The Last Continent: (Discworld Novel 22)

Hardback Published on: 20/10/2016
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The Last Continent
Crikey!
This is such good fun. Rincewind is stuck on a continent (very much like Australia) that doesn’t have any rain, his job is to try and bring the rain back. ... READ MORE
Grace At Birmingham

Synopsis

A special hardback gift edition of classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the sixth book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.

'A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair' Time Out

‘One of Sir Terry's best... written, like all of his works, with humour, intelligence, and kindness’ 5-star reader review

'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'

Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld's last continent.

It's hot. It's dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?

And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can't even spell wizard.

Still . . . no worries, eh?

The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

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: 9780857524140
  • Number of pages: 416
  • Dimensions: 205 x 136 x 36 mm
  • Weight: 434g
  • Languages: English

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The Last Continent
Very funny
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
Book collector
The Last Continent
Rincewind has done it again
I have nearly read all the Discworld novels I also liked the talking kangaroo it brought lots of humour into the novel
Freya Bradley