Eric
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Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker.
Pity he's not very good at it.
All he wants is three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world,
have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff.
But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent
wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel
accessory known as the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space
and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he'd
never been born.
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Moving Pictures
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The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But
what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing.
Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a
little town you've probably never heard of") to find out ...
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Reaper Man
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Death is missing
Presumed ... er ... gone.
Which leads to the kind of chaos to always expect when an important public
service is withdrawn. Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist
Reg Shoe - "You Don't Have to Take This Lying Down" - suddenly has more work
than he had ever dreamed of. And newly deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin
to find that he has come back as a corpse. But it's up to Windle and the members of
Ankh-Morpork's rather unfrightening group of undead to save the world for the living.
Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall, dark stranger is turning out to be
really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be got in. And a different battle to be
fought.
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Witches Abroad
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It seemed an easy job ... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a
servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny
Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that
simple ... For one thing, all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a
second-hand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. And they're up against the malignant
power of the Godmother herself, who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse. And finally
there's the sheer power of the Story. Servant girls have to marry the Prince.
That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least - up until now ...
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Small Gods
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Brutha is the Chosen One. His god has spoken to him, admittedly while currently in the
shape of a tortoise. Brutha is a simple lad. He can't read. He can't write. He's pretty
good at growing melons. And his wants are few. He wants to overthrow a huge and corrupt
church. He wants to prevent a horrible holy war. He wants to stop the persecution of a
philosopher who has dared to suggest that, contrary to the Church's dogma, the Discworld
really does go through space on the back of an enormous turtle. He wants peace and
justice and brotherly love. He wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please.
But most of all, what he really wants, more than anything else, is for his god to Choose
Someone Else ...
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Lords and Ladies
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It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the
mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be
married in the morning...
Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got
drunk on a fairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things traditionally
associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice and
evil, evil murder.
Granny Weatherwax and her tiny argumentative coven have really got their work cut
out this time...
With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris Dancers and one orang-utan.
And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
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Men at Arms
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"Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!"
But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable
Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman
... well, most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).
And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil in the air and murder afoot
and something very nasty in the streets.
It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is
officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married.
And since this is Ankh-Morpork, noon promises to be not just high, but stinking.
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Soul Music
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Other children got given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his
vest off.
Yes. There's a Death in the family.
It's hard to grown up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe
- especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for
the Tooth Fairy.
And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered the
Discworld.
It's Lawless. It changes people.
It's called Music with Rocks In.
It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but ...
It's alive.
And it won't fade away.
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