Carpe JugulumAseize the throatAis the motto of the family of "vampyres" who attempt a hospitable takeover of the kingdom of Lancre in Pratchett`s 23rd Discworld novel. When the goodhearted king invited the Magpyrs to...
"Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren`t there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?... "When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork...
This is where the dragons went. They dead, not asleep, And although the space they occupy isn`t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you...
Superficially, John Keller - the urban lonely guy of assassins - leads a normal life despite his profession. He has an office manager, the breezily efficient Dot, who organises his `jobs` and who reassures his...
Being trained by the Assassin`s Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father...
"Death has to happen. That’s what bein’ alive is all about. You’re alive, and then you’re dead. It can’t just stop happening." But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical...
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying,...
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we`d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth wizard source of...
Terry Pratchett`s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and...
When Death takes her fairy godmother, Princess Emberella is left in the care of her other not-so-good-and-wise godmother. It`s up to the three witches - Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg - to hop on...
