{"product_id":"snuff-9780552166751","title":"Snuff","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighth \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebook of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC''s The Watch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnuff \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis entertaining, with all Pratchett''s genius on display'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCommander Sam Vimes\u003c\/b\u003e of the \u003cb\u003eAnkh-Morpork City Watch\u003c\/b\u003e is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Discworld is] Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...Where other writers are delighted if they come up with just a handful of comic figures with self-sustaining life in them - Don Quixote and Sancho, the three men in the boat, Pooh and Piglet and Eeyore - Pratchettt breeds them by the score...There's never been anything quite like it. -- Francis Spufford * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003ePratchett is a master storyteller. He is endlessly inventive...a master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a kind of insidious wisdom about human nature...I read his books at a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted. -- A. S. Byatt * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eTo keep it fresh into the 39th volume of a series deserves a knighthood...Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display. He still makes you care about his creations and, amid all the funnies, he can turn on the pathos. * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[\u003c\/b\u003ePratchett] is now so good at skewering the banalities and injustices of our world through his fantasy creation balanced on the back of a giant turtle that he could probably do it in his sleep...As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life either. A worthy addition to the Discworld canon. * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eIs there any sign of a falling-off in Sir Terry's extraordinary abilities? No. Not one. This is another brilliant, bravura command performance of comic fantasy. Terry Pratchett with Alzheimer's is still up there with PG Wodehouse. Amazing. Wonderful. Fantastic. -- Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735110398295,"sku":"9780552166751","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552166751.jpg?v=1723810028","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/snuff-9780552166751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}