. Paul Kidby discovered Terry Pratchett's Discworld in 1993 and since then has devoted his working life to the place. He is the illustrator of THE PRATCHETT PORTFOLIO, the bestsellers THE LAST HERO and THE ART OF DISCWORLD, as well as the Discworld DIARIES, cards, T-shirts, maps, mugs and, of course, the covers. Terry Pratchett lives in Wiltshire. His Discworld series is a publishing phenomenon. He was made an OBE in 1998. Paul Kidby lives in Hampshire. He is Pratchett's Discworld artist of choice, illustrator of the Number One bestseller THE LAST HERO. Stephen Briggs lives in Oxford. As well as compiling THE DISCWORLD COMPANIONs, he has also co-authored the Discworld DIARIES and the Graphic Novels and has dramatised most of the Discworld novels.

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210 of 217 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and fun too..., 1 Sep 2006
By P. Minto (UK) - See all my reviews
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A fully functioning diary, as with all preceding Discworld diaries of this manner, in exactly the format regular consumers of the Discworld Diaries should expect.

But, if a person unfamiliar with prior incarnations wants to know exactly what is contained (and is willing to accept the word of such a sycophantic fan of Discworld as I might be considered), then I would provide the following extended information:

Core contents are laid out as one week for each double page spread, four days to each side (final day of week being "Octeday", but not counted as a 'day of the month' so as to maintain consistency with our 'mundane' calendar that possesses only 7 days a week) with standard Roundworld event/phase of the moon/eclipse information unobtrusively mixed with humorous Discworld facts and artwork. A 2007 Year Planner can be found within the front cover for at-a-glance use and a 2008 Year Planner within the back cover for planning the year still to come.

Preceding the diary proper, there are 20-odd pages of text and artwork which convey (in typical Pratchettian/Kidbyesque manner) the 'facts' surrounding the past and present operations of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office itself, inclusive of a Personal Details section themed to the selfsame subject, much as prior years' diaries were themed and annotated towards their own assigned Discworld-related subjects.

In other words, as usable an A5-sized hardback diary as any you might find out there, with all the usual bells and whistles and an integrated 'bookmark-tassel'. And then you also have the added benefit of finely crafted humour and art upon the Discworld/Going Postal theme, running throughout. There's very little to lose, unless you just Don't Like Diaries or (inexplicably) Can't Stand Discworld, but I should be able to assume that if you are viewing this item then you (or at least the person you may be buying a gift for) cannot be totally and irredeemably hit by both of these impediments, and my recommendation would therefore be to consider this a perfectly viable purchase, whether for practical use or merely to supplement an existing Discworld collection.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 17 Feb 2008
By Susan Belcher "Su B" (St Helens, England) - See all my reviews
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I wasn't sure about this one, especially with it being so close on the heals of Going Postal, but being the obsessive Pratchett fan that I am I ordered it anyway.

I wasn't disappointed. As with the other Pratchett diaries it is full of wonderful titbits and illustrations. It is a great addition to Going Postal, adding extra details that were probably on Mr Pratchett's note pad when he wrote Going Postal the novel.

It's well worth the time (and money) of any Pratchett fan.

All this and a proper diary too.
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