The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy

The Guardian

Simply gripping story-telling

The Times

Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad

Debi Gliori, Daily Telegraph

An astonishing novel...I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places

Financial Times

Great yarn written in fairly simple text

Liverpool Echo

Will take you on a fantastic journey... wonderful, funny and gripping.

Kids Alive

Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.

Kirkus

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of... stuff one can find in a Terry Pratchett book

The Book Smugglers

Amazing Maurice has one of the most satisfying and effective endings in the series!

Reading Bug

Humour, humour and more humour, an utterly unpredictable plot, interesting rats - err, characters - and a profound denoument, this is Discworld at its best.

Speculation

An enticing and occasionally gory introduction to the master of flat earth . . . proves that the Pied Piper of Hamelin was a front for an insider-dealing scam . . . alongside the gags and pest-control politics, there are enough complex ideas about nature, nurture and understanding to satisfy a wide audience

Observer

One of Terry Pratchett's funniest creations of recent years . . . It all adds up to a wonderful book - hilarious, brilliantly constructed and, especially towards its conclusion, shot through with an edginess to balance the laughs

SFX

The humour is sophisticated and demands that the reader keep up to speed. A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages

Daily Telegraph

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated

Guardian

An astonishing novel . . . I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places . . . Were Terry not demonstrably a master craftsman already, The Amazing Maurice might be considered his masterpiece

Financial Times

Razor-sharp satire . . . excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent

Kirkus Reviews

A brilliant and bizarre reworking of that well-known folk tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin

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