At the insistence of… his wife, Lady Sybil? Or is it his boss, Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork…? Well, at someone’s insistence, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes is taking a two-week vacation. To sweeten the deal, Sybil and Young Sam, their son, will be coming with him. They are headed for The Ramkin's ancestral country seat. … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 39: Snuff
Category: Mystery
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 29: Night Watch
His Grace, Commander Samuel Vimes is pursuing Carcer, a cold-hearted killer. However, it’s also the eve of the birth of his first child and the 30th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution Of The Twenty-Fifth of May, a people’s uprising that happened during a brief period of turmoil in the city of Ankh-Morpork’s recent past. During … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 29: Night Watch
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 25: The Truth
Terry Pratchett hadn’t written a novel that didn’t feature a Wizard, Witch, Watchman or Death since Soul Music, so when The Truth was published, featuring the exploits of William de Worde as he sets up the city of Ankh-Morpork’s first proper newspaper, it was a breath of fresh air. William didn’t come out of nowhere, … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 25: The Truth
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 24: The Fifth Elephant
Long ago, it is said, there was a fifth elephant perched atop the shell of Great A’Tuin. But it fell into space and came crashing down in the wilds of Uberwald, providing the later inhabitants with a vast supply of raw fat to be mined for their future profit. Thousands of years later, Commander Samuel … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 24: The Fifth Elephant
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 19: Feet Of Clay
This 19th Discworld novel begins with some golems building a king for themselves and Commander Vimes creating a coat of arms for himself, as befits a man who has recently married into the aristocracy. It gets progressively less normal after that. Feet Of clay is the 19th Discworld novel and the third Watch novel. As … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 19: Feet Of Clay
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 15: Men At Arms
After their triumph in Guards! Guards!, Captain Samuel Vimes and his squad of watchmen are on the up and up. Lord Vetinari has charged Vimes with the task of recruiting more watchmen… but there’s a catch: Vetinari is insistent that they need to be representative of all the races resident in Ankh-Morpork. So Vimes recruits … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 15: Men At Arms
The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 8: Guards! Guards!
For new readers this is a great jumping-on point because the world is quite well-established (it’s the eighth book) but we aren’t presented with anything that requires a big load of exposition as to what has gone before. It’s also the longest novel in the series so far, with a lot of near-future volumes finding … Continue reading The Great Discworld Retrospective No. 8: Guards! Guards!
A Book Ian Likes: The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
A police detective is laid-up in hospital after capturing a villain and to wile away the time he devotes himself to solving one of the most famous mysteries in history: what happened to the princes in the tower? At first, Alan Grant (the detective and possibly Ms Tey's most famous character) finds himself following the … Continue reading A Book Ian Likes: The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey
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