Book description
Scarcely a year on from the events of Guards! Guards!, the
Ankh-Morpork City Night Watch find their services are once more needed
to tackle a threat to their city. A threat at least as deadly as a
60-foot dragon, but mechanical and heartless to boot. It kills without
compunction. It is the first gun on the Discworld.
The original Watch - Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Carrot
and Corporal Nobbs - are joined by some new recruits, selected to
reflect the city's ethnic make-up - Lance-Constable Cuddy (a dwarf),
Detritus (a troll) and Angua (a w..., well, best to find out for yourself).
Biography for Stephen Briggs
Terry Pratchett is fifty and lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire,
where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write.
He used to grow carnivorous plants but now they've taken over the
greenhouse and he avoids going in. He feels it may be time to get a
life, since apparently they're terribly useful. Carpe Jugulum is the
twenty-third novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Biography for Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today.
He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to
get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three
already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the
phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young
readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a
spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children,
THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001
Carnegie Medal.
