Book description
'What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real
work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find
the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.'
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... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the
human race for shoving).
And they need all the help they can get, because someone in
Ankh-Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas - about crowns and
legendary swords, and destiny. And the problem with destiny is, of
course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger.
One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not
spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the
big job, like saving the world...
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.
