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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407034966
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Interesting Times




The seventeenth Discworld novel and fifth in the Wizards series - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans.

'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .' This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld. Especially for the magically challenged Rincewind, who has already had far too much excitement in his life.

Unfortunately, the unlucky wizard always seems to end up in the middle of, well, absolutely everything. So when a request for a 'Great Wizzard' arrives from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's obviously Rincewind who's sent. For one thing, he's the only one who spells wizard that way.

Once again Rincewind is thrown headfirst into a dangerous adventure. For the oldest empire on the Disc is in turmoil and Chaos is building. And, for some reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a vital role in the coming war . . .
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Interesting Times
is the fifth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407034966
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
Categories:

About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry 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. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Praise for Interesting Times

Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own

The Sunday Times

Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre

Observer

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