Raising Steam, 9780857526502
Hardcover
Discworld steams ahead, Moist must save the railways or die.

Raising Steam

(discworld novel 40)

$28.00

  • Hardcover

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    18 November 2019

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Summary

All Aboard! Danger on the Discworld Railway

The Discworld’s first train is here, and Moist von Lipwig is about to have a very bad day in this final adult novel of Terry Pratchett’s legendary Discworld series.

Moist von Lipwig, reformed con man and head of the Royal Bank and Post Office, is given a new task by Lord Vetinari: oversee the introduction of the city’s brand-new steam locomotive, the Iron Girder.

But not everyone is happy about this new technology. Moist mu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857526502
ISBN-10:0857526502
Series:Discworld Novels
Author:Terry Pratchett
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Doubleday
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:18 November 2019
Weight:485g
Dimensions:203mm x 130mm x 40mm
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Critics Review

Laugh-out-loud funny…A chuffing wonderful book. * SFX *Terry Pratchett’s creation is still going strong after 30 years as Ankh-Morpork branches into the railway age…There are sly nods to the history of railways and a cheeky reference to The Railway Children. Most aficionados, however, will be on the look-out for in-jokes and references from previous novels – of which there is no shortage…It is at the level of the sentence that Pratchett wins his fans. * The Times *The genius of Pratchett is that he never goes for the straight allegory…he remains one of the most consistently funny writers around; a master of the stealth simile, the time-delay pun and the deflationary three-part list…I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their e-readers by the bouts of spontaneous laughter. – Ben Aaronovitch * The Guardian *

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 which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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