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  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990667
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $26.00

Night Watch

(Discworld Novel 29)




The twenty-ninth Discworld novel and sixth in the City Watch series - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans.

'DON'T PUT YOUR TRUST IN REVOLUTIONS. THEY ALWAYS COME ROUND AGAIN. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED REVOLUTIONS. PEOPLE DIE, AND NOTHING CHANGES.'

The twenty-fifth of May is an important, sombre day in Ankh-Morpork - the anniversary of one of the city's bloodiest rebellions.

But crime stops for nothing, as Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch knows. When a notorious serial killer emerges from hiding, the chase leads the Watch to the roofs of Unseen University where a magical storm is brewing. It's a case of wrong place, very wrong time.

For Vimes finds himself back in his own rough, tough past with only a killer for company and a city on the brink of revolution to contend with. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.

And get back to the future before his wife gives birth, of course.

All in a day's work ...

'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFX

Night Watch is the sixth book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990667
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $26.00

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About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Praise for Night Watch

'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time'

SFX

'He is a satirist of enormous talent... His jokes slide under your skin as swiftly as a hypodermic syringe, leaving you giggling helplessly'

The Times

Terry Pratchett is one of the great inventors of secondary - or imaginative or alternative - worlds. He has the real energy of the primary storyteller

The Times

He would be amusing in any form, and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction

Mail on Sunday

He will remain an enduring, endearing presence in comic literature

Guardian