{"product_id":"monstrous-regiment-discworld-novel-31-9781804990513","title":"Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the small yet aggressive country of Borogravia, there are strict rules citizens must follow. For a start, women belong in the kitchen - not in jobs, pubs, or indeed trousers. And certainly not on the front line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Going to war however, is not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of a losing battle. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's time to make a stand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Discworld novels can be read in any order but \u003cb\u003eMonstrous Regiment \u003c\/b\u003eis a standalone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Not since Evelyn Waugh's novel Officers and Gentlemen has conflict faced such thoroughly cutting questioning...A great piece of writing, akin to Jonathan Swift' * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003e'You ride along on his tide of out-landish invention, realizing that you are in the presence of a true original among contemporary writers - a fantasist who loves naff humour and silly names, and yet whose absurd world is, at heart, a serious portrait of the jingoistic fears that keep us at each other's throats' * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e'It's powerful stuff, and one of his best' * Starburst *\u003cbr\u003eLike Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences * New York Times *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741913985367,"sku":"9781804990513","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804990513.jpg?v=1720059285","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/monstrous-regiment-discworld-novel-31-9781804990513","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}