Book description
Terry Pratchett's infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from
a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of
malcontented tradesmen.
Defending Ank-Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid,
undervalued City Night Watch - a drunken and world-weary Captain, a
cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal of
dubious parentage...and their newest recruit, Lance Constable Carrot,
who is upright, literal, law-abiding and keen. Aiding them in their
fight for truth, justice and the Ankh-Morporkian way are a small swamp
dragon and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be
an orang-utan).
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.
