Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)

Paperback Published on: 11/10/2012
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Moving Pictures
A Parody on the Film Industry
"Moving Pictures" is packed full of Pratchett's sly humour, as the film industry meets the Discworld. There's a lot of recognisable little nods and connect... READ MORE
Rebecca at East Kilbride
Moving Pictures
Superb
Cinema, but not as you know it.. The premise of this novel is great and the story is strong. The idea of Hollywood/the movies being its own kind of magic w... READ MORE
Grace At Birmingham

Synopsis

A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, a standalone Discworld novel.

'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer

‘Fantastic, funny fantasy from the master. I enjoyed it from start to finish’ 5-star reader review

'Holy wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.'

A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: moving pictures.

Created by the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork, the growing 'clicks' industry moves to the sandy land of Holy Wood, attracted by the light of the sun and some strange calling no one can quite put their finger on...

Also drawn to Holy Wood are aspiring young stars Victor Tugelbend, a wizarding student dropout, and Theda 'Ginger' Withel, a small-town girl with big dreams.

But behind the glitz and glamour of the clicks, a sinister presence lurks. Because belief is powerful in the Discworld, and sometimes downright dangerous...

The magic of movies might just unravel reality itself.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Moving Pictures is a standalone.

Praise for the Discworld series:

'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'Mail on Sunday

‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian

'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin

'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone’ Daily Express

‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Ben Aaronovitch

‘Masterful and brilliant’ Fantasy & Science Fiction

‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'The Times

‘The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph

‘Nothing short of magical’ Chicago Tribune

'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX

‘[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…There's never been anything quite like it’ Evening Standard

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780552166676
  • Number of pages: 400
  • Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 25 mm
  • Weight: 280g
  • Languages: English

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Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures
Unsurprisingly given the title of this book, this is Terry Pratchett taking on the film industry in his usual satirical manner. Pratchett manages to compre... READ MORE
Ecowitch
Moving Pictures
Good
Welcome to Holy wood in the terry Pratchett’s world the discworld
Freya Bradley
Moving Pictures
Decent
I came to the discworld series through my brother who recommended it after reading the first four books. When I read the colour of magic book 5 had just be... READ MORE
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