Hogfather: Discworld: The Death Collection - Hardcover

Pratchett, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147320013X ISBN 13: 9781473200135

Publisher: Gollancz, 2013

Synopsis

IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH AND IT'S TOO QUIET.

Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...

Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...

The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).

As they say: You'd better watch out...

About this title

Review:

What could more genuinely embody the spirit of Christmas (or Hogswatch, on the Discworld) than a Terry Pratchett book about the holiday season? Every secular Christmas tradition is included. But as this is the 21st Discworld novel, there are some unusual twists.

This year the Auditors, who want people to stop believing in things that aren't real, have hired an assassin to eliminate the Hogfather. (You know him: red robe, white beard, says, "Ho, ho, ho!") Their evil plot will destroy the Discworld unless someone covers for him. So someone does. Well, at least Death tries. He wears the costume and rides the sleigh drawn by four jolly pigs: Gouger, Tusker, Rooter and Snouter. He even comes down chimneys. But as fans of other Pratchett stories about Death know, he takes things literally. He gives children whatever they wish for and appears in person at Crumley's in The Maul.

Fans will welcome back Susan, Death of Rats (the Grim Squeaker), Albert and the wizardly faculty of Unseen University and revel in new personalities like Bilious, the "oh god of Hangovers." But you needn't have read Pratchett before to laugh uproariously and think seriously about the meanings of Christmas. --Nona Vero, Amazon.com

Review:

A sequence of unalloyed delight. - Guardian He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style. - Daily Telegraph His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction. - Mail on Sunday Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own. - Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 147320013X
• ISBN 13: 9781473200135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368