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Snuff Paperback (2023)
£11
This is the countryside, after all. Everyone sees where you go and you never know who is behind a hedge.

And if you’re very unlucky, the person behind the hedge could have very unfriendly intentions. It may look idyllic, but the countryside isn’t all flowers and thatched cottages and bracing walks in your best tweed. Beneath the greenery lies a dark underbelly, and there’s something about rambling country houses that attracts dastardly plots and grisly murder. A challenge for any detective, but especially for one bred in the city who doesn’t understand the Way Things Are Done. In the countryside, people know their place, and everyone else’s place too, especially if it’s beneath their own. And they have some rather old fashioned ideas about people who are different from them.

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The Shepherd’s Crown – Paul Kidby Paperback Edition
£11
A SHIVERING OF WORLDS

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.

This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.

As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

There will be a reckoning . . .

THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL

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The Nac Mac Feegles’ Big Wee Alphabet Book – Hardback
£17
The Nac Mac Feegles’ Big Wee Alphabet Book
For Big Jobs and Wee Scunners Alike!

Ach, ye’ve come to the right place, ye wee scunner! If ye’re tired o’ borin’ old ABCs wi’ apples an’ balls an’ cats, then CRIVENS!, this is the book fer ye.

Straight from the chalk hills of Discworld, the Nac Mac Feegle (also known as the Wee Free Men) have taken over the alphabet and turned it into a glorious riot of blue-skinned, kilt-wearing, permanently fighting-drunk mayhem.

Join Rob Anybody, Big Yan, Daft Wullie, and the rest of the Chalk Hill Clan as they guide you through every letter the Feegle way. Expect:

C is for Crivens!
R is for Rob Anybody! (the Big Man of the Chalk Hill Clan! The smartest, toughest, bravest Feeble of them all!)
I is for Inna-pro-pree-ate behaviour! (A term often used about, but seldomly, Feegles.)
V is for Verra! (Very.)
E is for Explainin’ (Lying.)
N is for Nae Problemo! (‘No-problem’. Please note: this is not always strictly true.)
S is for Ship! (Woolly thing that eats grass and goes baa. Easily confused with other kind.)

Each page bursts with the glorious, irreverent humour only Terry Pratchett could inspire, packed with classic Feegle slang, favourite sayings and sentences so full of mischief. It will having you laughing out loud. Beautifully illustrated by the talented David Wyatt, every spread is a riot of colour, tattoos, sporrans and tiny terrors causing chaos.

Crafted by Ian Mitchell at the Discworld Emporium, this hardback gem is the perfect introduction to the Nac Mac Feegle for young readers (wee scunners) and a joyful treat for seasoned Discworld fans (big jobs) who’ve followed Tiffany Aching’s adventures in The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and beyond.

Why you should add this to yer hoard right now:
- A Discworld Emporium publication — nae king, nae quin, just pure Feegle fun!
- Ideal gift for birthdays, Hogswatch or any occasion that needs more CRIVENS!
- Hardback edition built to survive a Feegle raid (mostly…)
- 66 glorious pages of alphabet-learnt mischief
Nae coo was harmed in the makin’ o’ this book (well, maybe one or two were mildly inconvenienced).

Get yer copy before the Feegles nick it fer the hoard!
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The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume Two
£30
Containing material unavailable for twenty years — this is a comprehensive guide to the capital city of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork’s secrets, societies and guilds.

Ankh-Morpork is a bottomless pit of secrets. It’s time to unearth a few more . . .

In the second volume of this confidential guide, brave travellers are made privy to the inner workings of more illustrious Ankh-Morpork societies.

Disabuse yourself of notions of professionalism under which you may hold the City Watch; discover what serious business is undertaken by the Fools’ Guild (joking is no laughing matter); and, should you be lucky, achieve true enlightenment through the teachings of Lu-Tze.

One thing’s for sure: after you’ve read this book, Ankh-Morpork’s Guilds are going to need to come up with new ways of doing things.

Completely revamped and redesigned, this full-colour book contains material from Discworld Diaries across the decades.

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The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One
£30
Think you know Ankh-Morpork? Think again.

In this top-secret guide, travellers will receive a first-hand experience of the real city. If you’ve ever wondered where Unseen University students wet their whistles (while managing to avoid their teachers doing the same), or just what the Assassins’ Guild constitutes a proper means of inhumation – there are standards to be upheld, after all – then this is the book for you.

