Book description
'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. Death is missing - presumed. er. gone
(and on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning
out to be really good with a scythe). Which leads to the kind of chaos
you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.
If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the
meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls.
There's no telling what might happen, particularly when they discover
that life really is only for the living...
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.
