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  • Published: 4 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9781407031859
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 20 min
  • Narrator: Tony Robinson
  • RRP: $17.99

Wintersmith

(Discworld Novel 35)




The third tale in a gloriously inventive fantasy sequence of tales about Tiffany Aching - young witch - and the Nac Mac Feegle - the Wee Free Men.

Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake . . .

And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're 13, but also just a little bit . . . cool.

And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting your chores. So Tiffany must look after Miss Treason, who's 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath -

'Crivens!'

Oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles - whether she wants it or not.

But if Tiffany doesn't work it all out, there will never be another springtime . . .

  • Published: 4 January 2007
  • ISBN: 9781407031859
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 4 hr 20 min
  • Narrator: Tony Robinson
  • RRP: $17.99

About the authors

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.

terrypratchett.co.uk

Paul Kidby

Paul Kidby is thirty-four and lives behind an easel in Dorset. He is best-known for his illustrations of Discworld and its inhabitants in The Pratchett Portfolio, The Discworld Diaries, The Tourist Guide to Lancre and his prints and greeting cards.

Praise for Wintersmith

Pratchett's one-liners, the comic dialogue of the Feegles, the satire about teenagers and the credulousness of the ordinary folk make for a characteristically entertaining mix

The Sunday Times

Terry Pratchett kicks the bejaysus out of JK Rowling . . . If you haven't read Pratchett before then give yourself a treat and buy this book

In Dublin

Exhuberant energy and humour

The Children's Bookseller

Charming in every sense of the word. Beautifully written and at times highly comic, it is an extraordinary achievement

Books for Keeps

Sure to be as popular with both children and adults as all his other books

Croydon Advertiser

Lively wit, sly wisdom and compelling narratives

Leicester Mercury

Pratchett's usual mix of uproarious comedy and deceptively serious thought

Southern Daily Echo

He's probably the funniest writer in English today . . . great themes with huge doses of comedy

South Wales Evening Post

Funny and winning as ever

Nottingham Evening Post

Crackles with energy and humour

Leicester Mercury

In every sense fantastic

Independent

Terry Pratchett kicks the bejaysus out of JK Rowling...If you haven't read Pratchett before then give yourself a treat and buy this book.

In Dublin

Exuberant energy and humour...

Children's Bookseller

Sure to be as popular with both children and adults as all his other books.

Croydon Advertiser

Wintersmith is not written and does not read as a "young adult" book, and succeeds all the more for that. Very enjoyable.

Dreamwatch

[The Discworld books] have retained the lively wit, sly wisdom and compelling narratives

Leicester Mercury

Pratchett's one-liners, the comic dialogue of the Feegles, the satire about teenagers and the credulousness of the ordinary folk make for a characteristically entertaining mix.

Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times

...Pratchett's usual mix of uproarious comedy and deceptively serious thought...

Alex Sarll, Southern Daily Echo

He's probably the funniest writer in English today....great themes with huge doses of comedy.

Chris Poole, South Wales Evening Post

...bookshelves everywhere would be poorer without the Discworld.

The Western Mail

Funny and winning as ever.

Nottingham Evening Post

...charming in every sense of the word. Beautifully written and at times highly comic, it is an extraordinary achievement...

Books for Keeps

...crackles with energy and humour.

Leicester Mercury

A new Terry Pratchett is always a big event and true-to-form Wintersmith is crackling with energy and humour.

Greenock Telegraph

Pratchett fans would love to find this under the Christmas tree.

Caroline Franklin, Newbury Weekly News

...a delightful tale...

The Lady

Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters

Independent on Sunday

...wonderfully inventive...

Liverpool Echo

This is a really good book!

Sigurd Torsteinson, Craigmount High, Teen Titles

Wintersmith is an entertaining mix of comic characters, clever diaogue and great atmosphere. It is a witty fantasy read with heights of imaginative writing that few authors can reach. There is real magic at work in Wintersmith.

Sunday Morning Post