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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407070506
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents




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Join the world of The Amazing Maurice, the Carnegie Medal winning novel by Terry Pratchett.

Even wizards produce leftovers.

But a wizard's rubbish is laced with magic, and for the rats that forage this rubbish, the magic has changed them - they can speak and read, and have rather grand ambitions for a comfortable retirement.

Which is perfect for a con-cat like Maurice. He has his own magical talents, and wants to get rich quick. Together with the rats, and young Keith, the 'piper', they work the towns to create their very own plague of rats - then lure them away for cash.

But in the run-down town Bad Blintz, this little con goes wrong, and suddenly these educated rodents aren't playing to the piper's tune . . .

'An astonishing novel' Financial Times

  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407070506
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

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 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy

The Guardian

Simply gripping story-telling

The Times

Powerful, passionate, mordantly funny and, at one point, unbearably sad

Debi Gliori, Daily Telegraph

An astonishing novel...I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places

Financial Times

Great yarn written in fairly simple text

Liverpool Echo

Will take you on a fantastic journey... wonderful, funny and gripping.

Kids Alive

Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.

Kirkus

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of... stuff one can find in a Terry Pratchett book

The Book Smugglers

Amazing Maurice has one of the most satisfying and effective endings in the series!

Reading Bug

Humour, humour and more humour, an utterly unpredictable plot, interesting rats - err, characters - and a profound denoument, this is Discworld at its best.

Speculation

An enticing and occasionally gory introduction to the master of flat earth . . . proves that the Pied Piper of Hamelin was a front for an insider-dealing scam . . . alongside the gags and pest-control politics, there are enough complex ideas about nature, nurture and understanding to satisfy a wide audience

Observer

One of Terry Pratchett's funniest creations of recent years . . . It all adds up to a wonderful book - hilarious, brilliantly constructed and, especially towards its conclusion, shot through with an edginess to balance the laughs

SFX

The humour is sophisticated and demands that the reader keep up to speed. A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages

Daily Telegraph

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated

Guardian

An astonishing novel . . . I marvelled at the ferociousness of the humour, and the willingness to go into dark places . . . Were Terry not demonstrably a master craftsman already, The Amazing Maurice might be considered his masterpiece

Financial Times

Razor-sharp satire . . . excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent

Kirkus Reviews

A brilliant and bizarre reworking of that well-known folk tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin

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