That’s right, have yourselves a peek into the inner workings of city’s societies. Cut the chaff, glimpse behind the curtain, see how the sausage gets made . . . err, you get the idea.

Just don’t let the Thieves’ Guild catch you with this book. They won’t appreciate their methods being flogged behind their back. Flogging’s their job.

Completely revamped and redesigned, this full-colour book contains material from Discworld Diaries across the decades.

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Snuff Collectors Library Edition
£15
The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
‘The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.’
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies – and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches; and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
Vimes is about to uncover the exception.

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PRE-ORDER – Tales of Mistletoe and Mischief – Paperback
£9
PRE-ORDER – RELEASE DATE 24TH SEPTEMBER

A 4-in-1 story collection of festive stories.

With full-colour illustrations, this book is perfect for introducing young readers to the festive world of master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett. Discover four festive and funny tales of yuletide computers and abominable snow-babies!

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Raising Steam Paperback (2023)
£11
‘Everybody wanted the railway close, oh yes please, but not so close that they could hear it or smell it’

It’s only in dictatorships that the trains run on time. Everywhere else, signal failures, leaves on the line, the wrong type of snow and the wrong type of sunlight make departure and arrival times just a nice, idealistic theory. So when it becomes a matter of life and death to get a train somewhere on time, the odds don’t look good – especially if that somewhere is a completely new destination. The only thing that upsets people more than railway delays, after all, is building more railway. Past their back gardens. And some of those people will go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks…

‘British fiction’s most brilliant satire on contemporary life.’ — Telegraph

‘The most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies…at once hilariously cynical and idealistically practical.’ — Independent

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The Folklore of Discworld Paperback
£10
Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the…

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Good Omens – Paperback
£10
‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right’ People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions…

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Turtle Recall Paperback
£10
The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A’Tuin, as it slowly swims through space.

It is also a global publishing phenomenon with sales of over 70 million books worldwide (but who’s counting?). The publication of SNUFF brought the Discworld canon to 39 books – not including the various guides, mapps, diaries and other side-projects. That’s a lot of Discworld to keep track of – more than most people can manage with just the one head – but fear not: help is at hand!

If you’re looking for the ultimate authority on probably the most heavily populated – certainly the most hilarious – setting in fantasy literature…
If you need a handy guide to Discworld locales from Ankh-Morpork to Zemphis…
If you want help telling Achmed the Mad from Jack Zweiblumen…
If your life depends on being able to distinguish the Agatean Empire from the Zoons…

…look no further than THE COMPLETE DISCWORLD COMPANION – now fully updated and completely up to SNUFF!

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The Discworld Graphic Novels Hardback
£20
Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. The Discworld is a place (and a time) parallel to our own – but also very different. That is the setting for Terry Pratchett’s phenomenally successful Discworld series, which now celebrates its 25th anniversary.

The Discworld Graphic Novels presents the very first two volumes of this much-loved series in graphic novel form. First published fifteen years ago, these fully illustrated versions are now issued for the first time in hardback. Introduced here are the bizarre misadventures of Twoflower, the Discworld’s first ever tourist, and possibly – portentously – its last, and his guide Rincewind, the spectacularly inept wizard.Not to mention the Luggage, which has a mind of its own.

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The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld – Paperback
£10
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. Guaranteed to transport you back to your favourite or forgotten Discworld moments it is the perfect book for die-hard Pratchett fans, as well as anyone coming to…

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Wintersmith
£10
When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to young witch Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. For ever.

It will take all the young witch’s skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. Because if Tiffany doesn’t make it to Spring – Spring won’t come.

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SEQUENCE

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Raising Steam Collectors Library Edition
£15
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork – a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it’s soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.
Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work – as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital . . . but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don’t always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse . . .
Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi’ t’flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he’s going to stop it all going off the rails . . .

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The World of Poo – Hardback
£15
From Snuff: ‘Vimes’ prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick.

The bit about sailing down the river almost made him smile. But interspersed with the scatology was actually quite interesting stuff about septic tanks and dunnakin divers and gongfermors and how dog muck helped make the very best leather, and other things that you never thought you would need to know, but once heard somehow lodged in your mind.’

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