Book description
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look
after you.'
Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like
Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless
country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to
stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead
father.
He'd had the best education money could buy of course, but
unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did
not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...
Terry Pratchett
is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series,
the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling
books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he
is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal and the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, as well as being
awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his
books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into
thirty-seven languages.
