The Wee Free Men: 30 (Discworld Novels) - Hardcover

Terry Pratchett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385605331 ISBN 13: 9780385605335

Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books, 2003

Synopsis

Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk's no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new 'hag'. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'. Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies-

About this title

About the Author

Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer. Occasionally, these days, it answers back. www.terrypratchett.co.uk @terryandrob

From the Back Cover

There s trouble on the Aching farm a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching s little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies (although Tiffany doesn t think this is entirely a bad thing).
Tiffany s got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny s magic book (well, Diseases of the Sheep, actually) and
Crivens! Whut aboot us, ye daftie!
oh, yes. She s also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin , thievin , tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly . . .
A wise, witty and wonderfully inventive adventure set in the Discworld®.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385605331
• ISBN 13: 9780385605335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320