Pyramids Av Terry Pratchett

<p><b>A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, a standalone <i>Discworld</i> novel.</b><br><br>''Pratchett remains a<b> consistently clever, charming </b>and<b> funny </b>voice'' <i>Independent</i><br><br>‘One of my <b>favourite</b> Discworld books’ 5-star reader review<br><br><i>''"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."''</i><br><br><b>Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his desert homeland to the city of Ankh-Morpork for the best education money can buy.</b><br><br>Which just so happens to be at the Assassins'' Guild.<br><br>But when Teppic''s father dies suddenly, fate takes him away from assassination to something far more unsavoury: politics. Teppic returns home to the small, penniless kingdom of Djelibeybi to take his place as ruler.<br><br>It isn''t easy, being a teenage pharaoh. As tradition dictates, the new king must build a monumental pyramid to honour his dead father.<br><br><b>But this one might just bankrupt the kingdom, and warp the very fabric of time and space itself . . .</b><br><br><i>The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but </i>Pyramids<i> is a standalone.</i><br><br><u>Praise for the <i>Discworld</i> series:</u><br><br>''[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series <b>one of the perennial joys of modern fiction''</b> <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br>‘Pratchett is <b>a master storyteller</b>’ <i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>''One of our greatest fantasists, </b>and beyond a doubt<b> the funniest'' </b>George R.R. Martin<br><br>''One of those rare writers who<b> appeals to everyone</b>’ <i>Daily Express</i><br><br><b>‘One of the most consistently funny writers </b>around’ Ben Aaronovitch<br><br>‘<b>Masterful and brilliant</b>’ <i>Fantasy & Science Fiction</i><br><br>‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he <b>is a satirist of enormous talent</b> ... <b>incredibly funny</b> ... <b>compulsively readable''</b> <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘The <b>best humorous English author</b> since P.G. Wodehouse''<i> The Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>‘Nothing short of <b>magical</b>’ <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>''Consistently <b>funny</b>, consistently <b>clever</b> and consistently <b>surprising</b> in its twists and turns'' <i>SFX</i><br><br>‘[Discworld is] <b>compulsively readable, fantastically inventive</b>, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…<b>There''s never been anything quite like it</b>’ <i>Evening Standard</i></p>