"His spectacular creative orientation makes the Discworld series one of the enduring joys of modern literature" - Mail on Sunday

NAMED IN THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS

Discworld is very similar to ours - if our world was a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants, standing on the back of a giant turtle... In the beginning, there was... a turtle.

Somewhere on the border between thought and reality is Discworld, a parallel time and space dimension that may sound and smell very similar to ours but looks entirely different. Especially as it is carried through space on the back of a giant turtle (fertility unknown). It plays by different rules.

Some may be the same everywhere. The very existence of the Disc is threatened by a peculiar new disease: its first tourist, on whose survival depends the peace and prosperity of the land. Unfortunately, the person tasked with ensuring this survival against robbers, mercenaries, and, after all, Death, is a spectacularly incompetent wizard.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but "The Colour of Magic" is the first book in the Magic series.

Pages: 288, Dimensions: 12.7x12.7cm